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Her mother and two younger sisters eventually found a new apartment. Kuzma refused to follow them to a new place and was left with her older sister Lorraine. And the same thing that later helped me to change my life when I was 18 and out of that world that helped me to get sober and helped me to gather the courage to go and do the work I needed to do, to look at some things in my life that were so ugly." After her mother broke up with Hayes due to his drug use, she began dating his friend. Lords has stated, "My damage drove me into porn. According to Lords, this and a rape by a 16-year-old boy in school she had been seeing, which she called "the single most traumatizing thing that ever happened to me in my life", would be what eventually drove her into pornography. He was a drug abuser and molested Kuzma in her sleep. She was angry at her mother and found a father figure in her mother's boyfriend Roger Hayes, as she calls him in her autobiography. During her early school years, Kuzma developed a rebellious attitude. In September 1982, she began attending Redondo Union High School but dropped out at age 15 to enter the porn industry. She did not see her father for many years after. When Kuzma was 12, she moved with her mother, her mother's new boyfriend, and sisters to Redondo Beach, California. "Hitman: Absolution has Traci Lords and Keith Carradine". Weeks later, she starred in her first X-rated movie.Smith, Tim (October 26, 2012). Given that the issue's popularity was through the roof, the demand for her was likewise. Sure, she'd nude-modeled for other publications- Velvet, Juggs -but it was in Penthouse that she began calling herself Traci Lords (though Penthouse got it wrong, spelled "Traci" with a "y"). Guess where that career started? That's right, in the September 1984 Penthouse. In July 1986, the very same month she abandoned her suit against the magazine, it was revealed that the most famous adult actress in the world, Traci Lords, had been underage for nearly her entire career.
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Only she wouldn't learn them until it was too late.Īctually, Williams would get her revenge on Penthouse, if only a taste of it and indirectly, a lot sooner than 2010. There were fifty thousand reasons not to trust him. In one case a prosecutor threatened a girl who was photographed from the waste up wearing a bra and therefore no more exposed than she would be at the beach. And recent issues where young people were threatened with CP prosecution for “sexting” which I think mostly involves just standing in front of a mirror. "For the upcoming third season of First Wave, Cade Foster has a new follower: Jordan Radcliffe". Williams was, things will eventually work themselves out.Gibson, Thomasina (2000).
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Maybe that’s the lesson, that if you are true to yourself, and Ms. In the end, I’m glad it worked out for her better than for Penthouse. Williams as a beautiful person who had overcome racism and challenges about which I knew nothing, but rather as a plaything to be enjoyed and leered over by young men with more money than common sense. Maybe there is a lesson in that? Thiry-six years later what I would tell you is that the photos were not designed to show Ms. I have zero recollection of the Traci Lords layout, but I vividly recall Ms. So yes, I bought a copy at the Navy exchange and I can say that I saw it. at the time, I was almost 21 years old, and I had a good job with no debt.
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The biggest story in the country wasn’t foreign policy issues or some shocking crime, it was (gasp), Miss America was naked! to come back from three months underwater with almost zero news was surreal. We had come back from Patrol 3 and while we had been able to watch the original pageant, I missed all of the build-up to the resignation of Ms. My submarine qualifications were proceeding well, and I had finished up my In-Port Fire Control Supervisor Board, meaning that I was almost useful as a non-qual puke. In the summer of 1984, I was in off-crew, having made my first of six deterrent patrols aboard USS Michigan. Source: Vanessa Williams and Traci Lords September 1984 Penthouse Issue – Illegal Penthouse Issue Backstory