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WHO’S WHO
FRESH FACES
Ryan Riesling: Look Then Leap
Hometown: North Carolina | Age: 24 | Height: 5-foot-9 | Measurements: 32B-27-36 | Eyes: Green
scouting many potential destinations before signing with OC
Modeling.
“I looked at several different agencies but I loved [Sandra’s] talent
roster. There were so many different girls that I looked up to on it.
I just liked her when she called me,” Riesling added. “I thought we
had the same kind of vision for a career.”
Now the leggy 24-year-old is only a few months into her porn
career—she debuted in December—and she’s ready to go big.
“I want to do everything. I want to see what it’s like just to
explore my sexuality on film, get to know so many different people,
try different things, push my boundaries,” Riesling said. “I really
want to grow as a person and I really want to explore this part of
my life on film in pornography.”
The 5-foot-9 performer was classically trained in ballet for 15
years, becoming the principal dancer of her ballet company. Even
though she thought ballet would be her future, she yearned for “the
college experience” after graduating from high school early at 17.
She earned a bachelor’s of science degree in statistics and recently
took a break from graduate courses in health science as she gets
acclimated to the adult biz.
Riesling told AVN she predicted she’d do porn someday.
Adult industry newcomer Ryan Riesling
remembers being intrigued by nude modeling
ever since she saw her first Playboy.
“I was just mesmerized by the beautiful
women and I was like, ‘I want to be like that one day,’”
Riesling recalls.
While in college in her native North Carolina she
started dancing at local strip clubs and then moved into
webcamming. Determined to learn more about the porn
business, Riesling researched the agency landscape,
“I’m a crazy only child and have always been doing weird stuff,
so it really wasn’t a shock to my friends or family,” she said. “I was
always very vocal about it, too.”
She did her first boy/girl scene for Reality Kings’ CumFiesta site
with Sonny Nash on the East Coast.
“I was so excited and so nervous because nothing can prepare
you for it once you’re there,” Riesling said. “Everyone was super
understanding and nice to me, giving me direction. I had never
done it before, obviously, and it was a lot of fun. I felt like I was
really in my element.”
Still less than 10 scenes into her
porn journey, at press time she was
preparing for another trip to Los
Angeles for her next round of shoots.
The self-styled “wine connoisseur”
who also still cams regularly on
MyFreeCams.com has also worked for
BangBros, Dare Dorm, Mike Adriano
for Evil Angel and Dogfart, which shot
her in a five-guy gangbang that was also
her first interracial scene.
In terms of career aspirations,
Riesling said she’s in it to win it.
“I take everything I do really
seriously. I didn’t want to just jump
in not knowing anything. I spent
many years researching porn, reading
everything I could. Read it, researched
it and talked to a million people before
I ever considered entering it. I wanted
to make sure I knew. I didn’t want any
surprises,” she said.
When she’s not on cam or doing a
scene, Riesling likes running, reading
and playing video games.
Book her through OC Modeling.
Follow on Twitter: @RyanRiesling.
—Dan Miller
Nami Dahlia: Holding Her Own
Hometown: Providence, RI | Age: 19 | Height: 5-foot-4 | Weight: 100 pounds | Measurements: 34B-22-32 | Hair: Copper blond | Eyes: Brown
going to sound so cliché, but Nicki Minaj: I
and a sandwich store in before moving on to stripping
Nami Dahlia worked at a gas station convenience store
relate to her. When I hear a song I listen to
in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, “and I wasn’t making any
the lyrics and the message behind the song.
money there,” she said. “My boyfriend always called me
A lot of the stuff that she’s talking about in
‘a porn star’ whenever we had sex, so I thought I’d give it a try.”
her lyrics, I can relate to. I did grow up on
Her first scene was for Reality Kings’ Black GF series in Florida:
music. I used to sing when I was little.”
“It went pretty smooth, actually. They told me I was good for a
Her plan is to stay a performer for
beginner. I learn fast. The sexual stuff came naturally; it was the
two years, buying a place in California
modeling parts I had to learn. I have to watch my angles. I can’t
and starting her own business after she
raise my chin up too high. It’s a bad angle.
stops shooting scenes: “I want my own
“The first time I watched a scene of mine, I cried. I thought I
production company, I want my own brand
had made a mistake.”
of toys, I want my own brand of condoms,
She has started working out with boxing: “It teaches you how
I want lubes. I want everything. I want to
to control your anger. They teach you how to keep a level head
work with other brands on the lube and the
when you’re angry. When I was in middle school, I got into a lot
condoms. As far as the production company
of fights. I am tiny, and I really wasn’t doing much damage. They
and the toys — I want my own. I have a
taught me that when you’re upset, it messes with your hand-
theme in mind.”
eye coordination. I learned how to harness my anger when I’m
Nami Dahlia is represented by Foxxx
fighting in a way that is going to make the person that I’m fighting
Modeling. Follow her on Twitter:
more hurt than me.”
@namidahlia.
Dahlia says she gets a lot of her inspiration from music: “This is
—Tod Hunter
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