‘MILF Jodi West on How She Became a Pornstar’ (VIDEO)
Sure, she now can boast a loyal fanbase across the world, but there was a time when Jodi West couldn’t imagine herself as an adult performer. The co-founder of Forbidden Fruits Films and one of porn’s top-tier MILFs discusses the origins of her porn career in this interview clip. (Check out the full interview, recorded in December 2017, on Adult Empire YouTube.)
Transcript
Okay, well, I was officially in real estate, both on the selling side and the mortgage lending side. And so I have a marketing degree from a party school, so woo-hoo, you know how to use that! But the market was going down, and my husband I had just started, for free, webcamming with other people on a local swinger site. And people looked at us and said, “Oh my god! You guys are so entertaining. You guys could totally do this and make money.” And we said, “We’re 40. Nobody wants to watch that.” And they’re like, “Yeah, a lot of people want to watch that.” And so we just kind of did some investigating, and you know, turns out I was a huge exhibitionist. I had no idea. Nothing could have been farther from what I would have thought of myself. And we just started doing little, you know, little clips here and there. And we started putting different clips on different things and continued webcamming. And this was 2008, ’09, ’10. And we just had a blast at it. We actually webcammed for about 200 days straight at one time for about an hour a day. And I mean, we were ripped. [My husband] Jay West and I were in phenomenal shape. And we had such a great time. And then it just kind of snowballed. We said, “you know what? People actually like our stuff. Why don’t we put it in movie form?” And then we started doing that. So in 2012, we started putting them in movie form, broke some molds, pissed some people off. But you know, we forged our own way.
