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“I still have not fully comprehended that I won.”
Gianna Dior remembers thinking she wasn’t someone who could make a living doing any kind of modeling.
“I didn’t think that I was model material,” Dior recalls. “I didn’t think it was like a realistic thing. ... It’s a little bit different now—now that I have confidence.”
Different would be an understatement.
In less than four years Dior has gone from hustling between two jobs as a college student to becoming one of the top adult performers in the world—and she has eight AVN trophies to show for it.
The native of Andalusia, Alabama, a small town about two hours south of Auburn, in January became only the third woman in industry history to win the AVN Female Performer of the Year award after being crowned Best New Starlet, joining only Jenna Haze and Missy in the exclusive club.
The Spiegler Girl—who has the 2020 Best New Starlet title—on January 22nd also took home awards for Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene with Troy Francisco; Best Anal Sex Scene with Mick Blue; and Best Tag-Team Sex Scene for her throw-down with Rob Piper and Jax Slayher. All three of her scene honors came from her dramatic star vehicle Psychosexual, a Vixen Media Group production that was directed by Kayden Kross.
The unexpected triumphs on January 22nd turned the 39th edition of the AVN Awards into a historic evening for Dior, who only nine months earlier was worried she may not be able to walk again.
“I still have not fully comprehended that I won,” Dior says. “It’s been months and I still cannot grasp it. ... I thought I had a very small chance but I did not think that I would even be close.
“You can see from my expression when I won—I thought I heard it wrong. I was like, ‘Are you sure? Did someone say my name wrong or something?’ It was definitely an overwhelming moment.”
Her agent Mark Spiegler, who has represented seven of the past nine Female Performer of the Year winners, has been booking Dior since the summer of 2018, when she was about six weeks into the business.
“Obviously, she’s come quite a long way,” Spiegler says. “When I first talked to her she was in Florida and she said she wanted to come out to California. She left on a Saturday at 3 a.m. and got to my apartment [in the San Fernando Valley] at 1 p.m. on Monday—she drove straight through.
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