Euphoria star Chloe Cherry has opened up about her former career in porn, admitting that it wasn’t as glamorous as she had anticipated.
Chloe stars on HBO series Euphoria, featuring as drug addict Faye during season two of the show that follows students attending booze-fuelled parties and coming to terms with their sexuality.
The 25-year-old had an unconventional route into acting, and has previously spoken candidly about how her work as a porn star quickly helped her feel “comfortable” in front of the TV cameras.
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Now, speaking on the Going Mental podcast, Chloe lifted the lid on how her expectations about working in porn were not matched by reality, and claimed that she had suffered from body dysmorphia as a result of the pressures to meet industry stereotypes.
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“The porn industry is so much more toxic when it comes to body image than the fashion industry,” she suggested.
“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.
“Whereas in porn there was literally one f***ing body you could have, porn was so strict. I don’t know why in fashion we understand that people like a lot of different kinds of bodies whereas in porn it’s still a certain way.”
In fact, Chloe claimed that the industry had struggled to keep up with societal trends, and observed that viewers actually preferred a more rough and ready approach.
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She said: “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.
“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?”
Chloe moved to Miami at 18 to pursue a career in the adult industry, and she admitted that her ideas and aspirations about what her life might be like had quickly been dampened by the grim reality of porn.
“We would live in a model house and there would be just the weirdest girls [there]… They just didn’t give a f***. There was one girl, I remember all she would do is go on her phone and smoke cigarettes, it was all she would do,” she recalled.
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“People would come in with a weird idea of it, they would think it was so much money, like millions of dollars, and it’s not like that.”
Three years after joining the industry, Chloe decided that she had had enough, and took on some small roles in set decoration before having her big break on Euphoria.
And, despite admitting that she had been really dedicated to her porn career at the time, Chloe suggested that it is unlikely she would ever return to an adult set after disassociating from the industry.
“I don’t watch porn at all anymore because I literally don’t see it as anything other than a job,” she confessed.
“All I look at is work when I see porn, just the technicality of the work behind it, so I don’t watch any porn at all, nothing is interesting to me… I don’t find anything arousing about it at all because I know that those people are working.”
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