Jenna Starr is one of the most sought after and popular performers in her industry. But two years ago her life was very different. Follow her journey from business owner to OnlyFans Content Creator to viral video star to mainstream movies. Then, we countdown the Top 5 Most Annoying Things.
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Jenna Starr Interview
Nick VinZant 0:11
Welcome to Profoundly Pointless. My name is Nick VinZant Coming up in this episode and only fans journey, and the most annoying animals,
Jenna Starr 0:21
you know, when I decided to put my vagina out online, I was like, this is all or nothing, this is go bigger go home. That whole year was like, Should I do this? Should I not? Should I do the show? Not? People are gonna call me this people are gonna call me that what if my family does this? Or what have that would I mean, everything went through my head, and I hadn't processed it for the whole year. I think that a lot of people didn't realize the work, it was going to take the consistency. More than anything else.
Nick VinZant 0:52
I want to thank you so much for joining us. If you get a chance, subscribe, leave us a rating or review. It's been really cool to hear from so many of you have so many of you over the last couple of weeks. i We love getting the feedback. And I really think it helps helps us improve the show. So anytime you've got something to say, we would love to hear it. So our first guest has had a very interesting story. Over the last couple of years, she has gone from a business owner, to only fans, to adult movies, to acting. And all of that has happened just in the last couple of years. So it's really interesting to hear what it's like for somebody who went in to the adult entertainment industry, and how quickly things can change on so many levels. This is actress Jenna star. Is this a career that you ever thought that you would be in?
Jenna Starr 2:05
Absolutely not?
Nick VinZant 2:08
How did you kind of find yourself in it then?
Jenna Starr 2:11
Um, I think one thing led to another. I felt like it was like a calling who was something that I was supposed to do. Just really weird things would just happen to me and it was almost like people kind of aligned me to it would be on the beach. Some random group of guys think I was some porn star. Like maybe over 10 years ago, my ex his best friend just call me Jenna star. And you Hey, Jenna star Hi, you look like a porn star. And I was like, okay, whatever, you know, I just felt like, it just I was like, I'm supposed to be doing this,
Nick VinZant 2:51
you kind of started with an only fans, and then you shifted into more mainstream,
Jenna Starr 2:55
I was already doing the only fans as much as I could and knew of like full force. And I got a bit an inquiry from Brazzers. And they just said, Hey, you know, we'd like to know, it was on my Twitter, they were like, hey, we'd like to know if you would like to shoot for. And if it works out or whatever, we can talk about more scenes from there. And I was like, you know, when I decided to put my vagina out online, I was like, this is all or nothing, this is go bigger go home. If people are going to talk about me just know that I made it somewhere far as far as I could and made my dreams come true. And gave my family what they needed. So I was like, yes.
Nick VinZant 3:43
Now when you were doing the only fans was that the whole thing? And by the whole thing. I mean, like were you showing everything? Or did you kind of like Alright, I'm gonna start out with this and then go to this and or how did that work?
Jenna Starr 3:55
You know, I was doing the you know, the show on my vagina and making customs. Just people would ask me for things and I would just make a like, Okay, I think I could do price and just kind of, you know, trailblaze in that saying,
Nick VinZant 4:11
so you were one of the people that really like started kind of the only got started in only fans and then went into mainstream.
Jenna Starr 4:19
Yeah, I actually started had opened today, even a year prior to the when I when I started putting stuff out and that whole year was like, Should I do this? Should I not? Should I do the show? Not? People are going to call me those people are going to call me that. What if my family does this? Or what if that would I mean everything went through my head and I hadn't processed it for the whole year. And then finally one day I woke up and I was like, These people aren't paying my bills. These people don't really care about me, like people are gonna talk about you, no matter what you do. People talked about me when I ran a wholesome, nice business, you know, and I ran that business for five years until COVID came in and you know, and so it's like I'm going in, and I'm going all the way out.
Nick VinZant 5:03
What has been, like the difference between kind of being out there on only fans versus being out there, in more mainstream applications,
Jenna Starr 5:13
most of the differences, the experience between the two that you go through as a job, they are different. Um, it was better than I thought it was going to be. I wasn't honestly, I wasn't really sure what to expect. And I had like months to like, I'm one of those people where it's like, think about somebody and like, Oh, my goodness, it's like, built up and I was so nervous at lunch, because he contacted me in October, we didn't schedule my scenes until February. So I was really nervous. I was scared, I didn't know what it was gonna be like, I didn't know what the guy was going to be like, I had three scenes, like consecutively. I didn't know how people were gonna treat me I was just kind of more like, you know, what, if people are rude or mean to me, or, or pushy, or, you know, I had all these like fears, you know, then I also had like, the positives of the unknown. You know, we're just gonna go figure it out. I didn't really tell a lot of people at all that I was doing it because I wanted to go in, in a very positive energy, you know, and bring that forward. And my, you know, like, willpower forward, like, Okay, this is something that I want to do.
Nick VinZant 6:30
Like, was that the first time that you had ever had sex on camera? Or had you filmed that before? Either on the only fans or in your personal life? It was like, was it a completely new experience?
Jenna Starr 6:41
Yeah, I think the things that were made personally, but not many, because I wasn't really I was very shy of showing my vagina. I thought it looked ugly and weird. And so I felt really like self conscious about the way I look. But there are some videos out there that were not my consent that people maybe I was hooking up with. I didn't even know that they were recording me until what are you doing? You know,
Nick VinZant 7:09
like that transition going from kind of only fans into the more mainstream stuff? How has that kind of changed your life?
Jenna Starr 7:18
Which part of my
Nick VinZant 7:23
I guess just having what to me, I would assume would be more exposure. Right? I would think that it's more money, more notoriety, more everything.
Jenna Starr 7:33
Definitely. For the better. Absolutely. I feel like this year is going to be really huge for the starting of things, because I'm still pretty new. So I feel like a lot is going to happen this year, maybe double triple the success that I had last year.
Nick VinZant 8:01
And where she like the most viewed
Jenna Starr 8:04
last year for 2021. I featured in goose like the celebrities Brunchy lookalikes. It's a tongue twister, with Kaylee gunner and Kyle Mason, great performers and we got our video. It was the most viral scene of the whole year on Brazzers website.
Nick VinZant 8:30
Now what what looking back at it like why do you think that was? I haven't seen it. I can imagine. I can imagine what was happening. But like,
Jenna Starr 8:41
first three scenes that I did with them. We did them the first one was Bridgette be like something about hot wives or I can't remember the name of it. The second one was boy girl with Brazzers cordovan. And third one was that one with Kyle Mason and Kaylee gunner and these were all this was like the same week. So it's like my it's basically like one of my first videos, you know, I had no idea that that was going to happen. So I couldn't tell you. I don't know. I feel like we all just really tried and just had fun with it. And who knows, you know, just blew up?
Nick VinZant 9:26
Do you get paid more based on how much how many times it's viewed?
Jenna Starr 9:30
Yeah. So it's how many people viewed the scene.
Nick VinZant 9:36
You get paid? Do you get paid the same whether like 100 people see it or a million people see it like as your pay structure. So
Jenna Starr 9:45
we get paid to do scene. And what comes along with that? Are the fans, the followers, the subscribers, the views on our own stuff. So a lot comes with it's like marketing.
Nick VinZant 10:03
After you went into the mainstream role, when was the first time that that you felt like oh, wow, this this is different.
Jenna Starr 10:11
So people were already recognizing me before all that because of my own work of building my own fan base and my Instagram account and my my only fans I'm and so people from the cities I would post in after so many posts and people just start to know who you are. So I already like had that, like people were knowing who I was. Now doing the proceeds just kind of gave it like a like, it's like giving it like a big huge kick. And I think right now I'm starting to realize that I probably need security. I've always had a lot of strange things happen to me, like with men following me around, you know, bugging me like trying to do a lot of weird things and stuff. But you know, I just this last week, I had a god, I was staying in a motel, and I'm gonna see where. And I get up in the morning to go make coffee. And I opened my door and there is a note under the door, and I pick up the note and it's like I saw you checking in. I just want to let you know, and it sounded like a manager, which was funny, because I was like, okay, this person has to work here, because how would they know what room I was in? And why does it sound like, if there's anything you need, let me know. And I'm just, I was just starstruck when I saw you, I really wanted a picture. But I left my phone in like the Uber, I just like all this. And then they were like, I'm in room blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, okay, so I go down to go get my coffee. And the whole time. I'm like, Who in the world? Is this person? And then the guy comes up to me, and was like, um, I hope I you know, didn't bother you buy my note. And I was like, who you left the note? And he was like, Yeah, you know, and I was like, Yeah, that was really weird. And I, you know, and I asked him, I said, you know, because he am like, you know, if I was an athlete, or you know, a music artists, would you have just approached me and said, Hi. And he said, Yeah, and I said, Well, why don't you treat me the way that you would treat other people. And I always tell people, like, you know, when I get on my live with, you see me just say hi, because I can see all the weird shiftiness going on
Nick VinZant 12:41
when you went into the mainstream industry. Did you have to, like did you talk to other people that were in the industry do you like,
Jenna Starr 12:49
so I didn't tell anyone. I told my brother, my sister and one of my best friends. I didn't really want a lot of negative like I said before, I didn't want a lot of negative energy and and stuff. Now, I did reach out to a couple of girls, let's say hula. But I reached out to some, you know, girls, and I wanted some advice and had some questions, and I never got responses. So I walked into everything, just very green. And I don't say that it is in a sense, like, oh my god, I found out all these crazy things. It's just like, I'm learning as I go. I do have, you know, some people now that I can talk to and get advice about like, personal things in the industry, which is great. I'm super thankful for as we all know, a lot of us don't have a lot of people to talk. Yeah,
Nick VinZant 13:36
when you're just like, I would imagine there's not a lot of people that are in that situation, right? Like, who are you getting advice from in that circumstance?
Jenna Starr 13:42
Your family can only listen to you like you're like, very supportive, but like, all they can do is just be like, huh, wow, yeah.
Nick VinZant 13:54
The people in your life when you told them, Were they supportive of it that they discouraged? Did they not know what to say?
Jenna Starr 14:00
So I've never really had my dad in my life. And I already know pretty much what he would say. I mean, I just know how he is. And then my mom, my mom's one of those people where you can just drop a load on her and you gotta like, work it on her.
Nick VinZant 14:20
Yeah, you gotta like prep the groundwork. Yeah, so I did
Jenna Starr 14:23
groundwork on my mom. You know, it was a lot of things that I do. Where I prepared her you know, slowly but surely I didn't over you know, do a sensory overload on her. I just were like, Oh, my goodness, mom. I'm so excited. I'm like, Ah, like, I just this huge company. I'm gonna get to do you know, like, they're just so huge and you know, and I used to do these, you know, like, I'm gonna be an actor. Just like chi Great, great. And it took so many times and then I slowly but surely every time I talked to her about it was like little bit more information a little bit more of information. You know, and then I add some jokes in and I joke around and stuff. So I kind of know how to, like, introduce things in my mom to where, you know whether she agrees with it or not, you know, I just kind of go in and you know, give her the information and it kind of calms her down and then like, Alright, okay, you're doing all right.
Nick VinZant 15:23
How would you say like, society? I know, this is a broad question, but like, how would you say that society has generally responded to it? Like, do you feel? Do you? Are people judgmental? Do they not care? Like, what do you I would
Jenna Starr 15:37
say, there are a lot like a lot of judgmental people. But there's also a lot of just I think people were really curious. Like, a lot of curiosity about the lifestyle. And I think this like, I would say what I thought a lot of people had it figured out and then now I know they don't which I also don't either, if that makes sense.
Nick VinZant 16:00
It does. Like what what was things? Would you say? Like, oh, I don't really have that part of it figured out.
Jenna Starr 16:05
You know, I would just say the personal aspect of it. You're just kind of like, I don't know how they coincide. You know, I haven't figured it out. I'm new. I'm very observant. And so I'm observing a lot of things right now. And just how things go and what works for other people. And you know, just really keeping my mind open.
Nick VinZant 16:26
Are you ready for some harder slash listener submitted questions? Sure. What other names Did you consider? Besides Jenna star? Um,
Jenna Starr 16:37
I didn't really consider much of any other worms. That one just kept sticking in my head. I had to stick with it. I know, some people were like, I shouldn't have done that. But my mother named me Jenna, that was my birth rate name. And she named me after celebrities. So I feel like it was meant to be
Nick VinZant 17:01
how does it get determined who you're going to work with? Like, do you make requests? Did they make requests
Jenna Starr 17:07
Brazzers have signs the situation? Um, I've sent some requests, and I'm sure they just probably like, Okay, this is what you would like to do. I heard that they'll do that. But I think it's really just like, match. Like, they try to match you up with an idea. Unless the unless you do in like a villain scene, like you get a call and someone canceled their scene, and they need to do the scene. It just wasn't planned.
Nick VinZant 17:37
What are the men generally like? And I think what they mean by that is like, are the men usually like, all right? I get to have sex, or they kind of like, this is a job. And this is what I do for my job.
Jenna Starr 17:51
I would say it's probably a little bold, like, they're excited. And it's their job. Yeah.
Nick VinZant 17:59
But it's not like, overly like, oh, my gosh, I'm having sex with this beautiful woman kind of stuff. It's more like that. It's Tuesday, and this is what I'm doing on Tuesday.
Jenna Starr 18:11
I mean, they do express it.
Nick VinZant 18:15
I guess that is true. There's an easy way to tell isn't there? There's kind of a dead giveaway on if the men are excited or not. Um,
Jenna Starr 18:24
yeah, I'm nervous.
Nick VinZant 18:27
Some are nervous. This is a little bit of a deeper question. I guess. You made the transition from only fans into mainstream. During the pandemic, there was a lot of people who started only fans. Do you think that most of those people knew what they were doing? Or knew what they were getting into in the sense that like, once you go down this road, there's kind of no coming back from it.
Jenna Starr 18:53
I think that a lot of people didn't realize the work. It was going to take the consistency more than anything else. There are probably a few people who open that can of worms and realize that they weren't I know one girl had told me that she tried to start it but then her kids father brought it up in court and then you know, and whatever, and then it makes them feel bad. And then so they they quit scenarios like that. I'm sure that probably happened to people. I haven't really heard a lot of that I've just heard more than a million people. Just not understanding what it takes to be successful at it and just quitting and getting tired of it and wore out.
Nick VinZant 19:40
How often will you generally like for only fans or things like that? Like How often will you usually post
Jenna Starr 19:47
daily all day? Oh, it's
Nick VinZant 19:49
all day. Like just do you have to post content or is it just responding?
Jenna Starr 19:57
Like everything making content posting the content responding to your fans. Now, not only do you do that, but you hit your marketing on Twitter, I do most of this stuff myself, like your marketing, Twitter, Instagram, to Instagrams, Twitter, tick tock, you have to have content for all these platforms. And it is a lot of work and it's so much more work than people realize, and definitely work more than the nine to five.
Nick VinZant 20:33
Do you in that regard? Like in the amount of work that you have to do? Do you have to do that to be a certain level of success? Or do you have to do that? To make any money period? It's all you got to be like all access all the time.
Jenna Starr 20:51
You've got to build yourself up marketing, it's about being relevant consistency and connecting with people.
Nick VinZant 20:59
What is your most interesting request?
Jenna Starr 21:03
Recently, somebody asked to eat my shit.
Nick VinZant 21:07
I don't know how to react to that. Maybe. Did you respond?
Jenna Starr 21:12
I said, No.
Nick VinZant 21:13
First of all, it doesn't seem healthy more than anything else. That's the first thing that I think of is like, that's not good for your digestive tract.
Jenna Starr 21:20
No, there's bacteria in there.
Nick VinZant 21:23
I don't think I would really want anyone number one eating my shit, but even just owning my shit. Like, even if they weren't going to eat us, like no, I'm not. I don't know. What should I do with it?
Jenna Starr 21:36
Yeah, I don't know girl in another meal.
Nick VinZant 21:41
Um, oh, you don't have to give their name. But on a scale of one to 10 like one being somebody you've never heard of. 10 we're talking like Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington level famous. What is the most what like what rank would you give the most famous person who tried to slide into your DMS
Jenna Starr 22:04
you know what recently I just got a really big one. I might even go lie Loki. Oh, well excited. I usually don't really get excited because I feel like you're just slightly like everyone else. And not really a cloud chaser So, but, um, I got a flat hall with somebody right? Really, really, really cool. slid into my DMs, like, a week or so ago. You're busy, they're busy. I also don't get overly excited or chase them, chase them down. Or always agree to like, I'll fly you out kind of thing because it's just kind of like, wow, I got to work. I have a life and you know, yeah, let me just go hop on the plane for some, you know, dig, like, Okay, I gotta I gotta get myself ahead in life too.
Nick VinZant 22:54
Are we talking acting? sports, music, politician. Music, can you give us the genre of music?
Jenna Starr 23:05
I want to say rap that this person is more is like flexible with their music. And they have some other stuff out there. Like, like, you're gonna you will hear their music at like, all parties. You know what I'm saying?
Nick VinZant 23:19
This person Oh, yeah,
Jenna Starr 23:21
person has held longevity and been relative for years.
Nick VinZant 23:26
That's pretty much all the questions that we got, most of them are kind of along those lines. Like, I guess where do you? You know, where do you think the future? What do you think the future goes for you? Is this is this the the immediate plan, the short term plan the long term plan.
Jenna Starr 23:43
So this is immediate and medium. Like short term. Like I said, I'm doing this, there's a reason I'm doing this, I'm following an intuition. This is going to get me to the next longer stage in my life, which is like investing. I want to be an investor. So that's what I'm working towards. So I will transition out of this with with the success that comes with it. And the finances, I will use that to be an investor. And then, you know, take care of my old lady. So
Nick VinZant 24:31
it's a good point. There's like the most actresses who are in the industry, like do they have a kind of a shelf life like, Oh, I got I got five years I got 10 years. Do they know that kind of going in?
Jenna Starr 24:46
I mean, if they thought they knew you never know what it really couldn't be when it happens. I would say it probably has to do like you start finding out with your body what your body can actually handle because it's, I would, I'd say, we're athletes, we're sexual athletes, it's a lot of work to do the professional films. And I would say it's all going to be based on your body. And you know, maybe you have your own personal goal and you don't want to do it past a certain point or whatever, and you want to get out or maybe people get tired of it, or they realize it's not really for them, or they stay and they just keep going and they got that milk to give to, you know,
Nick VinZant 25:35
at some point, we got to draw the line, like if we're getting into 100 year old like
Jenna Starr 25:41
she was a very mature woman very, very mature.
Nick VinZant 25:45
Okay. You can answer this question you cannot, right? So like when it comes to the money making part of it? Are we talking like five figures? Six, seven, like how well compensated are actresses like yourself?
Jenna Starr 26:02
So I have zero like several avenues of income. And together? You know, it's a, it's, you know, I do okay.