Chicago – Author, entrepreneur and adult entertainer Melody Jai opens the door to one of the most private chapters of her life in I Thought U Should Know, a candid debut memoir about desire, heartbreak and the difficult journey back to self-love.
The 348-page book traces Jai’s 14-year, on-and-off relationship with a world-famous R&B singer, following its extraordinary highs, painful complications and lasting emotional consequences. By weaving intimate journal entries and personal text messages into the narrative, she preserves the immediacy of what she felt and understood at each stage of the relationship.
“I spent years living this story before I understood what it was here to teach me,” said Jai. “Writing it meant looking honestly at my choices without surrendering my own responsibility or erasing the love that was real. I wanted to tell my side in my own words, then share what became possible when I stopped looking outside myself for the love I needed.”
Jai entered adult entertainment in 1999 and built an independent online business after becoming an early viral sensation on YouTube in 2009. Beyond entertainment, she is a Nature Aligned Leadership Coach, 500-hour trained yoga instructor, chef and High Priestess.
I Thought U Should Know is available in paperback and Kindle editions through Amazon. Signed copies and additional information are available at TheMelodyJai.com.
ABOUT MELODY JAI:
Melody Jai is an author, entrepreneur and adult entertainer who has never mistaken one identity for the whole of who she is. Her multifaceted life also includes work as a Nature Aligned Leadership Coach, chef, 500-hour trained yoga instructor and High Priestess. Jai entered adult entertainment in 1999, then became an early viral sensation through a 2009 twerking video that reached millions before “going viral” became everyday language. She turned that visibility into a successful independently operated adult entertainment business and has also worked on film sets, appeared in music videos and earned film and television credits under the name Melody S. Jones.
Born in Germany and introduced to travel at an early age, Jai has built her life through direct experience. Her curiosity has taken her to India for yoga training, Peru for ayahuasca and plant medicine and Alaska for work, as well as across the country while living and traveling full-time in an RV. Along the way, the culinary graduate has studied elemental wisdom, astrology, archetypes and spiritual practice. She has completed a year-long Nature Aligned Leadership certification in addition to High Priestess and intuitive oracle training. Her rule for living is simple: experience all the things and, sometimes, do it for the plot.
At the center of Jai’s philosophy is the Creatrix, a woman who thinks for herself, accepts responsibility for her choices and consciously participates in creating her own reality. Her debut memoir, I Thought U Should Know, brings that philosophy to an intensely personal story, chronicling an 14-year, on-and-off relationship with a world-famous entertainer and the healing journey that led her back to herself. Today, Jai brings sexuality, spirituality, entrepreneurship, travel, food and personal transformation into one unapologetically whole life, guided by the conviction that a woman never has to make herself smaller or simpler to live with integrity.