Alix Lakehurst: Real Porn from Chicago [Interview]
Posted at 3:39 PM Aug 06, 2008
Chicago-based adult model and writer Alix Lakehurst blogs and hocs her wares on her website We Could Be Naked. She's an interesting and honest voice in the adult industry - well worth reading, and not just because she shows off her boobs a lot.
Naked City editor Audacia Ray asked Alix about entering the porn biz in her 30s, being curvy, working in Chicago, and being an exhibitionist.
Audacia Ray: You came into modeling and the porn business later in life than the average porn girl – what drew you to the business? When you were in your early twenties, did you think you'd be doing porn in your thirties?
Alix Lakehurst: I spent my 20's drinking, smoking pot and doing coke. This sounds bad. I grew up in a very stable family, my parents loved me but I was always rebellious. The addiction came way before my foray into porn. I didn't start porn because I was raped, beaten, or abandoned. In fact my main decision to start getting naked was when I was completely sober.
Around 30 I met Mike McPadden- the one and only Selwyn Harris- who edits Mr Skin here in Chicago. He loved the way I talked very dirty. I was uninhibited, loved running around naked and getting my picture taken. I started writing for him.
I landed a coveted interview with Christy Canyon and couldn't believe how beautiful and centered she was. I met my porn idol, and I felt a kinship with her immediately.
Growing up with big boobs, I wasn't fond of them. But she made them sexy and real. I blogged my journey to that interview on Road to Christy Canyon and occasionally showed the comparison of our breasts. My popularity grew and I started We Could Be Naked. The modeling and porn offers followed. I don't work every day in fact I'm lucky if I get a paid job a month but I have no problem having a staple on my belly button. I mostly work on my site and what I want to accomplish with it.
To answer your question, in my twenties, I thought I'd be dead by my thirties.
Three more questions and their answers, plus more pictures, after the jump.
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When I design lingerie or when I need to decide on a project or a look for a show or whatever, if it’s linked to my brand I will think of something I would like to see happening in other brands. I try to think as a consumer, I think of the demand. I don’t want to be the stuck up designer bitch who saw the light and is so nice to share her wisdom of what we plebeians want. I don’t want that and I don’t need it. If I see a brand I need to feel that the people behind it have it in their blood. I want to be seriously crazy about it. In love with every single one of their products, willing to lose and arm for it. I want the product to be clever but also naïve in a way. I want the designs to become a second skin that draws the eye of the beholder to where I want it. And the next time I hold that piece, I want it to give me a flash back of every single memory it holds, of each adventure it had. I want that adventure slightly showing by my blushing cheeks. That’s how I do my designs – ior at least I try to.
Audacia Ray: Do you consider yourself a nudist or a naturist? Is there something about the Gorge that inspires you to take it all off, or are you an across-the-board appreciator of nudity?
So she'd pose and I'd light her with red for 4 seconds, then she'd jump down, I'd jump up, lay down and she'd light me with blue for 3 seconds---then I'd quickly jump off before the flash went. Alas though, trying to speed up our gig, on our second attempt I was just jumping off the alter stone when the flash went and blinded me and i jumped off and SLAMMED right into one of the Stonehenge monoliths!! OUCH, I wailed my hand, thumb and nose right into the rock-- I couldn't see it at all because I had been blinded. The picture above is the photo that the flash captured before I slammed!
and her primary focus is on couples - not just te ones tht are in trouble, but ones who want to strength their relationship and erotic bond.
