Roxy Jezel

Roxy Jezel, real name Soolin Tanachaisugit,  was born on June 5, 1982 in London, England.  Her father is Thai and her mother is English.  She grew up in East London in a place she says was "kind of ghetto."  She was a good girl in school and got an award for having top grades in secondary school.

When she was 17, she worked for a chat line, talking dirty to men from the USA and Ireland.  She got the dragon tattoo on her back when she was 18 and at university because her father was born during the year of the dragon, and in Chinese philosophy, they believe dragons protect you.  She graduated with a BA in philosophy.  Using money she saved from her work as a chat line worker, she backpacked around Europe and Australia, and began working as a stripper in Australia.  She launched her own website, which was noticed by Direct Models in LA, who contacted her and paid her to fly to the USA to begin her career in pornography.

Janine Lindemulder

Janine Lindemulder was born on November 14, 1968 in La Mirada, California.  Her ethnic background is Dutch, German, French, and Native American.  She had a normal childhood, growing up with her sister, who is one year younger than Janine.  She always played softball, and her father was the coach and her mother was the manager.

During school, she had a lot of male friends and always had a steady boyfriend.  The other girls at school never liked her and were jealous and mistook her shyness for being stuck up.  Janine graduated high school and was offered softball scholarships by four different colleges, but didn't go to college.   

After graduating high school she had a variety of jobs ranging from working at a pizza parlor to working as a candy gram stripper.  She did a photo shoot for Penthouse and her adult career progressed from there.

Nautica Thorn

Nautica Thorn was born on June 13, 1984 in Waipahu, Oahu, Hawaii as an only child.  She is half Japanese, a quarter Puerto Rican, and a quarter Hawaiian.  Her mother is a secretary and her father works in the construction business.

Thorn was 12 years old the first time she kissed a boy, 13 when she first performed oral sex on a boy, and lost her virginity at the age of 14 in the living room of her parents' house.   Her first job was being a lei greeter at an airport in Hawaii, adorning visitors with the large flower necklaces and giving them a kiss.  She says she was good at the job.  At 16, she moved to California, where she worked at a coffee shop and at Melrose boutiques.  After she turned 18, she began working as a stripper, then nude modeling, and then finally adult film.

Briana Banks

Briana Banks, real name Briana Bany, was born on March 21, 1978 in Munich, Germany to a German father and an American mother.  Her mother had moved to Germany to work as a live-in nanny.  They moved to Britain when she was four years old, and then to the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley when she was seven. 

In high school, Briana was very shy, self-conscious, and prudish.  She had only three boyfriends during high school.  She was dumped by one because she was too prudish for him.  She dated her second boyfriend John for four years, but he cheated on her and freeloaded, living with her for free and not helping out with the bills at all.

When Briana was 16, she ran away from home with her 14 year old sister.  When she was 18, she got legal custody of her sister.  She modeled as a teenager, highlighted by being on the cover of Teen magazine.  Before entering porn, her jobs included making pizzas, a clerk at an arts and crafts store, and as a file clerk.  Then Briana worked as a secretary for a cosmetics company for about six months.

When Briana's longtime boyfriend John broke up, Briana got depressed and was fired from her job because she was calling in sick too often.  She decided she wanted to try nude modeling and quickly ended up in adult film.

Jenna Jameson



Jenna Jameson, real name Jenna Marie Massoli, was born in Las Vegas, NV on April 9, 1974.  She's of Italian, English, German, and Irish descent.  Her father was a Vietnam veteran and worked as program director for KSNV-TV.  Jenna's dream as a child was to be a newscaster.  Her mother was a Las Vegas showgirl who danced in the Folies Bergere show at the Tropicana Resort and Casino.  Her mother died of melanoma two months before Jenna's second birthday.  The cancer treatments had bankrupted the family.  Her father joined the Las Vegas Sheriff's Department in order to fight corruption, but the mafia retaliated by trying to kidnap Jenna and her brother Tony.  The kids were put under police protection and the family eventually relocated several times in Nevada, Arizona, and Montana.  Jenna usually lived in trailers and sometimes lived with her grandmother.

Jenna participated in many beauty pageants as a child, and she took ballet classes, training in dance for 15 years.  

When Jenna was 16 years old and living on a cattle ranch in Fromberg, Montana, she was beaten with rocks and was gangraped by four boys after a football game at Fromberg High School.  She had gotten in their truck while hitchhiking, thinking they would drive her home.  They took her down a dirt road and kept knocking her unconscious while raping her.  She woke up later covered in insect bites, her clothing in tatters, and with her head in a pool of her own blood.  The boys had left her for dead.

  She also claims to have been raped again at the age of 16 by her boyfriend Jack's biker uncle, which he denies.  She moved in with Jack and, being a tattoo artist, he gave her the trademark tattoo of two hearts on her right buttock. 

Jenna tried to follow in her mother's footsteps and went back to Las Vegas to try to be a showgirl.  She was frequently rejected due to her lack of height, but was eventually hired by Disneyland Resort, but quit after two months because of pay issues.

Jack encouraged her to become a stripper, so she applied at Crazy Horse Too.  After being turned down because of her braces, she removed them with pliers and was then hired.  She was underage, but used a fake ID to work.  She was making $2000 a night before she even graduated from Bonanza High School.

Jenna had started taking drugs while in high school.  She was taking LSD, cocaine, and meth.  Her addiction worsened and by the time she was 20, she had lost so much weight, she weighed only 76 pounds, leaving her too thin to model.  Jack left her and a friend put her in a wheelchair and sent Jenna to Redding, CA to detox with her father.  Her father didn't recognize her when she got off the plane. 

She initially began working in porn in retaliation for Jack's infidelity.



Sasha Grey



Sasha Grey, real name Marina Ann Hantzis, was born on March 14, 1988 in North Highlands, California to a working class family.  Her mother worked for the state of California and her father was a mechanic.  Her ancestry is English, Greek, Irish, and Polish.  Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and she was raised by her mother, who remarried when Marina was 12.

Marina lost her virginity at the age of 16.  She started experimenting with rough sex with her third boyfriend in high school. 

Marina attended four different high schools and didn't like any of them, but she graduated early at the age of 17.  In the fall of 2005, she attended Sacramento City College and took classes in film, dance, and acting.  Her first job was being a cashier at a fast food restaurant.  She worked as a waitress at a steakhouse through March 2006 and saved $7000 for a move to Los Angeles.  Working and going to college full time was very stressful for her, so she watched a lot of porn.  She also read a lot about porn, and did a lot of research on how it is made.  After one semester of college, she left college to pursue her career in porn.



Belladonna



Belladonna, real name Michelle Anne Sinclair, was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 21, 1981.  She's the second of seven children.  She has three brothers and three sisters.  She also has a half-sister.  Her father is a retired Air Force captain and former bishop in the Mormon Church.  Her family has German, Scottish, and Cherokee roots. 

She experienced her first kiss at the age of 12, got her first tattoo at 13, and lost her virginity at age 14.  Michelle dropped out of high school at age 15 and left home.  Prior to working in porn, she worked at 7-11, Victoria's Secret, Sears, and Subway. 

When she was 18, she left Utah and went to Los Angeles to look for work as a nude photograph model.  She failed to get photography work, so her agent advised her to try to get work in porn.  She was initially reluctant because she thought porn was "the most disgusting thing in the world."



Asia Carrera

Age 10

Asia Carrera, real name Jessica Steinhauser, was born on August 6, 1973 in New York City to a Japanese father and a German mother.  She is the eldest of four siblings, having two younger brothers and a younger sister.  Jessica was raised in Little Silver, New Jersey, attending the Little River School District and Red Bank Regional High School.  She was the New Jersey spelling bee champ.  She was a member of the National Mathematics League and the Spanish National Honor Society.  She placed in National Geography, Language Arts, and Mathematics Olympiads.  Jessica's studies during high school primarily focused on instrumental music and the visual arts.  She was a National Merit Scholar, having scored a 1440 on the SAT.  Her outstanding grades made her a Garden State Scholar.

Jessica studied piano as a child and by the age of 13, she performed music by Bach at Carnegie Hall.  She played the piano at Carnegie Hall again at the age of 14, performing Maleguena.  By 16, she taught Colloquial English at Tsuruga College in Japan. 

Jessica enjoyed playing the piano and hanging out with her friends, but her parents were exceptionally strict.  Her father, who himself had attended Cal Tech on a full scholarship for math and physics, and her mother wanted her to go to Harvard and become a doctor or a lawyer.  They would ground Jessica for each B that she made and they would beat her for any grade lower than a B.  Her parents wouldn't allow her to socialize or go to parties.  Jessica frequently would sneak out, and would get grounded and beaten when her parents caught her.  Jessica repeatedly tried to commit suicide during this time period, and eventually ran away shortly before her 17th birthday.

Facing homelessness, Jessica stayed anywhere she could.  She stayed with a rock and roll band, with friends, with strangers, in hotels, even a tent.  She had to beg friends to drive her to school and had to beg for food.  Everything she owned fit into two garbage bags.  She says she had sex with people she didn't want to have sex with, including strangers, just to have a place to stay or food to eat.  She lost 15 pound while on the street.  The state found out she was homeless and put her into a strict foster home.  She ran away from the foster home on her 18th birthday.



High School Senior

With her 1440 SAT score and numerous academic achievements, she went to Rutgers University on a full scholarship, double majoring in business and Japanese.  She says she didn't go for the education, but rather for the free bed and meals.  She worked as a bartender and eventually became a stripper after she heard they made a lot of money.  She had to drink vodka to work up her courage to strip.  She made $300 on her first night and was soon working every night, quickly becoming one of the highest paid dancers in New Jersey, saving at least $1000 each week.  Jessica stopped attending classes due to her busy schedule, only showing up to take finals.  She never graduated college. 

Hearing that girls in magazines and movies made more money than strippers, she wrote to various adult magazines and did shoots for Club magazine.  She called Bud Lee in Los Angeles and flew there in the winter of 1993 with just her suitcase and a teddy bear.



Asia Carrera retired from adult film in 2003, the same month she married her second husband, Don Lemmon.  They moved to Utah, where Asia enjoys raising her children in a conservative environment, so it will be more difficult for them to get into trouble.  They had a baby girl in 2005.  Her husband died in a car accident in June of 2006, a month before her first son was born.  She delivered her first son on her own at her home.  Worried about her livelihood and concerned about not being able to raise her kids on her own, she asked for donations on her blog.  Eventually, she received a message from an insurance company informing her of a life insurance policy on her husband.

In 2010, Asia wrote on her blog that she had become an alcoholic after the death of Don, but had joined Alcoholics Anonymous and was recovering.

 

In June of 2012, she gave birth to her second son.  As a widow with two children already, the third child was adopted by close friends of Asia who couldn't have children of their own.  Asia stays in her third child's life, however.

Raising two children on her own takes up a lot of Asia's time these days, but as a member of Mensa with an IQ of 156, she spends a lot of time reading.