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Asia Carrera (born '''Jessica Andrea Steinhauser''' on August 6 , 1973 in New York City ) is a former American Pornographic Actress . EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION Asia Carrera was born in New York City to a Japan ese father and German mother1 and is the oldest of four siblings.2 She was raised in Little Silver, New Jersey , attending Little Silver Public Schools and Red Bank Regional High School. She studied piano as a child, and performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. By 16 she taught English at Tsuruga College in Japan."The Women of Porn", '' Playboy '', March 2002, page 128 When she was 17, she ran away from home because she felt her parents put too much pressure on her to succeed academically. She won a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University and is a member of Mensa .3 ADULT FILM CAREER Carrera worked during the early 1990s as a dancer at several go-go bars in her home state of New York. After doing at least one photoshoot for an adult magazine, she put together a demo porn tape in 1993. At the end of that year she relocated to California to break into the Pornography business and she announced her Retirement at the end of 2003 . She is sometimes credited as Asia or '''Jessica Bennett'''. Carrera has also been involved in writing, producing, and directing movies, as well as doing all her own make-up and hair-styling, and doing much of the hair and make-up for other actresses in the same movies. As is common practice among adult film actresses, the name "Asia Carrera" is a Pseudonym . According to interviews, she chose the Stage Name surname from actress Tia Carrere , intentionally misspelling it for legal reasons.4 After her contract with Vivid expired in the mid 1990s, Carrera had her right Labia Minora pierced and has henceforth had a variety of 1/2" gold rings affixed there ever since. At this time she also had her first breast enlargement, going from a medium B to at least a full C cup. She has had at least one subsequent breast surgery and is now a D cup or larger.5 OTHER INTERESTS Describing herself as "the Nerd of porn", Carrera has an active presence on the Internet . She proudly proclaims that she created her own Web Site in the late 1990s , including writing the code and editing the pictures. She is an avid player of '' Unreal Tournament '' and she has designed her own game skins, and was featured in the show ''Players'' on the G4 games cable channel, where she revealed that her screen name is "Megabitchgoddess." Asia hosted her own Unreal Tournament server that featured custom maps designed by fans that frequented her chatroom that she has hosted on her site since 1997. She is also a Corvette aficionado but traded hers in after starting a family. She is an outspoken atheist. "I've always been an atheist, Science explains everything."http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006562/bio, posted August 24, 2007 Asia also lent her voice to a number of hentai movies, such as Inmu and Shusaku. PERSONAL LIFE |
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