Leah Luv is quite the paradox when you look at her life and career. Her on-camera persona is of a young-looking innocent blonde in whose mouth you would believe a buttery spread wouldn't melt. Off-camera though is where things are altogether different. If you thought that all porn performers were monosyllabic dumbasses whose brains were located firmly in their genitalia, then you've never had the fortune to read an interview with her. She's a straight-shooter, alright, and there are lots of people in the industry who don't like it.

Not that she cares one bit, and neither should she because Leah Luv has had bigger issues to deal with in a cosmopolitan and challenging life than having to worry about what a few people think of her attitude. Indeed, having successfully fought off cervical cancer when she was just 17 and already having a child to care for (not to mention a single father who she also wanted to support as he had done for her for so long), that she made it to a successful career in any industry shows why she feels she has the deserved right to speak her mind.

Her school life was a highly successful one and she received an extraordinary collection of scholarship offers when her school career ended, all of which she had to turn down in favour of looking after her son. Although disappointed by having to turn the offers down, Leah Luv had bigger priorities and set about looking after son by becoming an exotic dancer. Not long after she turned 19 she accepted an offer to work some shoots for Ed Powers, but largely she saw the first few months of her career as a disappointment mainly because she felt her performances were not committed enough.

Realising that she needed to boost her performance levels if she was to make enough money to really live comfortably and ultimately realise her dream of attending university, she started to take on more hardcore assignments. She inevitably found herself starring in many 18+ teen-themed assignments due to her youthful looks but unlike many performers in the genre, the braces she wore on her teeth weren't just for show but were a medical necessity.

Leah Luv publicly expressed that she was not happy with being labelled as a teen performer though, feeling that those braces were weighing her down and preventing her from being able to take on more mature roles. She ostensibly turned herself into an anal specialist, rejecting opportunities to do vaginal-anal double penetration roles out of personal choice, but becoming a renowned butt-sex specialist. However, she did briefly experiment with double penetration in a rarely seen manner - taking two cocks in her ass at the same time in Sweet My Ass in 2006.

In search of greater variety in her career, she manoeuvred herself successfully but briefly into the squirting genre particularly in 2007, at which point her career as an on-screen performer was slowing down considerably. Meanwhile, she drew some criticism from some areas of the industry for refusing to commit herself to a career in porn, instead seeing it as a way to support her family before going to college and nothing more. She was determined to gain as much experience from the industry as she could, fully meaning to enjoy it as much as she could in the meantime.

In 2006 she took a step behind the cameras, and a spectacular turn it would be as well as she directed herself in the aforementioned Sweet My Ass. She struck up a good relationship with Anarchy, who allowed her to pick and choose her projects as she launched herself into college studying criminal law and interior design at UCLA. She is now practically retired, but not quite - she still pops up very occasionally in movies, although movies released in 2008 starring her are suggested to be older titles that had received delayed releases.

Some see several interviews she has given about the industry as being bitter parting shots as a result of a lack of awards she has received for performances that fans have regarded as high quality, but in reality they are anything but. A scathing attack on long-time friend and lover Hillary Scott after their friendship fell apart in late 2006 after a late-night argument in a controversial interview with AdultFYI in 2007 gave some people a different opinion on Leah Luv.

But that's Leah Luv, for you. She may be sweet in name and sweet in looks, but she speaks her mind and doesn't take any prisoners in being brutally honest. Her attitude might not be to everyone's liking, but in an industry filled with bullshit opinions hers are refreshingly forthright, intelligent and verbose. She'll go far.

PROFILE:-

Name - Leah Luv
Porn aliases - Leah Love
Place of birth - Long Beach, California, USA
Nationality / Ethnicity - Caucasian-American
Date of birth - July 24th, 1984
Official website - www.sweetleahluv.com
Debut year - 2003
Niches / genres - Anal / Squirting
Mainstream exposure - None
Must-see sites - 10 Man Cum Slam, Hustler, Club Red Light, Shane's World, Wicked Pictures
Must-see titles - Anal Princess Diaries 1 & 2 (2005 / 2006), Bustful Of Dollars (2005), Not The Bradys XXX (2006), Slut Puppies 1 (2005), Teen Fuck Holes 1 (2004)
Notable awards - None to date