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“I didn’t ever plan on this becoming my
career, but when I hit that five-year mark
that’s when I realized it has become my
career and if I want to really excel—which
I have already—then I should only pursue it
further, which is why I continued.”
Riley Reid remembers having a five-year plan for her journey into adult
entertainment.
“When I initially started I had a goal in mind that was only to be in the
industry for five years,” Reid recalls. “And then on my five-year mark was
when I won like eight awards at AVN and became a Fleshlight Girl.
“I was kind of like well, I guess I’m not stopping now because I feel like I’m
only starting at this point.”
Reid’s AVN coronation came in January 2016. Fast forward to January
2019 and the now 27-year-old native of Miami without question has become
one of the most famous porn stars in the world.
The superstar performer continues to take care of business, too, making
a smooth transition into a savvy entrepreneur who is in control of her brand,
executive producing and directing AVN-nominated scenes for her official
website, ReidMyLips, as well as collaborating with other artists.
Now the subject of tens of thousands of raunchy internet memes based
on screenshots of her in various stages of pleasure during sex scenes, Reid
at press time had amassed 840 million video views on the adult industry’s
most trafficked platform, Pornhub, where she has 761K subscribers to her
channel and has been entrenched in the Top 5 Most Popular Porn Star
rankings for more than three years.
The 2016 AVN Female Performer of the Year hasn’t stopped winning either.
On January 26 in Las Vegas at the 36th AVN Awards at The Joint inside
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, she captured her 17th and 18th trophies—for
the fan-voted Favorite Porn Star Website and Social Media Star awards. It’s
no wonder why as Reid has racked up 1.1 million followers on Twitter, while
her main Instagram account was followed by more than a million prior to it
being deleted—her backup account @notbaconbooty had a following of
309K on just 21 posts in late January.
“I didn’t ever plan on this becoming my career, but when I hit that five-year
mark that’s when I realized it has become my career and if I want to really
excel—which I have already—then I should only pursue it further, which is
why I continued,” Reid explains.
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