As her gripping story plays out on Underbelly 3, the hooker who later joined the police force tells Naomi Toy how she has finally moved on from her past.
The seedy streets of Sydney’s Kings Cross are an intimidating place to be. Sex and drugs and an undercurrent of menace ripple along the so-called Golden Mile like electricity, charging the air even in the warm glow of the midday sun.
But Kim Hollingsworth, the prostitute who dreamed only of becoming a policewoman, is perfectly at ease. She’s immune to the stares as Woman’s Day’s cameras capture her in her old stamping ground.
She gives a nod or “G’day” in her broad Australian accent, at one point asking after the welfare of a woman who has clearly never escaped the life that could so easily have been Kim’s.
Drive about two hours west of Sydney’s underbelly and Kim is even more at ease. She’s home. Home in the quiet country, where she lives alone, looking after her beloved horses.
As her story plays out on the small screen in Nine’s third Underbelly series, Kim, 43, is feeling better than she has in a long time.
To read the full story see this week’s Woman’s Day, on sale June 21, 2010.
