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“I’m really proud of it all, actually. Just
everything that I’ve done.”
Willow Ryder holds a PhD in booty control with a license to twerk.
She can jiggle it. She can make it clap. She can bounce it from side to side and she can flex it.
If twerking was a team sport, Ryder would be captain.
“I love working out, so I weight lift and then I love taking dance classes,” Willow says. “I take
twerking dance classes.
“Growing up I played sports so I’ve always been interested in moving my body and doing
different things like that.”
Now when she moves her famous posterior, it’s become must-see TV.
The curvaceous native of Nashville, Tenn., in only three-and-a-half years has emerged as one
of adult entertainment’s brightest young stars, racking up more than 300 credits, capturing two
industry awards and landing the first-ever performing contract with the surging gonzo studio,
Ricky’s Room.
And the good news for her global fanbase is that she’s still only warming up.
“I’ve always said that I’m gonna be in this for as long as possible,” Willow says. “I just have
a lot of fun with it.”
It shows.
Thanks in part to her humble attitude, girl-next-door looks and the way she commands the
screen in her signature cowgirl position—among others—the 26-year-old former esthetician
has become about as sure a thing as it gets in porn.
Just ask Ricky Johnson, who was compelled to sign Willow to a one-year, multi-scene deal
in May, after numerous crowd-pleasing performances for Ricky’s Room.
“Willow is a superstar,” Johnson tells AVN. “She’s done great with the brand. She was great
from the first day we shot her and she has continuously brought her A game every single time.”
Johnson first encountered Ryder in a scene for Reality Kings in 2022—and he realized then
that she was built different.
“She’s always had that ‘it’ factor,” Ricky continues. “So signing her as our first contract girl
was a no-brainer to me. There are a lot of projects I have coming up that I want her to be in.
She was the first feature for the brand.”
Ryder proved she could play in the big leagues in her Ricky’s Room star showcase, Willow’s
Room, in 2024, when she threw down for her first gangbang, taking on five guys in a scene
titled, “Bang, Bang, The Gang’s All Here.”
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