Sasha Grey and 5 other porn actresses who have become real stars

In the adult film industry, there are many "own" celebrities known only to fans of the genre. But the history of show business knows cases when the fame of porn stars went beyond the XXX business. Let's remember 6 porn actresses who are not inferior in ratings to pop stars. How did they do it?

Linda Lovelace, 1949-2002

Deep throat blowjob, which Linda performed on camera, instantly made Lovelace the "face" of the porn industry of the 1970s. Of course, Linda Lovelace did not become the first porn actress. She became the first porn star.

Later, the actress admitted that she was a victim of a tyrant husband who forced her to act in porn. This is what the drama "Lovelace" with Amanda Seyfried is dedicated to. The film tells about Linda's strict puritan family, from where she ran away at the age of 19 with pornographer Chuck Trainor. As a result, he made a good profit on the film with the participation of his wife: "Deep Throat" collected more than $ 100 million at the box office!

The audience was struck not so much by the accessible frankness as by the theme of the film — fellatio, which at that time was a forbidden topic even for pornography.

After leaving the cinema, Linda began to fight for the rights of women, including actresses of the XXX genre.

The real name of the Hungarian porn actress is Anna Ilona Staller. She was born in Budapest, where, according to her own words, she worked as an intelligence informant under the guise of a hotel maid. The career of a spy did not work out.

Convinced of her own abilities, Cicciolina plunged into porn "with a run and a bomb." The first porn film with her participation "Red Phone" was released in 1983. In Il telefono rosso, she has sex with men, women, with everyone together. In the following pictures, Cicciolina had sex with transvestites and masturbated with a construction spatula.

At the height of her porn career, Cicciolina entered politics by joining the Italian Green Party. She successfully ran for parliament, made statements against scientific experiments, for sexual education, and founded the Party of Love movement.

Lolo Ferrari, 1963-2000

A Frenchwoman named Yves Valois has never been happy: she grew up an unloved child, she didn't have a dream.

Since 1990, before her death, Eva had 22 breast augmentation operations and as a result could not move without a special bra that engineers had developed for her.

Sasha Grey, 31 years old

Sasha is a phenomenon of the porn industry. Since her youth, she wanted to act in adult films and began her career at the age of 18 — consciously, without hesitation and doubt, not from despair and problems with work, and with the goal of becoming a porn star.

Two months after his 18th birthday, Sasha had 33 films on his resume! The producers were surprised not only by the debutante's efficiency and passion, but also by her image: petite breasts, modest manicure, natural hair color. She didn't even enlarge her lips!

The fame of the rebel quickly went beyond porn, and Sasha Grey became a kind of pop star. She got on the cover of Rolling Stone, became the heroine of the famous Esquire magazine column "Rules of Life" and, finally, played the main role in the Steven Soderbergh film "Call Girl".

Elena Berkova, 34 years old

Russia found out about Lena Berkova when she came to look for love on the reality show "Dom-2".

She did not become sad and released a new film called "Dom-2, or How to make love with Elena Berkova." The video became incredibly popular, and Elena was invited to shoot for several men's magazines.

Katya Sambuka, 27 years old

Katya is still far from the laurels of Sasha Grey and the popularity of Lena Berkova, but she, like the previous heroines, left the porn format and became a TV star. Katya's career began at the age of 16, when she married porn director Bob Jack (the couple gave birth to a daughter, Zvana, and divorced in 2015).

The husband came up with an erotic show for Katya, where Katya sang and danced surrounded by naked girls, and with Sambuka tours traveled around Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Poland.