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Nikki Knightly: Model Behavior
Home State: California | Age: 23 | Height: 5-foot-6 | Weight: 115 pounds | Measurements: 32-25-34 | Hair: Brown | Eyes: Hazel
been doing boy/girl scenes since spring 2015
S outhern California native Nikki Knightly has
hours, and it was like 30 degrees in the studio and I’m
with the lighting and the color scheme.”
butt-naked, covered in paint, with heels. It’s literally
When we talked to her before the AVN Adult
after starting as a model. “I’ve been modeling
cold water that they’re painting you with.”
Entertainment Expo, she expressed her excitement
for five years. My first shoot was a lingerie
“I love having sex,” she says matter-of-factly about
about attending the show. Particularly she valued the
shoot, then I started doing nudes. Went into
her career choice. “It’s definitely an adrenalin rush,
opportunity for “meeting new people and getting the
nude modeling. I started meeting porn people. As I got
having sex on camera. I definitely get something out
experience, because I’ve never experienced it before.
more comfortable, I started doing more things like solo
of it, not just the pleasure. Maybe it’s the attention.
Being around the whole atmosphere. It should be an
scenes.”
I love the attention. I also love seeing the end result.
overall good time.”
On the mainstream side, she was a model on the
GSN body-painting competition Skin Wars:
“I was on the first season, and my
artist won. The longest night I
worked was 14 hours. I was
getting painted
for five to
eight
Watching the movies. I’m not going to sit there and
Knightly plans to stay a performer for five years,
masturbate to my own scenes—I’ve tried, but it’s
if not longer, “and I plan to get as much out of the
weird—but I love showing my scenes to my friends.
industry as I can. There are specific career choices that,
It’s exciting to see how excited they get.” She says her
if you do porn and it catches up to you, it would be
best scene so far is “also my favorite. It was for Teen
bad. For me, I’m an artist and I know my passion is
Fidelity, with Ryan Madison, and it’s
art. I’ll just open my own art gallery and sell my own
called Women of the Middle
stuff. I want to be able to use the money I save from
East. It’s been out for
porn to do something else. I might just use that money
a while. It was
to start my own art thing.”
well shot
Nikki Knightly is represented by Nexxxt Level.
Follow her on Twitter and Instagram: NikkiKnightly.
—Tod Hunter
WHO’S WHO
FRESH FACES
Rachel James: Eyes Wide Open
Home State: Michigan | Height: 5-foot-5 | Age: 20 | Weight: 110 pounds | Measurements: 34A-24-35 | Hair: Blond | Eyes: Blue
L ook out, mainstream world:
interracial scene: for Blacked.com with
there’s a brain lurking behind
Flash Brown. “I was so nervous and
the beauty of 20-year-old newbie
I thought at that point I couldn’t be
Rachel James—and she intends
nervous anymore before my scene, but
to use it!
I was all sweaty hands and shaking and
“What I actually really like
I couldn’t eat, because I’m really small
about porn is the people, the open-
and his you-know-what is huge, but he
mindedness, and nobody’s judgmental
didn’t hurt me. He knew what he was
because they’ve seen it all,” James said
doing, and it turned out wonderful,
when talking about how working in
and the content that Greg Lansky from
adult has opened her mind and dashed
Blacked.com shot was really beautiful;
some preconceptions. “It brings you
it was like a mini-movie.”
a sense of comfort with yourself and
Another of her favorite scenes was
it’s really helped me find out who I
in the movie Our Morning Ritual, with
am and what I like and don’t like and
Alice Green and Jordan Ash.
how to stand up for myself, and I also
“It was my first boy/girl/girl scene,
saw the most beautiful souls that I’ve
and I am definitely fascinated with
ever seen in my entire life. There’s just
women more than men in my personal
nobody out there like that, and it just
life, but to have both the penetration
gave me a passion to work with more,
of a man and the essence of a woman
and then I fell in love with the art of
at the same time, it was very powerful
photography and the lighting and the
for me and I think it was the first
cameras.”
time I really had an actual orgasm on
Most of the pre-porn sex Rachel
screen and I couldn’t hold it back. It’s
was having was of the girl/girl variety,
memorable, and it was one of the first
but according to her, working in the
scenes I did.”
industry has opened her eyes—wide!
Rachel’s private life is fairly quiet.
Rachel, who says “I look like a
“I’m kind of a homebody, to be
classic white girl,” described her first
honest,” she shyly admitted. “I grew
out of my partying stage. I like to read
non-fiction, things about history—I’ve
been reading up on the Holocaust
because I’m Jewish; not by religion but
by name and ethnicity—and things
about science and philosophy. I play
the bongos and I also snowboard, so
those are some of my hobbies and
interests. If I had more free time, I
would be doing more of those things.
“I’m also very interested in
photography; not with people so much
and nudity, but more of people and
their general reactions: them being
them. You catch them in the moment
of them being true to themselves;
that’s what I love, when they don’t
know they’re being captured. I do
black-and-white film roll photography,
and that’s also fun.”
Book her at ATMLA and follow her
on Twitter: RachelJames_XXX.
—Mark Kernes
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