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Chanel Camryn tells me she listened to some timely advice from her mom two years ago as she was weighing her decision to do porn.
“It was something that she said to me when I told her I was thinking about it,” Chanel recalls. “My mom told me, ‘It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks, what their opinions are. “‘Because at the end of the day the only opinion that you have to live with is your own. If
you’re OK with it and you enjoy it, fuck everyone else. Because they don’t pay your bills.’ “I’m like, ‘You know what, that is the realest thing you have ever said.’ And that’s what I
tell people now.”
Now the 22-year-old, reigning AVN Best New Starlet calls porn “like my savior.”
“I love it,” Chanel says. “I get tired sometimes but I’ll never leave.”
She recalls what it took for her to fly to LA from her home in Alaska in April 2022 to do
her first scene.
“Porn was such a different moment for me because not only was I getting into what I was
going to find to be my career but it was the first time in my life that I ever took a risk,” Camryn says. “I had always taken the safe route because I came from such a beat background that I was like, I have to be safe. I have no safety net. I help my mom with her bills.
“There is nowhere for me to go, there is no spare bedroom for me if I get evicted from my place and I can’t pay my bills if I don’t keep my job.
“I always had to be so on top of things so that I could take care of everyone else.”
She worked in healthcare both as an administrator and a CNA before adult. She also was a bikini barista for eight months.
But going to LA was a gamble of a different kind.
“It was the first time in my life that I did something that was just for me. And it could’ve not gone well,” Chanel says. “I didn’t know what was going to happen...”
DAN MILLER
Editor-in-Chief