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AVN.COM | 11.23 | EDITOR’S NOTE
EDITOR’S NOTE
Vanna Bardot began working as a hair salon assistant at 15, becoming so good at shampooing clients that she sometimes got $40 tips.
But when she turned 18 it was time for a change.
“I decided this just isn’t making me happy,” Vanna recalls. “I don’t see myself staying in this profession and feeling fulfilled. So I said fuck it... I had a friend of mine who was two years older than me and she had already been doing camming and stripping, so I kind of started with her and she showed me all the ropes.”
Our November cover girl tells me she was always fascinated with sex work. So not long after her 18th birthday in 2017, Bardot stripped for the first time at PT’s Centerfold Gentlemen’s Club during an Exxxotica Expo in Denver.
“My friend [Rosie Jones] was living in Denver at the time, so we went to Exxxotica together and we feature danced at the club that was like the Exxxotica host party,” Bardot explains. “That was a crazy experience. ... It was exhilarating but I was so nervous and such a baby. “I had danced before—like for ballet—but dancing sexy and naked on a pole was definitely a new one for me. I loved it.”
After that outing, Bardot returned to her hometown of Miami where she danced at Scarlett’s Cabaret. Prior to that she also tried MyFreeCams for a stint but admits it wasn’t her strength. A few months later, she took a long break to visit her dad in Scotland to figure out her next step in life. She returned to the States about nine months later, at 19, staying in Denver
again with Jones.
“I think I stayed with her for two months,” Vanna says of the spring of 2018. “We were
dancing and camming together but I knew I wanted to do porn. “I knew that’s where my end game was at.”
DAN MILLER
Editor-in-Chief