I think it's more about girls owning their right to have a choice to do what they want with their life. “People think that girls in porn were all molested and are drug addicts and it's like a last resort,” she says, “but there's lots of girls with college degrees and lots of girls with other options. James shoots down the notion that all porn stars – particularly the women – must be victims of abuse or have deep-seated daddy issues. “I wake up every day just excited to work and to be around the people I'm around,” she says. It was a new way of life, and she felt it was where she belonged. Well aware that she either had to go all in or give it up, James made the choice that would change her life – porn, she concluded, was more than a way to let loose after her divorce or to escape the stress of her day job. “Every shoot you do brings you closer to another person finding out who you might not want to know.” “It was time to start thinking about where this was going,” she says.
James shot about ten more scenes in Chicago before she knew that she had a decision to make. “I'd always been an exhibitionist, and I'd always been wild,” she says. When the offer came in, it reminded her of a part of herself she had lost. She applied online and, one simple form and a few nude photographs later, she got a call from the company saying they wanted to use her. James became friends with a few women who shot for Burning Angel and found herself curious about trying it. Initially shocked to encounter adult performers in person, she quickly realized, “'Oh, you're around everywhere. “I come from such a conservative background that it was like, 'Oh my God, I met a porn star! And a stripper!' Which in the Midwest is a really crazy thing,” says James. She started hanging out at new bars and meeting people who were living different lifestyles. James moved back to Chicago – a place, she says, she had never really wanted to leave. With that, everything she had been holding back began pouring out. “We were great friends,” she says of her ex, “just not meant to married.” After one year of marriage, James and her husband split up. Meanwhile, things at home were deteriorating. “The whole team was freaked out,” she says. But she still couldn't avoid staring down the likely repercussions of an unhappy career: Soon after she started, her 35-year-old boss had a nervous breakdown. Hoping for a reprieve, James took a job at a mutual fund. I hated putting in that much work for something that did nothing for me, for anyone else, that was all just paperwork.” because my manager decided that some paper required more meticulous authorization,” she says, “and I would come home bawling my eyes out. “I would go in to work on Sunday at 4 p.m.
“I was this young, ambitious girl that really wanted to please her family, and do really well, and be successful,” she says. The petite brunette then got her CPA and took a job in the public sector. Sipping tea on a Saturday afternoon at Café 101 in Hollywood, James wears light make-up and jeans, and explains that her former life was completely tame.Īn only child, James grew up and attended high school in a Chicago suburb, then graduated from DePaul University – which bills itself as the largest Catholic college in the nation – with a double major in accounting and finance. (She's shot more than 70 scenes.) And, along with her new fiancé, who does porn part-time, she's a featured performer on, a website that produces X-rated parodies as well as full-length hardcore features. Represented by porn talent agent Mark Spiegler, she works regularly for such reputable companies as Burning Angel and Brazzers. *Porn Star Tasha Reign's Secret Life as a UCLA Studentīut since shooting her first scene – anal sex, in 2011 – she's blazed into the world of adult movies. *10 Sexy Photos From the History of Pornography (NSFW) *5 Nude Photos from Suicide Girls: Hard Girls, Soft Light (NSFW) A relative newcomer to the adult film industry, her pre-porn career was decidedly corporate: Before starring in triple-X films, she used to be a certified public accountant. James' professional attitude comes naturally. “Nah, leave it on,” says photographer Kelly Lind. “Should I take my bra off here?” she says, in the way a mid-level manager might ask if a memo is needed by the next morning. She tucks her thumb into the waistband of her skintight leggings and pulls the top of them down, then gazes up at the camera as if she's going to fuck its very lens.īut between clicks of the shutter, the seductive look falls off her face. Her breasts challenge the strength of the zipper on her shiny black half-shirt. Her black bob is perfectly straight, her almond-shaped eyes perfectly made up. On a cold, bright day, Veruca James poses in a stark spotlight on a stage in a downtown L.A.
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