Asia Carrera
Asia Carrera (Jessica Andrea Steinhauser in real life) was born in New York City to a Japanese father and German mother and is the oldest of four siblings. She studied piano as a child, and performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. When she was 17, she ran away from home because she felt her parents put too much pressure on her to succeed academically.
Carrera worked during the early 1990s as a dancer at several go-go bars in her home state of New Jersey.
After doing at least one photoshoot for an adult magazine, she put together a demo porn tape in 1993. At the end of that year she relocated to California to break into the pornography business.
As is common practice among adult film actresses, the name “Asia Carrera” is a pseudonym. According to interviews, she chose the stage name surname from actress Tia Carrere, intentionally misspelling it for legal reasons.
After her contract with Vivid expired in the mid 1990s, Carrera had her right labia minora pierced and has henceforth had a variety of 1/2″ gold rings affixed there ever since. At this time she also had her first breast enlargement, going from a medium B to at least a full C cup. She has had at least one subsequent breast surgery and is now a D cup or larger.
Carrera performed only a few anal sex scenes during her career. Her first scene in the movie “A Is For Asia” (a film to which she owned all the rights to) which occurred after her contract with Vivid finished.
Asia Carrera’s Official Web Site
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