Jodi Arias Isn’t a “Bad B*tch”: A Look at Her Life in Prison 18 Years Later

Travis Alexander felt an instant attraction to Jodi Arias during their first interaction in 2006 at a Las Vegas Conference. She was smart, beautiful, and sexually adventurous. The two began a relationship, although Travis admitted he did not want anything serious. He enjoyed having sex with her and hanging out occasionally.

Jodi convinced herself that she could change Travis. She could convince him that she was the girl of his dreams.

First, she relocated closer to his home and became his house cleaner. She then converted to Mormonism since it was such a huge part of his lifestyle, and made herself available to him for sex 24/7.

Travis had no idea the beauty on the outside hid pure evil on the inside. She revealed it slowly. His friends warned him.

When he tried to end things with Jodi, she unleashed that evilness, and Travis lost his life.

Jodi became Inmate #281129 in the Arizona Department of Corrections on July 15, 2008, about a month after Travis's brutal murder.

Jodi cut him from throat to ear to the other ear and then shot him in the head moments after they had sex in the shower. He had ended things with Jodi, but still wanted sex.

Travis lay dead in his bedroom for several days before friends found his body and called 911.

Jodi denied killing Travis. She changed her story several times, first claiming someone broke into his home. She changed her story, then claiming she killed him, but did so in self-defense. She accused him of abuse and other false crimes.

The numerous stories were laughable to anyone with common sense, a true disregard and disrespect for Travis's life.

Jodi’s courtroom behavior was so erratic that even her lawyer said during the trial, “I don’t even like Jodi Arias most days.”

Jodi Behind Bars

Jodi didn't waste time using her beauty and sexuality to her advantage behind bars. Even before she was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, she took advantage of anyone who allowed her manipulation.

Numerous reports stated she often flirted with guards, since they didn't hesitate to give her extra privileges. She loved the attention from both male and female officers, even when something 'extra' wasn't part of the deal.

Guards allegedly provided her with jailhouse commodities, including mascara, which she used to tattoo other inmates in exchange for comissary.

“There were a couple of officers — she would flirt with or play with her hair with — and they would go in find that tattoo equipment, and they would leave it alone," Tracy Brown told Inside Edition several years ago.

She continued her flirty, fun personality after conviction and transfer to prison. Things have changed, and Jodi no longer seems to thrive as the center of attention. Perhaps reality finally smacked her in the face.

Eighteen years into her sentence, Jodi has a new look, a new attitude, and a new demeanor.

Her once- long, wavy, bleach-blonde hair is now dark, cut in a bob, cleverly covering her small, round-lens glasses. She's now 45 years old, and described by fellow inmates to fit the profile look of a school teacher or librarian rather than the cold-blooded killer that landed her in prison. The latter happens to be her prison job. She earns a few cents per hour working in prison. She creates and sells art with help from an outside source.

Jodi no longer performs strip teases or flirts with the guards. She is quiet and soft-spoken and stays to herself when she isn’t working.

“You wouldn’t know that she was a killer,” said Yesenia Alvarado, who spent three years locked up at Perryville Prison in Goodyear, AZ, with Jodi.

Never Judge a Book by its Cover

Looks can be deceiving. Very deceiving.

Despite a 5’5”, 115- pound stature, a beautiful face, and a curvy body, Jodi Arias proved you should never judge a book by its cover. She brutally murdered a man because he did not want the same commitment she needed.

Jodi is one of Arizona's most notorious killers. Travis deserved so much more than she offered to him, and he knew it. Sadly, it was her beauty and hot body that trapped him in her web, and eventually, the wrath of a scorned woman.