Porn star of the 90s Annabel Chong: How to move smoothly from gangbang and BDSM to IT
In 1995, the porn movie "The Biggest Gangbang in the World" was released. The main character of the tape was a 22-year-old debutante of adult cinema Annabel Chong, who had sex with 70 men for 10 hours. The picture was made in the format of a TV show, and the legendary Ron Jeremy, the one who is now facing several centuries in prison for rape, acted as the host.
The performer of the main role in this boring porn movie by modern standards instantly became famous and quickly made a career. In general, Chong always quickly reaches heights in professional activity, and in any. Don't you believe it?
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As a rule, actresses of the piquant genre, having completed their careers, begin to engage in production activities in their own industry or, at worst, establish a charitable foundation and turn into social activists and defenders of penguins, Arctic glaciers or children. Annabel Chong was original — she went into IT and became a programmer in one of the major California companies.
Annabel Chong is a sonorous pseudonym that young Grace Kuek, who was born in Singapore, in a family of teachers, took to herself specifically for filming in porn. No one could even think that an excellent student and a participant in school drawing Olympiads would become a gangbang star.
In 1994, Grace, with the blessing of her parents, went to the United States, where she enrolled at the University of Southern California. The girl wanted to become an art critic and gnawed the granite of science at the Faculty of Fine Arts. But as often happens in such cases, the dream ship crashed on the rocks of life prose — a young student from distant Singapore began to experience a shortage of funds.
Parents, with their salaries of school teachers, could not help their daughter in any way, and the student began working as a stripper in local clubs. There she was noticed by porn industry figures who turned Grace Kuek into an adult movie star Annabel Chong in less than a year.
"The Biggest Gangbang in the World" became the most popular porn movie of 1995 and sold millions of copies worldwide on VHS and DVD. Very soon, old people-parents and friends in Singapore — found out about their daughter's new job - a sonorous pseudonym did not help. But Annabel Chong didn't care anymore — she was asked for autographs on the street, Jerry Springer invited her to his show, and Esquire magazine called her "antihero of the year."
In 1999, a documentary film was made about Chong, and in 2007 a theatrical production dedicated to her life was released. In 2008, Chuck Palahniuk himself wrote one of his most famous novels, Snuff, whose heroine was haunted by the laurels of Annabel Chong. But the triumph of pornodiva passed by her — the star disappeared as suddenly as it appeared.
In 2020, Vice journalists remembered Chong and found the former favorite of millions to interview her. To their great surprise, they found out that for the last 25 years Grace Kuek has not wasted time and has been actively earning in a completely different field. The star of "The biggest gangbang in the world" became a programmer and quite successful.
Grace told the press that she had not passed the test of fame. Not everyone admired the girl — in her homeland, in conservative Singapore, there were many detractors who sent letters with threats and curses to local newspapers. Annabel was even compared to Hitler and called a disgrace to the nation, and the girl's poor parents became the object of harassment from neighbors and complete strangers.
Frightened by the hype that arose around her persona, Grace decided to curtail her activities in the field of filming in adult films and returned to the strip show. In addition, under her pseudonym, the actress actively sold merch and cds with the same porn movie. There was less money, but Grace's life was much calmer.
In search of additional income, the girl began to be interested in website development and for this she mastered programming. She created her own online store that sold T-shirts, posters and other small things, with images of Annabel Chong. Later, the owners of the Crazy Horse strip club, where the girl worked, asked her to run the official website of the institution.
And Grace Kuek was helped to become a professional programmer by a case that can be called comedic. Sometimes a former porn star worked part-time BDSM, spanking clients or letting them spank herself. One of her guests turned out to be an IT specialist who offered a special erotic game.
The man was supposed to portray a strict head of an IT company, and Grace was his subordinate. The girl received a task from the boss, but could not fulfill it, for which he tore off her clothes and enthusiastically slapped her delicious ass. But it turned out that spanking was irrelevant, since the "employee" easily coped with the most difficult programming tasks. In an interview with Vice , Grace said with a laugh:
Acquaintance with the eccentric programmer turned Kuek's life upside down - she believed in herself and began to devote all her free time to studying and programming. Now everything is just fine in Grace's life — she has started doing what she loves and earning well. Kuek's last experience in the porn industry was in 2003, when she shot her porn version of the film "Neuromancer" by William Gibson, acting as a producer and director.
As for working in a new field, Grace had a hard time. She worked in a team where her past life was no secret to anyone, and therefore colleagues teased her. It was made worse by the fact that she was the only woman in her team. The guys in the office called Grace the "queen of the code," but they didn't allow themselves offensive jokes.
Grace Kueck quit her company in the summer of 2020, due to the pandemic, but was immediately invited to the position of frontend developer at a large entertainment company. Of course, they also knew who they were hiring, but professional and human qualities in IT are valued above reputation.
One day, the authors of a play about Annabel Chong asked her opinion about how she would like to see its continuation. To this, the woman calmly replied, "Do whatever you want with Annabel Chong, this person has been dead for a long time."