EXCLUSIVE - Miss Bumbum model who nearly died from botched cosmetic ops reveals her sordid life as a £7,000 an hour 'luxury hooker'... and the 'truth' about her alleged 'affair' with Cristiano Ronaldo
Prostitute: Here Andressa poses at the first brothel she worked in as she readies herself for Carnival
Slippery slope: At 21 she was a
struggling single mother and contacted a strip club to become an erotic
dancer. Before long the money she was offered for sex sucked her into a
life on the game
'I
never knew any of the contacts in advance, but I took on the risk
anyway. Each meeting earned me between 10,000 and 15,000 reals
(£2000-£3,500).
'One
of them, who was insatiable, paid me 30,000 reals (£7,000) for one hour
of pleasure. I had become a product which was always available.'
Andressa
also reveals she was abused from the age of three by a man called
grandfather, lost her virginity to a relative at the age of 14, and
first started working as a prostitute in a downtown brothel in her home
city of Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, at the age of 21.
She also writes of how her near-fatal ordeal last year wasn't the first time she had stared death in the face.
Once,
already submerged in the world of street prostitution, she and another
call girl were forced to kneel on the floor of a sex motel by a
drugged-up gang boss who, pressing a revolver against Andressa's
forehead, shouted that they 'deserved to die'.
On
another occasion, a violent client, the owner of a car dealership chain
in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, left her unconscious in another
motel after pinning her down on the bed and punching her in the face.
The
players were the same. They all drank a lot of whisky in the hot tub
and, when it came to the sauna bath, there was group sex
And
she also reveals how she had suffered three drugs overdoses in her
life, two during rave parties while she was still a teenager, and the
third in 2011 at the party of a well-known millionaire playboy on his
Rio de Janeiro yacht, where she spent the night consuming a mix of LSD,
crystal meth and alcohol, while sniffing glue from a energy drink can.
As
she sought the spotlight in an incessant pursuit of fame and notoriety,
Andressa's price-tag grew - and so did the list of rich and famous
clients who requested her services.
Before
long, according to the model, she was the preferred object of desire of
many well-known footballing idols on Brazil's national side.
In
July 2012, while she was still preparing to compete in the Miss Bumbum
final, she travelled to London where a 'famous athlete' from Brazil's
first squad had agreed to pay her €4,000 (£2,800) to spend five days
with him.
The footballer had also paid for her flights, a luxury hotel and all others expenses during her trip.
She
recalls: 'The deal started with a private conversation on Facebook. He
said he was married and had children, but found me very attractive. He
asked for absolute discretion before, during and after our days together
in England.
'One of his private aides picked me up from the airport and watched over me during the whole trip.
'"Is
it always like this?" I asked him. "Yes", he replied. "Every month he
invites some Brazilian female friends and makes sure they are treated
with care and attention." "And his wife?" I asked, curious. "She doesn't
suspect anything. She looks after the children. We set up everything
just right so nothing goes wrong", he explained.'
Shot to fame: Andressa's fame rocketed
after she came second in Brazil's Miss Bumbum competition. She claims
that on March 19, 2013, she received an unexpected phone call from
Cristiano Ronaldo, who had been passed her number by two close friends.
'Are you really Miss Bumbum of Brazil?' he asked. 'Do you have the most
beautiful bottom? I really like bottoms', she alleges he said
Threats:
After a string of flirtatious texts (left), she claims that Ronaldo flew
her to Europe to enjoy a night of passion while he was dating model
Irina Shayk. Once news of the alleged rendezvous was splashed across
newspapers he turned on her, sending a message which she claims read: 'I
swear by God. Justice will be done my f****ing whore. I will send
people to come after you'
Andressa
writes that, in the middle of the night, the footballer knocked on her
door and they had sex, before he left an envelope with her payment in
euros on the dresser.
The
next day he took her to see London's tourist spots, before having lunch
in a private room of a Italian restaurant. After she left to return to
Brazil, she never heard from him again.
Months
later another Brazil international player, also married with children,
brought her over to the European city where he played at the time.
Andressa
says she and another Brazilian prostitute were paid 12,000 reals
(£3,000) each to take part in a two-day orgy with him and two others
players.
She
writes: 'The three footballers wanted to have intimate relations with
me at the same time, but I resisted. On the first night, I slept only
with the Brazil player, who in the middle of the night left the bedroom
to sleep with the other girl.
'On
the next day, after lunch, another party flowing with drink and
pleasure in a mansion in the neighbouring condo. The players were the
same. They all drank a lot of whisky in the hot tub and, when it came to
the sauna bath, there was group sex. The men didn't touch each other,
but I became an object in the hands of each one of them.'
As
I left the private lift, my heart was racing and it burst as soon as
the room door opened. It was him in person, Cristiano Ronaldo
The
third Brazil international Andressa claims she slept with was 'very
young, rich and renowned' and cheated on his girlfriend with her, this
time at her own apartment in Sao Paulo.
She claims that the player left a purple mark on her chest caused by 'a sudden bite in bed'.
Andressa
showed little restraint with the hundreds of thousands she earned
selling her body. 'I didn't have any control over how I spent what I
received. I spent 12,000 reals (£3,000) on a Chanel bag in Paris and
another 25,000 (£7,500) on a Valentino dress in New York.
'I
paid 15,000 (£4,000) on a gold watch studded with diamonds, and to have
a pet, I spent 7,000 (£1,800) on a domesticated marmoset monkey.
'And
still the phone calls didn't stop. I travelled to Miami to go out with
an international Brazilian model, which paid me 8,000 reals (£2,000),
while he brokered another, surprising encounter with a famous leading
man from the novelas of Globo TV (mainstream Brazilian channel).'
Andressa
remembers, after meeting the Globo actor at the arranged address in Sao
Paulo: 'Coming face to face with the soap opera actor, I sighed. He was
one of the biggest heartthrobs of women in Brazil.'
But
she adds: 'Half way through the sexual relations, I quickly discovered
his fetishes. He started slapping me and strongly yanking my hair. It
didn't strike me as that strange, until he started to bite my head
without stopping and with a certain violence. He bit me so many times
that by the time the session was over my skull was full of teeth marks.'
Wannabe: Andressa (in early modelling shots) said there was nothing that could stop her chasing fame
Sex sells: Andressa, 28, said she has
slept with more than 1,000 men. 'I was taken over by a blind and
dangerous greed. I went to Panama City to take part in orgies in the
mansion of one of the city's biggest businessmen, along with four other
Brazilian girls. The place was full of armed guards'
On
March 19, 2013, Andressa claims she received an unexpected phone call
from Portuguese idol Cristiano Ronaldo, who had been passed her number
by two close friends.
'Are
you really Miss Bumbum of Brazil?' he asked. 'Do you have the most
beautiful bottom? I really like bottoms', she alleges he asked.
She
points out that she wasn't paid as a hooker for the alleged trip,
claiming: 'I couldn't believe I'd have the chance to have a romantic
encounter with one of the planet's most revered footballers. I didn't
want to know about getting paid for this trip. No amount of money would
pay for the success of being at the side of Cristiano Ronaldo, I
thought.'
A
month later, she claims to have arrived in Madrid on the orders of the
footballer, who had already booked the £12,000-a-night suite at the
city's Villa Magna hotel.
I
developed a cowardly way of surviving. I felt nothing and thought of
nothing. It was as if I'd made myself a hollow being, with nothing
inside. I didn't remember the faces of the men
While
Andressa had no intention of going public about their discreet
rendezvous, she had a plan to have her photo taken with the star in
order to create more publicity for herself in Brazil.
She
alleges in her memoir: 'As I left the private lift, my heart was racing
and it burst as soon as the room door opened. It was him in person,
Cristiano Ronaldo. Smiling, he invited me in and we talked quickly about
what was going to happen.
'Then
he grabbed me and we have an intense sexual relationship. Contrary to
what I imagined, the player was quite aggressive in bed. We spent less
than an hour in the bedroom.'
Andressa
claims that she asked Ronaldo about his Russian girlfriend, model Irina
Shayk, and he said the 'relationship was nothing serious' and changed
the subject.
She
says the player soon began to receive messages on his phone and
appeared to become nervous and impatient to leave. The model started to
worry that she wouldn't get the photo she wanted, so asked if she could
take one with him 'as a fan'.
She
claims: 'He said, "you can, but not here in the bedroom. Go down and
wait for me in the basement of the hotel. When I go down, we can take a
photo."
'I
waited in the car park for 40 minutes. Then a member of staff arrived
telling me that he had already left. But then, as I called the lift to
take me to the lobby to leave, another member of staff took my arm and
ordered, "Go up. Cristiano said for you to go up".
'Without
a reaction, I returned to the same bedroom, which this time was empty,
and they locked me in there for around three and a half hours.
Anguished, I called my agent for help saying I was a victim of false
imprisonment.
Money
talks: Andressa showed little restraint with the hundreds of thousands
she earned selling her body, recounting how she would spend, without
thinking twice, £3,000 on a Chanel bag in Paris, £7,500 on a Valentino
dress in New York and £4,000 on a gold watch studded with diamonds
Animal: Andressa's frivolous spending extended to paying £1,800 on a domesticated marmoset monkey
'When
they opened to door to let me go, I saw three hulks in the corridor.
Scared, they took me back down to the basement and into a pick-up truck
with blacked out windows, and only let me leave the doors of the hotel
when I had given an absolute guarantee that I wouldn't let myself be
photographed.
'As soon as I was freed, all I could think about was the desire for revenge.'
After
she told her story to a British tabloid, Andressa claims a 'furious'
Ronaldo called her, and later sent a string of threatening messages,
which the model has kept, including: 'You're going to spend all the
money you earned paying for medicines.'
When
Andressa replied saying she wasn't paid for the story, he allegedly
replied: 'I swear by God. Justice will be done my f****ing whore. I will
send people to come after you. You don't know me. You'll see what I
will do.'
Even
so, Andressa says she now regrets her tryst with the player and reaches
out to him and Ms Shayk, asking for forgiveness. 'I want to publicly
ask for forgiveness from Cristiano Ronaldo and his then girlfriend,
Irina. If I could turn back time, I would write a new page for
everything that happened.'
Ronaldo has said that he was 'outraged' by Andressa's claims, branding them as 'pure fiction' and 'forgery'.
Andressa
believes that her uncontrollable pursuit of attention at all costs was a
result of a childhood bereft of love and affection.
Her
father rejected her on the day she came into the world, on October 11,
1987, because she was darker than other members of the family, which has
German descendents, and most of whom have blue or green eyes and blonde
hair.
I always wanted to be like Barbie, but ended up nicknamed Wolverine because of my plastic surgery
He
left home soon after and her mother Marisete, who was just 14 when she
had her, had 'no experience and no patience at all', bringing her up
with frequent and violent beatings.
When
she was three her mother fell in love with another man and moved in
with him, moving to his small upstate town, where another elderly couple
also lived who she began to call 'grandma and granddad'.
While
her mother went out to work, she often stayed alone with her
58-year-old 'grandfather', who would abuse her for the next five years,
until his wife caught him in the act and Andressa, now eight, moved back
with her mother to Porto Alegre.
Her
early childhood experiences, says Andressa, 'made me grow up as a
solitary, needy and rebellious girl. Boyfriends, attempts to run away,
aggressive behaviour and addiction became my rules of conduct.'
She
began smoking cigarettes at the age of 11, and cannabis at the age of
13. After her mother discovered a cigarette packet in her wardrobe she
beat her up then dumped her with Andressa's father, who up until then
she had never met.
There,
she began to go to parties accompanied by a 16-year-old relative, with
whom she says she had her first sexual experience at the age of 14.
A
year later, Andressa fell in love with a boy at school, and with the
blessing of her mother they married weeks later. Days before her 17th
birthday, she gave birth to their son, Arthur. The turbulent marriage
lasted five years.
It
was following her separation, aged 21, that Andressa, a struggling
single mother, started on the slippery slope to prostitution. Hearing of
a friend's cousin who was earning money as an erotic dancer, she
contacted a strip club and brothel in the centre of Porto Alegre.
Broken family: Andressa's mother
Marisete (second left), who was just 14 when she had her, had 'no
experience and no patience at all', bringing Andressa (centre) up with
frequent and violent beatings.
Abuse: Andressa claims she was abused by a man who she lived with and called her grandfather for 5 years
Natural beauty: Andressa when she was 14 - the same year in which she lost her virginity to a relative
At
first determined to dance only, it wasn't long before she was convinced
to go with a man to one of the brothel bedrooms, and discovered how
much more money she could earn selling her body.
Baptising
herself 'Imola', after the curvy Formula 1 racetrack where Brazilian
driver Ayton Senna lost his life, Andressa soon threw herself into her
new profession and quickly became known as the best girl in the
establishment.
She
said: 'I did crazy things in the bed. I screamed and kissed a lot,
which was rare amongst the prostitutes... I did everything that the
other girls didn't do.
'I
used to say to clients that no other of the 200 women in the place came
close to me, both in terms of beauty as well as what I would do within
those four bedroom walls.
'With
time, and word of mouth, my name ended up being featured on the main
call girl website in the south of Brazil. The price of my sessions
started to go up, from 400 reals (£100) to 3,000 (£750). I ended up
earning more than 30,000 reals (£7,500) a month working from Monday to
Saturday. I would go with as many as seven men in one day.'
But
she admits: 'I developed a cowardly way of surviving. I felt nothing
and thought of nothing. It was as if I'd made myself a hollow being,
with nothing inside. I didn't remember the faces of the men. At home, I
forgot everything that had happened the previous night as if it I was an
actress in a soap opera.'
During
this time Andressa left her son Arthur with her mother, and lied to
them about her work, saying only that she was working as a nightclub
dancer.
After
three years, and already with her services in demand all over the south
of Brazil, Andressa decided she needed a plan to become even more
desirable - and dear - and embarked on the path to fame.
After
waking up from one operation, I decided I'd have two new procedures -
cut down my toes so I could wear a smaller size of shoe, and take out a
rib from each side in order to have a slimmer waist. My surgeon refused
to do them
Weeks
later, she won a beauty contest and the title of 'Serie A Girl' of
local football club Internacional, and soon after won another
competition on Record TV to be a glamorous assistant on the Legendarios
programme for two months.
Soon
after, she received an offer from a famous medium to live with him as
his 'girlfriend', paying 12,000 reais (£3,000) per month as well as
gifting her with expensive clothes, bags and jewellery.
With her self-publicity strategy apparently working, Andressa began looking for more opportunities for exposure.
Her
obsession with plastic surgery also intensified, and in just four years
she underwent 14 intrusive cosmetic procedures, including two boob
jobs, two stomach liposuctions, five PMMA injections and vaginal lip
reduction surgery.
She says: 'I always wanted to be like Barbie, but ended up nicknamed Wolverine because of my plastic surgery.
'I
loved transforming myself, be who I wanted to be. I was addicted to
plastic surgery. There were no limits. On average, there was a procedure
every three and a half months. I spent more than a million reals
(£250,000) on interventions, clinics and pre- and post-operation
treatment. I wasn't able to see the insanity of my actions.
'Nothing
held me back. After waking up from one operation, I decided I'd have
two new procedures - cut down my toes so I could wear a smaller size of
shoe, and take out a rib from each side in order to have a slimmer
waist. My surgeon refused to do them.'
While
filming a commercial for a fizzy drinks brand, Andressa met Brazilian
singer Latino, who accepted her plea to become one of his dancers during
shows and TV performances. Her five months with the singer helped land
her an invite to pose nude for Brazilian men's magazine Sexy.
In
November 2012 she came second in the famous Miss Bumbum competition, a
conquest which opened many more doors both in Brazil and beyond - as
well as even higher class clients.
In
June 2013, Andressa - by now a household name in Brazil - was invited
to a private meeting with the agent of a famous Brazilian country star,
where she was offered £20,000 to be the singer's girlfriend.
He
told her: 'You need to pretend to date him. Be photographed with him,
hug him during dinner, walk hand in hand, talk about his romantic side,
say that he's a gentleman.'
Andressa
recalls: 'I accepted straight away. Detail - the singer himself had no
idea about the scheme. No-one told me openly, but I guessed that it was
an initiative of his own father and the agent who administered his
career.
'For months I took part in shows, filming, VIP events, always smiling at his side.'
At
other times the model had no notion of the danger of her string of
sexual liaisons. During one affair with a married drug trafficker in Sao
Paulo, during which he would thump her in the face and suffocate her
during sex, the 39-year-old took a revolver from a bedside draw and
pressed it against her back, saying: 'If you cheat on me, I'll kill you.
All I have to do is put my finger here, it's that easy.'
Simple pleasures: Today, Andressa
feels lucky to be alive and is happy just spending time with her son and
family. Her experience has turned into a money spinner however, as she
now fronts a show with people explaining how they survived traumatic
situations
Bombshell: Andressa's book, published
by Editora Planeta, will be published in Brazil later this month and in
Europe early next year
Her
last money-motivated relationship was with a millionaire businessman
who was on Forbes magazine's list of richest Brazilians, which she ended
shortly before her stint in hospital as she began to suffer
debilitating pain in her legs.
By
the time she was rushed to hospital in early December last year,
Andressa had achieved her dream of being one of Brazil's most talked
about beauties - and the whole country accompanied her terrifying ordeal
as she teetered on the brink of death.
The
chemical fillers hydrogel and PMMA she had injected into her thighs
four years earlier had begun to rot her body tissue, and procedures to
drain them triggered an infection which sent her into septic shock
within hours of arriving at the Conceicao hospital in Porto Alegre.
As
doctors fought to save her, rumours circulated that both her legs had
been amputated, with one news channel even reporting her death,
distressing her millions of devoted fans around the country.
Andressa
went through two emergency surgeries, while doctors pumped her body
with saline solution to try to get her kidneys working again. The liquid
collected all over her body, bloating her head, limbs and torso to
twice its normal size.
Privately,
though, medics doubted the model would pull through - they later told
her that, with only half of people who go into septic shock surviving,
they were expecting the worst.
Andressa
credits her survival and recuperation on the prayers of members of her
mother's Evangelical church, and God giving her a second chance to
correct the errors she made in her life.
Converting
to the same faith, she resolved to turn her back on the life of
prostitution, drugs and the reckless pursuit of fame, and spend her life
warning others women about the slippery slopes down which she slid and
the dangers of drastic surgery.
Now
with her own TV programme, 'I Survived', in which she recounts the
stories of others who have emerged through difficult or near-fatal
experiences, Andressa has deleted saucy snaps from her social networking
accounts and reportedly thrown away six wardrobes of skimpy outfits.
Telling
her warts-and-all story now, she says, is a way of purging herself of
her past, starting afresh, and helping others to find a way out of their
own nightmares.
She
says: 'Little by little, I'm discovering new riches. I started to value
simple yet unique moments in our routine. I feel gladness when I wake
up in the morning and have breakfast with my son and my mother. I love
watching films in bed with my boy. I'm not afraid of getting old. I want
to take care of myself, always be good-looking and elegant, but I'm
happy with my body.
'Today, just feeling the wind against my face or breathe deeply brings a smile to my face. It's so good to be alive.'