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“Even when I won it the first time,
I couldn’t believe it.”
Considering that at the beginning of her career she juggled two jobs, flying to L.A. to shoot
and working as a full-time physical therapist, the climb has been nothing short of remarkable
for The Internet’s Stepmom.
“I was on a little Zoom interview for Filthy Femdom the other day and the host was saying
that after watching one of my scenes, she decided to move from being a dominatrix in a
dungeon to being a dominatrix on film,” DeVille says.
“And just hearing stories like that from people, I’m like, ‘Wait, I influenced you? Like oh my
god.’ It’s really surreal and amazing.”
Born in Durham, N.C., and raised in Washington D.C. and Cape Cod, Mass., DeVille excelled
as a traveling physical therapist before she ever stepped onto a porn set. Her 13-week PT
assignments took her to places such as St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Florida, Virginia Beach,
Va., and Nashville, where she lived for five years.
“I lived there at the same time that I was performing for a multitude of years, maybe at least
the first three years of my career,” DeVille recalls. “And even in Nashville, I was actually half
the year in Nashville, and the summers I spent on the shore in New Jersey.
“So I would just travel back and forth from wherever I was for a week, sometimes two weeks
a month to Los Angeles until I was like, ‘This is ridiculous.’ … It was overwhelming. And I
missed my dogs when I would travel. So it was time to just commit to this career and be in
L.A. where almost everything is happening and really do it.”
Represented by OC Modeling, DeVille filmed her first scene with retired performer Holly
Michaels for Seduced by Mommy 3 (Filly Films), which was released in 2012. She did only
girl/girl for more than two years before signing a short-term contact with Brazzers for her foray
into boy/girl performing.
“The first one I ever filmed was with Keiran Lee [in 2014],” recalls DeVille, whose third MILF
Performer of the Year victory followed back-to-back honors in 2018-19. “Although I think they
launched one of the Johnny Sins ones first.”
DeVille says the reason she didn’t perform with guys from the get-go was because “I had a
lot of misconceptions about the porn industry in general coming in.”
“And having watched porn I felt like maybe some of this male talent is so aggressive and
their dicks are so big and it just felt really intimidating from afar—from Nashville,” she explains.
“But after I’d been coming to L.A. for a while, even though I was only shooting girl/girl you’d
end up seeing male talent around—friends of friends, extras on set, things like that. And I was
like, ‘They’re pretty cool, you know?’
“I think as soon as I first started actually meeting some of the guys my comfort level
increased and then I was like, ‘OK, this is cool. Let’s do this.’”
More than a thousand credits later, the rest is porn history.
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