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SNAPSHOTS | | By Tod Hunter
Coming Home Ten years after, Ryan Conner is back where she belongs
Hometown: Santa Ana, CA | Age: 44 | Height: 5-foot-7 | Measurements: 42-34-44 | Hair: Blond | Eyes: Blue/Hazel
“I’m back,” says Ryan Conner. She was an active
with him perhaps five times, and I’ve had a blast every time.
performer from 1999 to 2005 and has been back since
I’ve worked with Prince Yahshua, I’ve had a blast with him
June of 2015. “Ten years. My daughter got in the
every time. I’ve worked with Jules, I love Jules. Mike Quasar I’ve
industry and she would text me or call me up and say
worked with. I love Mike. There’s a lot of new talent, and a lot of
‘Mike Quasar says hello, Bartholet says hello,’ and
switcheroos. A lot of talent is now directing.”
I was, like, ‘I miss those people.’ I got married, I got out of the
“I feel at home in the industry. Out in the real world you don’t
industry, I moved to Vegas. Sometimes the people we partner
mesh very well when you live life the way we do. You don’t fit in
with don’t have an easy time with what we do, so I stopped and I
with vanilla people. People look at you like you’re a streetcorner
focused on raising my daughter.”
hooker shot up with heroin. You have to have those circles of
Asked how things have changed during her hiatus, Conner
friends.”
said, “Let me count the ways. I’m making the same money and
Ryan Conner is represented by Nexxxt Level. Follow her on
I’m doing the same stuff, but there’s no craft services. It moves
Instagram (RyanConnerOfficial) and Twitter (RyanConner69).
slower. I come to set at 9 a.m. and I’m there till 5 or 6. There’s
Her site is RyanConner.com.
a lot more content. Not necessarily the sex scenes, but there
are a lot more pretty-girls, and they might add an intro—a lot of
companies do that, an intro where you’re dancing or flirting. And
they might do an interview afterwards. It’s a long day. And there
is a more aggressive nature about shooting now. I hope Playboy is
turning the tide with what they’re about to do and we see softer
Out in the real world you don’t
stuff. It seems that even the softer sex is how-many-times-can-
I-slap-you. A little bit is okay, but I’ve gotten feedback from fans
”I feel at home in the industry.
mesh very well when you live
that it’s too much. It was not unpleasant but it was a surprise.”
Asked what her best work is since her return, Conner says,
life the way we do.
“I think I had the most fun on Raw, with Manuel. I’ve worked
—Ryan Conner
Photos by Chris King/ReelSeduction.com
WHO’S WHO
Kleio Valentien
Hometown: Houston | Age: 30 | Height: 5-Foot-6 | Measurements: 32-29-36 | Hair: Blond | Eyes: Hazel
take last-minute gigs.”
started working in adult six years ago, in a scene
Kleio Valentien (pronounced “cleo val’n-TEEN”)
She says one of her favorite scenes was for Axel Braun in
for Burning Angel with Mr. Pete and Alec Knight:
Batman vs. Superman (for which she won an AVN Award for
“So my first scene was a threesome, and it was an
Best Actress): “I got to play Harley Quinn, and I got to do it
anal threesome,” she says with a laugh. “Not my
with Batman, which has always been a fantasy of mine. I grew
first time, but my first time on camera.” At the time she was
up with a lot of older cousins and we watched the show with
juggling two jobs, a surgical technician at a veterinary office
Adam West and I read their comic books. I just loved it. That’s
during the day, and bartender at night. “I had also never flown
how my thing for Batman started. I have Batman tattoos.
before, and I was living in Texas so I got to experience a whole
When I got cast as Harley Quinn I asked if I could do anything
lot of new things for the first time that weekend. I flew out
with Batman. Axel said yes, and it was a dream come true.”
here, shot three scenes that weekend, and then went back
Follow her on Twitter and Instagram: KleioValentien. Book
home. And it was amazing.”
her through Nexxxt Level.
She has grown her hair down to her shoulders and let it
revert to its natural ash blonde from the short-cropped white
bob she wore when she got started to get out of “that tattooed-
chick box” she started her career. “It took a little bit for people
to look past my tattoos and see me as a performer. Since I’ve
and I was living in Texas so I
started working for other companies like Wicked, they see me
do my scenes and say ‘I totally forgot you had tattoos.’”
”I had also never flown before,
got to experience a whole lot
Valentien moved to the L.A. area a year ago. She commuted
from in Texas when she started shooting, and then she moved
of new things for the first time
to New York for three years “and I was webcamming, and
that weekend
going back and forth from there to here. After work started
picking up, I decided it was financially better to just move out
—Kleio Valentine
here. I took a leap and it’s been great. It’s nice to be able to
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