What did they do before porn?

[parker]

Anyone have info on what professions pornstars were doing before they got into the business? Also acceptable are professons they were trained for but may not have ever actually done.

From the other thread we got:

Lexington Steele - stockbroker

Ron Jeremy - teacher

Nina Hartley - nurse

Tera Patrick - nurse

Ashlyn Gere - actress

Kay Parker - actress, she was "recruited" by John Leslie, who happen to be also taking one of her acting classes.

Sean Micheals - I know he studied acting, but I'm not sure if he was serious about becoming one.

Janet Jacme - real estate agent

Sylvia Saint - worked in a hotel. I remember hearing she was in management, but I now find that hard to believe considering her age.

Jeanna Fine - quite certain she was a legal secretary

Others I can add at this time:

Tom Byron - worked in an adult video store. Porn actresses used to come by to check out their videos. A couple of the ladies convinced him to give it a try.

Steve Drake - fisherman, lol! really!

Marilyn Chambers - not sure about her profession, model? but she's famous for being the woman on the boxcover for Ivory detergent
Any other stories out there?

 

[roadrunner]

german pornstar Kelly Trump was a dental assistant before she go to the adult industry

 

[roadrunner]

maybe you now this: Rita Faltoyano was 3time junior hungarian swimming champion! and her mother was miss hungary 1974

 

[Romulus]

Alicia Rio- was working as a city employee in Mexico.

Angelique Pettijohn- number of b-movies and TV shows. She's best known as Shahna, an alien woman who Kirk seduces in the 'Gamesters of Triskelion' episode of the original 'Star Trek.'

Barocca- a lab tech at a genetic engineering company. investment broker

Beverlee Hills - stunt woman in Hollywood

Bridgette Kerkove- ran a pool and spa business

Brittany O'neil - University of Nebraska as a theater arts major

Christy Canyon - holds an associates degree in merchandise marketing. From where I have no clue?

Serenity - danced ballet for 16 years

Rocki Roads- was working as an employee at a burger joint? Mcdonalds or Burger King??

 

[Famousbabes]

Tabitha Stevens was a house wife.

 

[parker]

Another pornstar that was famous for being an ex-housewife was Stacey Valentine.

I remember a few more now....

Teri Weigel - former Playboy Playmate, the only one I know of that ever went into porn

John Stagliano - while it's very common for female strippers to do porn, he's gotta be one of the few male strippers to do porn... he's was a former Chippendale's dancer.

Viper - don't know how many people remember her, I wish I could forget her! :eek: Anyway, she was a ex-Marine in the US Armed Forces.

Jack Baker - another of the old-timers... He had the recurring role of "Sticks" on Happy Days... the young black drummer, if anyone remembers.

 

[Reverend Ebb]

Linsey Dawn was a mere schoolgirl before launching herself into the industry.

 

[krypto]

Haha...this is a fun topic.

 

[parker]

Linsey Dawn was a mere schoolgirl before launching herself into the industry.

We all know Linsey's story, mate... 'tis the stuff of legends are made of!

 

[Reverend Ebb]

If I mention her enough, you'll all become brainwashed into the ways of the LDM...

 

[JL3001]

Quite an interesting topic. Love to hear some more.

JL3001

 

[Romulus]

Champagne- working as a secretary for a private investigator in New York City

Heather Hunter- former featured dancer on the hit TV series 'Soul Train,'

Isis Nile - worked as a makeup artist

Jessie Jane- commercials for “Hooters”, Hawaiian Tropics model , a walk-on role in BayWatch: The Movie.

Johnni Black- United States Army Colonel

Debi Diamond- worked as the personal assistant to legendary film producer Robert Evans (of 'Chinatown' fame).

Hard to find alot of porn stars that worked before porn now a days. Alot are jumping right into it at 18 or they started out stripping or layouts ( about 90% )

 

[big lu]

porn trivia always makes a great topic............ ok here it goes..

Cheyenne Silver - worked as a stripper in Vegas at Cheetahs

Lucy Lee- a stripper in Hollywood at a spot called Crazy Girls



you know what? lets get all the strippers out of the way first.
Here's the pornstars I know of that started out stripping---->

Raylene, Lovette, Crystal Wilder, Gina Ryder, Justine Romee, Lennox, list goes on....... I'll come up with more as they come to me

Randy West- worked as a male exotic dancer

Isis Nile- she did work as a make-up artist but also before that she was an phone operater at Packard-Bell

Lisa Ann- was a lingerie catalogue model and also made money entering various bikini contests.

Johnny Keyes- was a Vietnam veteran

Ashley Rene- Playboy playmate

Crystal Gold- worked with handicapped kids & taught them how to ride horses

Cumisha Amado- worked as a nurse.... (heres a little fyi- she and Nina Hartley met eachother at a group-sex swingers party and Nina brought her into porn)

Ed Powers- worked in a sex shop in Times Square back in the 70's. He drifted from that into making home made amateur porn in NY then later moved to California and the rest is history

Tori Welles- ran away from home as a teenager and got caught up in prostitution. Then she moved in with an older lesbian lover that fully supported her (kind of like a Sugar Daddy....or Sugar Mama I guess.) They separated and she ended up in porn.

Victoria Paris- started as secretary in the midwest then moved to LA, worked at the Hollywood Tropicana as a mud wrestler and then...... you know the rest

Vannessa del Rio- began as a waitress and barmaid. She moved on to become a go-go dancer. One of her dancer freinds talked her into flying to Sweden together to do porn movies out there, (hence all those Swedish Erotica titles she starred in during the 70s)

Houston- claims she was a stunt double for Pamela Lee Anderson during BayWatch

Viper- a sergeant in the Marine Corps. (She looked like it...she was pretty scary looking)

Taije Rae- worked as a hostess at a restaurant in Las Vegas

Keisha- right out of highschool she worked as a phone sex operater

Julie Rage- was secretary in a county government office. She was also in the Marines.

Chris Cannon- was in the Marines too

Mr. Marcus- worked as male exotic dancer at a strip club in South Central LA called Tigers

Tiffany Mynx- became a single mother at a young age and so she worked for an escort service for the extra money

TT Boy- worked as a contruction worker

Steven St. Croix- was a bus boy in a restraunt while trying to secure work as an actor. His next line of work was as a male exotic dancer.

Delvin Weed- was a member of the Crips and did time in prison

Annabel Chong- I dont know what she was up to before she got into porn but I do know that she was using the money from those gangbang videos to pay her way through college

and the same goes with Dallas D'Amour. She's this hot half black/half asian chic from the 90s that used porn to support her child and pay her tuition through UCLA. Those stories always caught my interest ........ pornstars planning their future


and thats enough, thats going to be it for now, I'm tired of typing.....

great thread parker

i love the info

 

[ooahouch]

Read somewhere that Lauren Montgomery was working for disney

 

[sterlingmemory]

-Crissy M. used to work as a banker in Florida
-Jonhi Black used to be in the army
-Gwen Summers was going to school to become a nurse and needed a little extra cash.
-Juli Ashton used to be a school teacher( lucky kids
-Lori Micheals used to be a waitress, she was born and raised 2 hrs. away from were I live. Out in the middle of BFE. So I know she's doing good for all of mankind now.

 

[parker]

If I mention her enough, you'll all become brainwashed into the ways of the LDM...

I can feel another "rant" coming soon!


Back to the topic at hand...
Thanks for other contributions to this thread, esp. those of some of my personal favs, like Isis Nile, Lisa Ann, and Vanessa Del Rio.

I must say I found it hard to believe that Johnni Black was a Colonel - do you realize how hard it is to achieve that rank, especially for someone so young? So I did some checking and found this:

"Johnni Black's career path sounds almost as exciting (and sometimes as unbelievable) as many of her onscreen adventures. After studying psychology at the University of Illinois Johnni (aka Laura) joined the US army in 1990. She served as a paratrooper and field medic during Operation Desert Storm. She left the armed forces six years later holding the rank of captain. Together with her husband David (a former drill instructor) she settled down in California and entered the porn industry. Always a free-spirited exhibitionist, Johnni had already made six adult movies while she was still in the army. They were released after she quit the service."

The rest of the story, if anyone's interested, is here:

http://www.deluxearchive.com/johnni-black-pornstar.html

As for listing female pornstars that were former strippers, I know of few more, but I don't see the point in listing them. The fact is it's very common for strippers to go into porn. The reason for this was explained to me by a friend who did his doctorate in sociology on pornstars (and did a lot of research on them... but that's another story, ). Strippers are paid basically on a supply/demand type curve. Their demand greatly increases with increased name recognition. Therefore, a lot of strippers will go into porn for a couple of years to become "famous" enough so that they can then become "headliners" when they go back to stripping, thus increasing their income. For example, how many of you that frequent stripclubs would go see Miss X. Not many, right. How many of you would go see Chasey Lain (who went into porn for this reason, BTW)? Get the point?

 

[Romulus]

Ooops, she was a captian. My bad!!!

 

[PornLuvr]

I heard Calli Cox was a schoolteacher!!! I never had teachers that looked like that!!!

 

[big lu]

Hey Parker, I read a where you mentioned you are a fan of Olivia O'Lovely. OK, I have one more contribution to this list.


Olivia was fought in Womens amateur boxing before before she came into porn.

I don't know.... For some reason, ever since I found out that little peice of info about her, she has become even hotter to me than before.

:tongue:

 

[parker]

Hey Parker, I read a where you mentioned you are a fan of Olivia O'Lovely. OK, I have one more contribution to this list.


Olivia was fought in Womens amateur boxing before before she came into porn.

I don't know.... For some reason, ever since I found out that little peice of info about her, she has become even hotter to me than before.

:tongue:

Damn straight! Olivia's got it all, including the booty!
:banana:

Also, I might as well take this opportunity to include Devon Micheals. As I mentioned on her thread, she worked for years as a swimsuit model for mags like Musclemag and Ironman. Now she's become a full-time, 100% hardcore pornstar. It was a huge shock to me, but just the fact that I "knew" her before porn makes her twice as hot to me!