Niamh Shackleton
Chloe Cherry had shared some candid revelations about the porn industry.
The 26-year-old actress stars as Faye on hit HBO show Euphoria, but before taking up acting Cherry worked as as porn star.
While many would like to think that we now live in a more body positive world, Cherry revealed that wasn't her experience in the adult film industry.
Speaking openly to Eileen Kelly on her Going Mental podcast, the actress told the American sex educator in 2022: "The porn industry is so much more toxic when it comes to body image than the fashion industry.
"I’ve been in both, and in the fashion industry people just allow bodies to be, and I see girls of many different body types on sets and I love it.
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"Whereas in porn there was literally one f***ing body you could have, porn was so strict."
Cherry added at the time: "I don’t know why in fashion we understand that people like a lot of different kinds of bodies, but in porn it’s still a certain way."
The ex porn star also noted: "I think it is stuck there because I think all the people that run it are just old… It’s just like every other industry, it’s just run by a bunch of stupid old white men.
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"In amateur porn, which is viewed way more than professional porn, people have average bodies… but that sells way better than professional pornography; why don’t they take a tip from that and just have normal looking people in it?"
Elsewhere in the podcast, Cherry admitted she might not have sought work as a porn star if it wasn’t for her dad’s death when she was just seven-years-old.
She shared: "When I was seven, my dad was diagnosed with cancer, and then a year later he died.
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Cherry went on: "I always thought that if my dad lived that I would have just been normal. I would have just gone to college like a normal f***ing person and done just some random stupid job and have been some stupid normal person.
"Like, I wouldn’t be doing all this if my dad was still around. I wouldn’t be Chloe Cherry if my dad was still around.
"I feel like a lot of people who lose a parent around that age, around 10 or so, before you’re an adult at all, it’s really an interesting experience. It’s crazy how that really just messes with your world."
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