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“She just has a natural talent for porn.”
—Riley Reid
Riley invited Ryan to her birthday party that same weekend in L.A.
“And I was like I’m from Pittsburgh. That’s like almost impossible,” Ryan says. “And at the time
I was a cosmetologist and I was like you know what, why not spend my savings that I have
at this point on a flight to L.A. and I went to her birthday party. And we became really good
friends instantly, we just clicked.”
Riley Reid recalls how she didn’t believe Ryan was an actual person at first.
“I definitely thought she was a catfish!” Riley says. “The photo with the shoe on the head is
real… I thought it would be hard to find a picture of a girl with a shoe on her head!
“Honestly, in the beginning she was just a hot girl who I was friends with. I invited her to a
birthday party and she flew out to come and meet me. It was super random but at that time I
wanted to be surrounded by hot girls for my birthday! Her and I hit it off really good and became
really close friends. Over the next few years we grew closer and closer and are genuine friends.
“I know her mother, and we’ve had a lot of really intimate moments that brought us really close.”
After their initial hangout, Ryan returned to her life in western Pennsylvania for another year,
keeping in touch with Riley primarily on social media.
“And then her birthday rolled around again and she was like, ‘Are you coming to my birthday
again this year?’” Ryan says.
Now in a better financial position with an OnlyFans and premium Snapchat to go with her salon
job, Ryan didn’t hesitate, flying to L.A. again for Riley’s birthday and then staying even longer.
“And I was like, I kind of think I want to move out here,” Ryan says. “I kind of want to do this,
this seems fun. This seems like something I’m 100 percent into. I ended up staying an extra
week or two and doing collabs with other performers. And I was like this makes sense to me.
This feels natural, I don’t feel like I’m doing work.”
When Reid got back to Pittsburgh she talked to her mother, who wasn’t thrilled with the idea
of her youngest daughter moving out. But Ryan had her mind made up and a month later, she
loaded up a U-Haul and drove to L.A. in three days.
She stayed in a less-than-ideal, shared AirBnB room inside a house when she got to Cali.
“I was picking out clothes every day out of the U-Haul living in this AirBnB and then looking
every single day for apartments, nonstop,” Ryan says. “And finally I found one. It was the last
day I had the AirBnB rented for. It’s weird how it all worked out.”
When she got accepted for an apartment, she wasn’t able to move in for three more days so
she lived out of her car.
Riley says once she realized that Ryan was serious about doing mainstream porn that she
was glad to steer her in certain directions.
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