Asia Carrera

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Asia Carrera

Birthdate:	August 6, 1973 (age 33)
Birth location:	New York City, New York
Birth name:	Jessica Andrea Steinhauser
Measurements:	36C-26-36
Height:	5 ft 8.5 in (1.74 m)
Eye color:	Brown
Hair color:	Brunette
Natural bust:	No
Orientation:	heterosexual
Ethnicity:	Japanese and German
Alias(es):	Jessica Bennett
No. of films:	370 (approx.)
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Asia Carrera (born Jessica Andrea Steinhauser on August 6, 1973 in New York City) is a former adult film star.

1 Early life and education
2 Adult film career
3 Other interests
4 Personal life
5 Filmography
6 External links

[edit] Early life and education

Asia has stated that she was born in New Jersey to a German mother and Japanese father. She grew up in Little Silver, New Jersey, attended Little Silver Public Schools, and Stuyvesant High School and Red Bank Regional High School.

She studied piano as a child, and she had performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. When she was 16, she ran away from home because she felt her parents put too much pressure on her to succeed academically.

She won an academic scholarship to Rutgers University and she is a member of Mensa [1].

[edit] Adult film career

Asia worked during the early 90's as a dancer at several go-go bars in her home state of New Jersey.

After doing at least one photoshoot for an adult magazine back East, 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.

After her contract with Vivid expired in the mid '90s, Asia 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.

Asia has performed only a few anal sex scenes, again waiting for her contract with Vivid to expire to do her first scene in the movie "A Is For Asia". While anal sex pays better, Asia stated that, while she found it enjoyable, it wasn't something she did in her personal life a great deal and had no interest in becoming an "anal queen" in the industry.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Personal life

In 1995, Carrera married adult film director Bud Lee. They divorced in 2003 after a long separation. Asia dated Clark, a former grip, for a few years until his visa expired and he returned to England. Soon after, she married nutritionist and author Don Lemmon on December 19, 2003. The couple moved to St. George, Utah where Carrera gave birth to her first daughter, Catalina, on March 4, 2005. While she was almost 8 months pregnant with their second baby, Don was killed in a car accident near Las Vegas on June 10, 2006. Carrera has expressed concerns about her livelihood and has begun to solicit donations on her personal webpage [2][3].

Their son, who was born on July 31st 2006, was initially to be named Devin; but she decided, after Lemmon's death, to name him Donald Edward Lemmon III. [4] She gave birth to her son at home unassisted. She and her husband had planned for the birth to be unassisted, but after his death she was offered free midwifery services, and she was unsure whether she wanted to give birth alone without her husband. The birth occurred 11 days prior to the estimated due date, while a midwife was en route. Currently they are doing well.

Carrera is outspoken about her disapproval of becoming involved with illegal drugs, and the adverse effects she has seen it take on personal lives and careers of her colleagues.