However, to date, this book has remained her most famous and is responsible for bringing her to public attention. Before the book came to light, Jackie was more of a lesser-known author. The book tells the tale of a young South African girl, Treasure, whose gruesome life experience forced her to grow up very fast.Īccording to the plot, Treasure was gang-raped during her teens and as she made moves to pursue a career in the modeling world, the unsuspecting lady was lured into a reckless life best described with three expressions, sex, big business, and money. Bare: The Blesser’s Game, the Breeding of an Underdog Came NextĪs she grew older, the writer earned more popularity by publishing her second book, Bare: The Blesser’s Game which hit the book stand in 2017. Though she only became known as a writer in 2017 through Bare: The Blesser’s Game, Jackie Phamotse started writing as far back as 2014 when she was 25 The young author treated her countrymen to a book titled Shattered Innocence. Jackie Was Only 25 When She Wrote Her First Book Shattered Innocence All these are chronicled in her Bare book series. She experienced adolescence ravaged by maltreatment, sexual abuse, and later grew into a woman who tried to make a living by engaging in transactional sex with the rich men of Joburg. Life in the biggest city of South Africa was far from easy for the upcoming writer. This led to a life of abuse and trauma for the writer who later took the decision to leave home for Johannesburg where she spent a better part of her growing up years. When his wife eventually died, the responsibility of raising Jackie and her siblings naturally fell on their abusive dad.

According to reports, her dad was very abusive to both his wife and children.

The identity of her parents may not be known, but it is common knowledge that the writer cum businesswoman had a military commander as a father. Though we don’t have details about her background, the SA author came from a family of six which indicates that she is not the only child of her parents, however, the names of her siblings have never been mentioned. The activist was born in her native South Africa on the 3rd of March in 1989.

Bare by Jackie Phamotse