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“Through and through, this life chose me.”
Nina Nova credits her mother for instilling the values she carries with her today.
“My mom is a bad bitch,” Nova says. “She raised me really radical. I grew up in New
York City. I wasn’t raised in a conventional childhood.
“I knew from a young age that the sex education wasn’t accurate. It wasn’t what we
needed and I kind of decided do something about it.”
Did she ever.
Now about two-and-a-half years into her professional porn career and riding the
momentum of 2025 AVN Awards nominations for Hottest Newcomer and Hottest All-
Girl Collab, the ambitious starlet tells AVN in many ways she has only just begun.
Nova estimates she’s done almost 200 scenes so far—including all her content
collabs—and she takes pride in being an independent performer.
“I had an agent that booked me for one scene and then I’ve been self booking 99
percent of my career,” Nova says. “It makes it all that much sweeter being able to say
I did this, I am my own team.
“But you’ll never catch me saying I’m self made. People lifted me up so I could be
here.”
Nova says it requires an enormous amount of “tenacity” to self-book over an extended
period.
“It’s damn near impossible, but the biggest thing is the persistence I’ve had and
putting myself in the rooms I needed to be and believing in myself when no one else
believed in me,” she adds. “I can’t express enough the work I did to make it this far.
It feels awesome.”
A resident of Las Vegas for almost 20 years, Nova moonlighted in sex work while
she was a college student studying human sexuality and volunteering as an advocate
in the sexual health field.
“My major was human sexuality and gender,” Nina says. “Through and through, this
life chose me.
“I was always interested in sexual health and sexual liberation. Then a homegirl came
up to me and said I think you would be great in my cam studio.”
Open to the adventure, Nova worked out of the studio for about six months and then
started camming from her home. Formerly known as Nina Nightly before mainstream
porn, she cammed on and off for about nine years as she continued her studies.
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