Porn star Lana Rhoades slams X-rated industry: ‘Make it illegal’

07.10.2022 - 04:17 / nypost.com

The Skinny Confidential Him & Her” podcast that she was still scarred from the experience, declaring: “I just I don’t think that it’s good for anyone. They should make it illegal.”Rhoades — who recently revealed she had a baby with an unidentified NBA player — was just 19 when she appeared in her first X-rated scene, saying she was naive as to what she was getting into.

“For some reason I never comprehended that to do porn you actually have to have sex with people,” she said, claiming she had only been intimate with one person before making her industry debut. The Illinois native said she was enticed to enter the porn industry after becoming enchanted by the glamorous lives of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends on the TV series “The Girls Next Door.”“I watched the show and I was like… their lives look so glamorous compared to mine,” she stated.

The star recalled thinking that she was “here trying to stop my sister from committing suicide everyday and I could be jumping out of a trampoline into a pool in this big mansion.”Rhoades worked as a waitress and then as a stripper before relocating to Los Angeles to kickstart her professional porn career. The teenager quickly found instant success, becoming the most searched porn star on Pornhub with a whopping 345 million views.

But the beauty — who was raised in a religious household — hated the feeling of “performing” in porn, telling the podcast: “It’s like circus acts. As a performer, when I was doing it, it was like ‘What face can I make?’, ‘What sound can I make?’, ‘ What can I do in this movie to make it the best one?’ “She also claimed the industry was “infested with drugs and alcohol abuse.”She left the field in 2017, although she continued to record and release amateur videos