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WHO’S WHO
Karma Rx: Finding a Home
Karma Rx brought a fearless attitude into her new career in porn, not
part of it,” says the 24-year-old native of the San Fernando Valley.
to mention a fan following that knows where she’s willing to go.
Before that, she was homeless—literally—for four-and-a-half years.
“My Snapchat has always been really popular because I do weird
“I slept on concrete and dug in the trash,” Karma says. “I had a drug problem. I have five-
shit,” Karma says. “I did a squirt show in the DMV. I did anal in Del
and-a-half years clean now.”
Taco. I did a lot of dressing room shows. People like the
She says her experience on the streets helps her keep the life she has now in perspective.
public stuff.”
“I’m grateful that everything in my life went the way that it did because I believe that I
Her penchant for going to extremes with her Snapchat
have the drive that I have because I was homeless,” Karma tells AVN. “I don’t take things for
videos turned into a lucrative side hustle while she was
granted and I work really hard for everything that I have in my life and I’m proud of everything
managing the vape and tattoo shop where she worked
I’ve accomplished.
for almost three years, “90 hours a week and getting
Karma, who left her ex-husband in late June, said porn was always in her sights. It didn’t
paid for 30.”
take her long to land an exclusive 60-day deal to perform her first boy/girl scenes for Mindgeek
“I booked people for tattoos
after signing with ATMLA for representation in August. Under the agreement, Karma shot for
and I managed the
the company’s various studio brands such as Reality Kings, Brazzers and Digital Playground.
e-cigarette
Karma, who has more than 908,000 Instagram followers, scores of subscribers to her
premium Snapchat and a ManyVids account ranked in the Top 15, said she watched a lot of
porn before trying it.
Just two months after deciding to go full force into adult, she’s well on her way to porn
stardom—at press time she had done six sex scenes so far. While none of them have yet to be
unveiled, it’s safe to say anticipation is mounting.
Karma, who had the nickname since she was 13, did her first pro scene on September 27
with Ramon Nomar in Florida—for Reality Kings. A day later she took on Sean Lawless and
then banged Nomar again for Reality Kings in her third scene the following day. She added
scenes with Charles Dera, Danny Mountain and Keiran Lee to her résumé in early October.
Meanwhile, her ManyVids profile, where she has 80 videos for sale, continues to be a
phenom along with her premium Snap.
“I’m always going to create my content but I don’t know if I’m going to do this live shit
content too much longer. It’s a really lucrative headache,” admits Karma, who skyrocketed
to No. 22 on ManyVids in her first month. “The reason I got to No. 22 in a month is I read
articles about how to increase your ManyVids score … I put work into everything I’m doing.”
—Dan Miller
Photos by Rick Garcia/@IndustryByRick
FRESH FACES
Quinn Wilde: ‘I’m Truly Blessed’
Quinn Wilde surprised everyone in her first anal scene this year.
by an agent in Florida who saw her on cam. But at first she wasn’t sure.
She performed so well with three-time AVN Male Performer of the Year Mick Blue for Tushy
“It’s one thing to dance on the pole and go home and no one knows
that she received an immediate invite to return.
and it’s another thing to physically be in front of a camera and shoot,”
“They liked it so much that they brought me back the next day for Vixen,” Wilde says of
Wilde says. “So I was like, I don’t know, maybe. I thought it over and I
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was doing modeling back at home and I told one of my photographers
“It’s nice to be able to kill the scene so well that they bring you back—and not only do they
who was a really good friend of mine. He was like, ‘Dude, I could see
bring you back, they bring you back the next day. They were blown away.”
you doing porn.’
The 21-year-old native of Denver is exceeding expectations on a regular basis as she makes
She made her hardcore debut in August 2016 in Florida, shooting
the rounds in Porn Valley, continuing to rack up high-profile credits just a year into her career.
for Reality Kings’ notorious CumFiesta site—another experience that
The former Hooters girl and stripper says her throw-down with Blue could not have gone
turned out to be easier than she thought.
smoother. “I was blessed and got with one of the best male performers in the industry,” Wilde
“I didn’t know what was going to happen because the only time I had
says. “He was like, ‘You tell me what you need.’ He was super nice and we were out of there
sex was in the privacy of my own place with someone I knew so it was
early. I was definitely lucky to have him as my first anal partner on film. It wasn’t a disaster.”
really different,” Wilde says. “They kind of gave me the rundown and
The next day for Vixen wasn’t a bad time either—not when she saw porn heartthrob Jean
the paperwork and I was like, ‘I’m really going to do this, I’m going to
Val Jean walk onto the set.
shoot porn.’ So I shot it and I started picking up more work when I was
“He’s a really good-looking guy, really sweet,” she recalls.
out in Florida. I shot for Mofos and Naughty America and Brazzers.”
Wilde was no stranger to adult-oriented work before porn—she had been webcamming in
Now with East Coast Talent, she says one of her best performances
Denver in addition to dancing at several gentlemen’s clubs around town when she was scouted
so far was for Bree Mills’ PureTaboo.com, where she was involved in an
intense, incest-themed scenario with Seth Gamble.
Wilde maintains a healthy separation between her porn life and
private life, looking forward to her time at home between shoots. She
attends college; her secondary focus is to become a dental assistant.
“I like to go to Denver and do my normal stuff and go to school and
then get on a flight and turn into Quinn Wilde and be this porn girl and
a freak and then be able to fly home and be with my family. Because
even though I’m in porn I’m still very close with my family.”
She adds, “That’s a big thing I’ve noticed in porn is some girls can’t
go home. I always think about how I’m truly blessed to be able to
disconnect.”
—Dan Miller
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