Stacy Valentine
- This article is about a retired American porn star
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Stacy Valentine (born Stacy Baker on August 9, 1970) is a former American porn star.
Adopted by her parents in Tulsa, Oklahoma and married at a young age, Baker was pressured by her second husband to get breast implants and pose for Gallery magazines amateur photo contest (voyeuristically named The Girl Next Door.) She won the contest, and parlayed this into a follow-up spread in Hustler magazine. Soon she was booked for two more layouts in Hustler. With her nude modeling career underway, Baker's husband gave her an ultimatum: him or the business. Baker ditched her husband and moved to Los Angeles to begin her adult film career.
Valentine took her stage name from the fact that she appeared in her first adult film on February 14 1996. Her last film was made exactly four years later in 2000. Valentine knew early on she did not want to be in the adult industry too long. "The goal when you get into the business is that you want to be a contract girl and you want to get the awards. I was a contract girl. I got the awards. I fought very hard to climb that ladder and I would be damned if I was going to climb down it. So I thought, this is a perfect time to make my exit."
Currently, Valentine lives in California working as a Director of Model Recruitment for Penthouse magazine.
The Girl Next Door
In the late-1990s, Valentine opened all aspects of her life for two years to director Christine Fugate (also the unblinking eye behind the 1998 PBS cigarette industry exposé Tobacco Blues). Fugate compiled the footage of Valentine into a critically acclaimed 1999 documentary called The Girl Next Door (not to be confused with the 2004 feature film The Girl Next Door of the same name). The documentary examines in an unflinching manner Valentine's life as a porn star, including her adult film work, cosmetic surgery, her self-confidence issues, depression, and difficulty with off-screen relationships. Of the documentary, Valentine said, "I want people to know that there's a real person behind the porn star image."
The New York Times review of the film had a different take:
Christine Fugate's melancholy documentary portrait of the porn star Stacy Valentine, suggests that the intersection of pornography and cosmetic surgery has given birth to a new genre of performer: the porn star as a human approximation of an inflatable sex toy. With her platinum hair, fat-injected lips, breast implants, and body planed by liposuction, Ms. Valentine doesn't look entirely real. Of course, that's probably the way her fans like it...her readiness to bare all emotionally as well as physically reveals a streak of grandiosity. Is it really an act of courage in this era of free-for-all confession for her to reveal so much? Or is it simply exhibitionism posing as truth-telling?
Partial filmography
- Crack Attack (2001)
- My Plaything – Stacy Valentine (2000)
- The Devil in Miss Jones 6 (1999)
- New Wave Hookers 5 (1998)
- White Angel (1998)
- My Horny Valentine (1997)
- Up and Cummers 31 (1996)
Notable television appearances
- The Roseanne Show playing "Herself" 17 May 2000
Awards
- 1997 XRCO Starlet of the Year
- 1997 Editor's Choice – Best New Starlet
- 1998 FOXE Fan Favorite
- 1998 Hot D'Or Frances' Best American Starlet
- 1999 XRCO Performer of the Year
- 1999 FOXE Fan Favorite
- 1999 Barcelona International – Best Actress
External links
- Review The Girl Next Door at the Internet Movie Database
- The official website for The Girl Next Door
- "The Girl Next Door" review
- Stacy Valentine at MySpace.com
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