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Like so many porn newcomers of the past couple years, Brenna McKenna found her way into the industry as a natural career redirection precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prior to that, she worked for a number of years as a dancer in the gentlemen’s clubs of her native Philadelphia—which she continues to do—but when the shutdowns brought on by the spread of the virus cut her livelihood short, it was time to branch out.
“I never thought about doing porn, ever,” McKenna says. “I just went to college and just thought I was going get a normal job. But I never got a real job, I just kept stripping.
“And then COVID happened.”
In the wake of such, she continues, “I started going to Texas, and I started stripping and ho’ing in Texas, and then I just was like, ‘I might as well start doing real porn.’ My best friend told me I should start doing porn. ’Cause I’m such a good ho.”
To back up, McKenna did in fact complete her collegiate studies (in fashion and business)— and paid her way through them by working into the wee hours at strip clubs the entire time. But the 9-to-5 grind was not the life for her, she determined. “I didn’t want to get a real job,” she confesses. “I hated it—I had an internship, I tried, but I don’t like being a normal person
at a normal job.”
Thus, at that crossroads toward the beginning of 2021, she dove headlong into the porno
pool ... and not the shallow end: Her very first pro shoot was an anal scene for Hussie Pass. In fact, with her relatively modest sceneography thus far (roughly around 50), McKenna has emerged as something of an anal queen, having appeared in a number of scenes across Mike Adriano’s famously anal-heavy network of sites, as well as like turns for LeWood, Pat Myne, Bang! and others, and eagerly pointing to her double-penetration debut last summer for Maestro Claudio’s DPDiva.com—administered by hard-hitting woodsmen Michael Stefano
and Ramon Nomar—as her favorite on-camera outing to date.
That being said, she has no specific aspiration she’s aiming for with her career, other than
to continue enjoying her time in it.
“I can do anything I put my mind to, I know that, so I can just pivot whenever, but I want
to stay happy,” she asserts. “I’ve been at a point where I didn’t see no happy ending for me, and that’s really depressing, it makes you feel like there’s no purpose. And now that I found the next level—because stripping has made me happy, too, that’s why I’ve never stopped doing it, even though I have degrees—I just want to keep it, and have the best time. And my ambition is just to love it until it serves me, and then just stay happy and find the next thing.”
In the meantime, one concrete goal she does have set for herself is to move to Las Vegas in the not-too-distant future.
“I want to be close to everything, I want to be in the mix,” she explains. “And I want to love it and just not ever be lost in a bad way ever again.
“I just kind of don’t want to waste more time ... like, life is just getting so good right now.”
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