She became pregnant and had an abortion.Īt 21, bored with life in Rock Island, she departed for Philadelphia, where she became a postulant (novice) at the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart convent. She was a model Christian girl, but she dated boys, and had her heart broken. She regularly prayed for the sick and the needy. She would help the elderly and those even poorer than her. Divine did not drink, smoke, curse or gamble. Religion was not a significant part of her upbringing, but when she reached her teens it started to dominate her every thought. She described her father as a "hillbilly, banjo-playing lumberjack." She was a straight-A student until she hit puberty. As Al Goldstein said, her act "was unbelievably disgusting, so naturally, we made her our symbol." She was the only female associated with SCREW over any period of time.īorn in Rock Island, Illinois, Divine was the tenth in a family of fourteen children. She is particularly associated with SCREW, for whom she was a sort of mascot. According to Bruce David, editor of SCREW in the 1970s, then editor of Hustler, she was at one point the best-known stripper in the United States. Her specialty was inserting and ejecting things from her vagina onstage when she performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, she was described in the program as "vaginiste", a performer using the vagina. Honeysuckle Divine (born Betty Jane Allsup January 21, 1938) is a retired American stripper, erotic performance artist, and sexual columnist.
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