JENNA PRESLEY – “Just because I do porn, does not make me a whore in real life.”

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two part interview with Jenna Presley. The second installment will be featured in next week’s issue.

So how fucking huge are Jenna Presley’s cans?! Yea, we’re feeling a little flush too. WHACK! just recently had a nice chat with the bubbly brunette to talk about life, career, and Hooters – the restaurant, not her cans. Sorry fellas, but we’re pretty sure you’ve gotten your fill of them for the week.

WHACK! Magazine So, how are you?

Jenna Presley I’m good, I’m good, how are you?

W! I’m great. I want to thank you for taking some time out to talk to us. I’m super excited that you’re excited, too!

JP I am excited! I messaged you that I hope you’re a creative thinker, cause I do interviews a lot! But I’m excited to do my first interview for WHACK! Magazine.

W! Well thank you, very much! I hope my questions are good.

JP You’re so cute! No pressure!

W! I wanted to ask you to tell me about is this thing that’s going on with you and the management at Hooters, about your tattoos

JP Oooooh, lovely, yes, ok. I went in to apply at Hooters, and the manager told the girl that works there, ‘Hey tell her she’s what I’m looking for. I don’t have time right now to talk to her, so tell her I’ll talk to her on Tuesday before 4 o’clock.” So I come back on Tuesday and I asked for the manager. And the girl says, “Oh, um, he’s busy. Let me have you fill out an application.” So I did that, and then she took the application back and then came to me and said, “Ok, so the manager says he’ll call you in two weeks if he wants to hire you.” So I realize that this girl is playing a game, so I go, “Well can I get a business card or something?” She looks around and goes, “Oh, shoot, we don’t have any.”
So I go, “Will you be a doll and just go ask your manager for one, please? If it’s not too much trouble?” And so she brought me back a business card and I called the next day, and said, “Hey I turned in an application yesterday and I just wanted to come in and interview because I’m in the area.” He said, “Absolutely, that’s fine.” So when I went in, I saw the manager and we started talking, and he couldn’t find my application by the way. She threw it away!
So, he had me fill out another one, and we’re talking, and he saw a little bit of the tattoo on my neck and said, “Ok, well, that tattoo can be covered, but we can’t have any that will show in uniform.” And I look at him and go, “What!” And I start laughing. “You have a full sleeve and you’re asking me if I have any more tattoos!” And he says, “I know, I know, I’m supposed to have these covered.” So I show him the tattoo that I recently got on my arm; it’s a pink and a purple flower because my favorite color is pink and my sister’s favorite color is purple. And she got the same tattoo on her inner wrist. And in Hebrew it says “big sister” and hers says “little sister.” So it’s a tattoo that has a lot of meaning. And he basically, after telling me that I was exactly what the corporate office had been asking for—they’ve been looking for more glamorous chicks as opposed to girl next door—then he tells me that he can’t hire me, after he was writing up a schedule and everything! I said, “You have to give me a second chance. I have a tattoo cover-up and it’ll work. It covers tattoos.” He says, “Well we’ve had girls with that before and it rubs off. I go, “Oh no no no, I have like this stuff that I used in a music video and they wanted my tattoo covered up”—I was totally lying—“and like fourteen hours of sweating later the makeup didn’t wear off. I had to go home to get it off.” And he’s like “Ok, come in on Monday and meet with the general manager, and have it covered up, and we’ll see what he says.” He told me to dress like I did today, basically with my tits hanging out, and he doesn’t think the general manager will notice.

W! laughing I guess that will distract him.

JP I mean, four times I’ve already been into Hooters, like, just hire me or don’t hire me! They’re stringing me along.

W! Do they know the industry you’re coming from?

JP Um, I didn’t specifically tell them about my work just because people are very judgmental, and although I personally have no problem with it, I just don’t want to go into Hooters with all these girls thinking of me as being gross, or any judgments that they might have towards me, or anything like that. People are cruel, so I just told them that I’ve been living in LA doing various jobs and hosting parties. I told them parts of it but I didn’t give them the full story.

W! Well that’s probably good, given how much they freaked out about the tattoo.

JP Exactly, exactly.

W! On the spectrum of how most people feel, tattoos are probably somewhere around the middle. And I feel like if that’s how they felt about the tattoo, then the adult industry would be near their bottom.

JP They’re looking for more glamorous girls, is what he told me. Girls that look like me. So basically they want girls with double D’s but they’re going to critique tattoos. I mean, beggars can’t be choosers, if they want girls with double D’s then they should take some girls from the sex industry and not have a problem with it. When I went into Hooters, I gotta tell you, I didn’t not see any hooters.

W! Yeah, aren’t they’re going for more of a family-conscious image now?

JP Yeah but they’re trying to change it now. Because with how I looked when I went in, he was like “I have to hire you,” but then with the tattoo, he couldn’t, and so now I have to have it covered up.

W! Yeah… I’m sure they probably were making more money when they were showing off girls with big tits than they are now.

JP I know! I wonder what happened. Like, maybe all the girls with big tits were like, “I can make way more money going into adult films instead of applying at Hooters!”

W! But you are kind of doing the opposite thing. You are applying at Hooters and already working in adult films. In case the readers don’t know, can you give us a little bit of background on why you’re doing that?

JP Yes. Well, I’ve been in the industry for four and a half years. Which means a lot of money. And I put a lot of it into a CD account, but the other part of it I take for me, and you know, I want to live a normal life, without all this money. I want to go back to school and get a career, because porn is something that… Well, some people age gracefully and they can do it for the rest of their lives, but I’m twenty-two. Who knows what I’m going to look like when I’m forty? So I’d much rather find a career where I need an education. I’m choosing to go to school and get a degree in public speaking and counseling, and what I want do with that is help girls with eating disorders. A lot of fans used to struggle with anorexia.
It’s very important to me to raise awareness of what a true disease it really is, because when I was going through treatment it was really hard to even find treatment because insurance [companies] won’t cover it. They didn’t think it was a disease. They thought it was, you know, just this girl trying to be skinny, and this and that. So that’s what I’m getting into.
So in the meantime I’m shooting just a couple scenes a month, just so I don’t have to struggle like when I was in college before porn, when I was working three jobs. This time I want to shoot a couple times a month so I can make some money and have some fun, and then just get a normal job at Hooters so that I can remind myself what the value of a dollar really is, so that when I do go into working as a career woman, I’m not going to be complaining about my paychecks, because it will be the decision that I’ve made.

W! Wow. That’s really amazing. That shows a lot of foresight. Rather than thinking that you’re gonna just make a fortune now and live off of it, that’s really impressive.

JP Thank you.

W! So, how far into that process are you?

JP I just sent in an application saying that I wanted to apply. With the economy now you can’t just walk into most community colleges. You have to apply to be put into the school because with people losing their jobs they’re going back to school so they can get hired higher up in their field. So I sent in an application saying that I want to apply at a community college and then I’m just waiting for a call back. And when that happens then I do that, and then I go back in December to pick out classes, and I believe classes start in January.

W! Wow, great. You said that you’re planning to do public speaking and counseling…

JP And counseling, yeah. I’m not sure. For instance, I’ve already helped 44 girls and 7 guys get into treatment, just through who I know and public speaking that I’ve done in schools and stuff. And I had a MySpace set up years ago that was under my real name, and I helped all those guys and girls get into treatment. So, I do want to go into public speaking, but I also want to be able to go sit down in an office and be a shoulder for a girl to cry on, and to counsel them. And I always want to be able to do that if I decide to.

W! I was thinking about how you are probably in a very unique position to help people who have anorexia and body image problems because obviously you went form someone who had serious body issues, and ended up going into first stripping and then porn, where your job is to show off your body. I feel like that just shows a huge amount of resilience and an ability to recover fully and hopefully that will speak a lot to people who have body image issues.

 

JP Right, it’s… It’s hard to explain… When I got into the industry, I was told that I was too fat. And I was hundred and five pounds. I had gotten released from the eating disorder clinic when I was eighteen and I started school. And shortly after being in school I got into the industry and I was told I was too fat. And here I am thinking that I’m all better, and then I had to go back into starvation mode, and I lose too much weight, and then I was told that I was too skinny. I mean, there’s no happy medium in the industry. You’re either too skinny or too fat. And people were never happy with my body when I was in it.
So then, when I was trying to help these girls, I’d be hearing things like, “Oh my god, I’m so fat, I had three apples instead of two today.” And I’m thinking, “Oh my god, I just cooked a big steak dinner with like mashed potatoes!” So, it was definitely tough, and then finally, I left the agent that I was with that was telling me I was too fat and too skinny. I represented myself for a little bit, and then there were companies wanting to hire me that were calling me. Obviously they didn’t care what my body looked like. They liked what my body looked like. And then I signed with A-list later on, and I was still being booked for things, and nobody booking me was talking shit about my body or saying that I was too fat or too skinny. I think it was just the agent. But he really made it tough because I had just gotten out of the hospital for anorexia. I went from fifty-two pounds to a hundred and five.

W! That’s ridiculous. What a terrible thing for a person to say. He obviously wasn’t thinking, or was thinking too much and was a terrible person. Anyway, I talk to a lot of women who say they can’t stand watching their own scenes because they always find something wrong with their bodies. Is that particularly the case for you? Or do you not mind now?

JP I’ve actually never watched one of my scenes.

W! Really?!

JP Because I don’t really care. When I got in the business and I was given my first DVD, I just looked at the cover and I looked at the back, and I just… That’s all I’ve ever done. I don’t watch any of my movies. And I’m just not curious. And I don’t need to see it. I’ve actually only ever watched one porn in my life, and this was on TV. I mean I’ve seen a lot of porn scenes live. But I’ve only seen one scene in a movie, and it was when I was thirteen years old, and it was Juicy Lucy. And I don’t know, I do hardcore porn, but I’ve never watched hardcore porn.

W! Wow. That’s so funny.

JP I see it live, so…

W! I have found in my experience that it’s different when you’re actually seeing people performing those acts in person. There’s no fantasy aspect to it, which is what really draws some people to porn in the first place.

JP That’s true. You have your director and you have your lighting guy and the audience doesn’t hear the director saying, “Will you fuck her this way?” or “Will you fuck her that way?” or “Hey, John, can you hold the light closer to her pussy?” You know, you don’t hear that. They just started shooting behind the scenes stuff, and sometimes you do see part of the scene in it, so the viewers can see how it does go down. But I don’t know how many people actually watch that. They watch it for the girl’s personality, but why ruin porn if you don’t have to? (laughing)

W! The fantasy of porn makes me think of a rant I saw you’d written on your blog a while ago. You went on this rant about how you can’t stand it when people meet you and instead of wanting to date you, or get to know you and your personality, they just want to fuck.

JP Oh my god, yes! I wrote that! You did your research.

W! Well I thought it was interesting because not that I film porn or anything, but just being involved in the industry I’ve had a lot of guys say to me, “Oh my god, do you think I could meet one of the chicks and bang her?” To me it seems like a strange response, like, would you go up to Brad Pitt and say, “Hey, will you act for me?”

JP You know, some of the people on my blog brought up a good point. I actually remember this happening. Someone wrote: “I’m a masseuse and the last thing I want to do when I go home is massage someone.” You know?
But then I hear people also saying, “Well you have sex at work, are you saying you don’t want to have sex in your personal life?” And, no, it’s not that I don’t want to have sex in my personal life. I love my personal-life sex.
But I want to have sex with someone in my personal life who I like and who I’m attracted to and comfortable with. Just because I do porn, does not make me a whore in real life. There’s work and then there’s real life, and in real life I’m a nice girl. And I don’t sleep around or sleep with a different guy every day. In porn, yes I do do that, but I’m getting paid a lot of money for it.
So, you know, come on. In my personal life I will only sleep with a person if I am sexually attracted to them, and we are actually in a relationship. I mean, the guy I’m seeing, I met him through the industry and I didn’t sleep with him for a month. In the meantime I was doing scenes. But I really liked him and I wanted to be in a relationship with him, and I wanted him to get to know me before he got to know my pussy.

W! I think that’s awesome. You’ve said in a lot of your interviews things like, “Maybe someday I’ll end up living the suburban dream. When I get married maybe I’ll stop doing porn.” So obviously you have career goals outside of the industry and you have a lot of personal goals for when you’re done with the industry. Do you want to have a family?

JP Absolutely! One day, when I’m finished with school and I have my career and I’m emotionally, financially, and everything stable — I need to be completely stable and I need to be in a relationship. I want to be married before even thinking about having kids. So once I have all that, then I would be more than happy to welcome some babies into this world because I love kids so much. I definitely do want that but it’s probably going to be a good six, seven, eight years.

W! Well you’ve got all the time in the world.

JP Well, luckily, you’ve got all that whatever-it-is crap they have nowadays.

W! You mean fertility clinics?

JP Yes! You’ve got it, I just can’t say it.

W! Some words jut get away from you sometimes. […] Ok, so, I read this article this morning that researchers in the UK just published an article saying that they discovered that two thirds of female fruit bats give oral sex to males before they have intercourse. And, not only do they give the male bats head, but if they do, they end up having sex for longer than the females that don’t.

JP (laughing) That’s weird. The idea of those animals having sex lives!

W! They said that for every one second of head she gives, the female will get six seconds more sex than one who doesn’t give head.

JP Holy shit! laughing That’s so funny.

W! I was trying to come up with a question that I could ask you that would have something to do with it, but to be honest I don’t have anything. I just thought it was really funny.

JP Well I gave head way before I ever had sex, so I wonder if I got six seconds more for that first time I gave head.

W! What was even funnier was the article said that the researchers could “only speculate” as to why the female bats would want to have longer sex.

JP Oh my god, where did you read this?

W! I mean, what do you mean you don’t know why the females want to have sex for longer?

JP Exactly! They enjoy it! I can’t believe that! Well but that was in the UK. I’ve heard that they can be a little bit sexually prudish. Maybe that’s why don’t understand it.

W! Yeah, they just recently started allowing female ejaculation scenes in x-rated movies over there because they were convinced until a month ago that it was urination.

JP Well you know I’ve filmed a couple Japanese films, and [the men] are not allowed to cum in or on you. I was confused about what was going on, but they said that they are not allowed to use real cum. […] So when they were ready to pop, they went and mixed up some kind of creamy mix and they… I mean… it looked like it was coming out of the dick, but someone just poured it on me. It was weird. They couldn’t show their own cum but they could pretend it was their cum.

W! How did they make it look like it was coming out of the dick?

JP Well they show the dick and they just kind of move the camera so it just looks like it’s dripping on me. But they don’t actually show the dick.

W! So do you think there’s one person on the set whose job it is to make it look like they’re really cumming? To study spurt patterns?

JP Yeah, there’s the cameraman, and there’s like the male performer, and he strokes the cock, and then the camera guy moves the camera over to my inner thigh and there’s little drops of liquid on me.

W! laughing That is the weirdest thing.

JP I’ve shot for a few different Japanese companies and it’s always the same.

W! I’m just wondering, if you’re at a bar and someone says “So what do you do for a living?” Do you say, “Well, I’m the fake cum dripper”?

JP laughing That would be hilarious! “I drip fake cum on girls for work.” Oh my goodness.

W! I guess in Japan things are different, so maybe it wouldn’t be so weird.

JP Yeah, just different rules.

– Interview by our favorite female degenerate, Miss Lagsalot

Check back next week for part two of Jenna’s interview!