During August, when she was selected to model for Penthouse magazine's September 1984 15th-anniversary issue, Kuzma was asked to choose a stage name. After signing a contract, she began working as a nude model and appeared in magazines such as Velvet, Juggs, and Club. Posing as her stepfather, Hayes drove her to the agency. In February 1984, she answered a newspaper advertisement for Jim South's World Modeling Talent Agency. Kuzma now had the alias Kristie Elizabeth Nussman and a new driver's license that stated she was 20 rather than 15 years old. She provided Kuzma with a new birth certificate on condition that if she were ever caught she would say that she had stolen the phony identification. The woman offered to improve Kuzma's job opportunities by helping her get a fake driver's license. Looking for a job to get some money, she was introduced to Hayes' friend and started working for her as a babysitter. He arranged for her to have an abortion without her mother's knowledge. Afraid of her mother's reaction, she went to Hayes for help. 1984–1986: Pornography career Īt age 15, Kuzma became pregnant by her high school boyfriend. Her mother and two younger sisters eventually found a new apartment. Kuzma refused to follow them to a new place and was left with her older sister Lorraine. After her mother broke up with Hayes due to his drug use, she began dating his friend. She was angry at her mother and found a father figure in her mother's boyfriend Roger Hayes, as she calls him in her autobiography he was a drug abuser and molested Kuzma in her sleep. During her early school years, Kuzma developed a rebellious attitude. In September 1982, she began attending Redondo Union High School but dropped out at age 15 to enter the porn industry. She did not see her father for many years after. When Kuzma was 12, she moved with her mother, her mother's new boyfriend, and sisters to Redondo Beach, California. If I came home from a date at 11:30 and my mother questioned me, I'd say, 'I was out fucking somebody!' I wasn't. When I hit L.A., I said 'There's gonna be some changes here.' I hated the world. You know, kids at sixteen, a husband who drinks and beats you. In 2003, Lords published her autobiography, Traci Lords: Underneath It All, which received positive reviews from critics and debuted at number 31 on The New York Times Best Seller list. It peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart and was included on the soundtrack to the film Mortal Kombat (1995), which was eventually certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Despite the poor sales of the album, the lead single " Control" had moderate commercial success. After her song "Love Never Dies" was featured on the soundtrack to the film Pet Sematary Two (1992), she was signed to Radioactive Records and subsequently released her debut studio album, 1000 Fires (1995) to generally positive reviews. Lords also pursued music in addition to her film career. She also appeared in films such as Skinner (1993), Virtuosity (1995), Blade (1998), Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) and Excision (2012), which earned her a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as a Fright Meter Award and a CinEuphoria Award. with Children, Tales from the Crypt, Roseanne, Melrose Place, Profiler, First Wave, Highlander: The Series, Gilmore Girls and Will & Grace. Her other acting credits included the television series MacGyver, Married. Lords followed with the role of Wanda Woodward in John Waters' teen comedy, Cry-Baby (1990). She made her mainstream screen debut at age nineteen in a leading role in the 1988 remake of the 1957 Roger Corman science fiction film Not of This Earth. In addition, all but the last of her adult films were banned as child pornography.Īfter leaving the pornography industry two days after turning the legal age of eighteen, Lords enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, where she studied method acting with the intention of becoming a mainstream actress. When the FBI acted on an anonymous tip that Lords was a minor during her time in the industry, and that pornographers were distributing and selling these illegal images and videotapes, the resulting fallout led to prosecution of those responsible for creating and distributing the tapes. Lords starred in adult films and was one of the most sought-after actresses in that industry during her career. She entered the adult film industry using a fake birth certificate to conceal that she was two years under the legal age of eighteen. Traci Lords (born Nora Louise Kuzma May 7, 1968) is an American actress and singer.
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