Hi Hannah,
I just tell the truth when I'm asked. I hate lying anyway plus I'd get myself all in a muddle! I think guys just want to know we have normal (ish!) lives like they do.
I have no deep dark secrets apart from this job so it's lovely to be able to have a frank chat with clients. They're often interested in how I came to be in the business and where I lived before and I have no problem with sharing.
The only people who ask stupid probing questions are like the so-called celebrity footballer who called me last night and he asked me some pretty irritating questions so I obviously put him straight and DIDN'T see him. He actually admitted to being a dickhead, so I've saved his number as that so I can avoid him!! See below:
'So what's a gorgeous looking girl like you doing on AW?' (Errr...not too smart, is he??)
'Why won't you come and see me? I'm really rich and going to be famous soon and live in a luxury apartment, even though I'm a dickhead.' (I'm just grabbing my purse now....NOT!)
'So you used to be a professional (previous job) so I suppose you must really love this then, right?' (No, I gave up my professional career, which I hated to do something else I equally hate! Hang on, you're a self-confessed dickhead so does that mean you have no brains either in there??)
'I want to know more about you, tell me. Are you not in Norwich, I thought you were?' (No brain AND can't read - case closed).
So, Hannah, for me it's more a case of not what I divulge but to WHOM I divulge it too.