Fresh Faces: Rhaya Shyne

This article originally ran in the January 2017 issue of AVN magazine. Click here to see the digital edition. Hometown: Anchorage, Alaska | Height: 5-foot-2 | Weight: 107 pounds | Measurements: 32-26-30 | Hair: Brown | Eyes: Brown With a name like that, we had to ask: “Is your middle name by any chance ‘Sun’?” “Why, yes,” responded the Alaska native, who commutes to L.A. for work. “How did you know?” Lucky guess—and likewise, we suspected that a petite cutie like Rhaya probably doesn’t winter in her home town of Anchorage very well. Right again: “Honestly, during the winter, I just stay inside. I’m too tiny to go outside in the cold.” When we spoke with her, Rhaya was very new to the business, so we asked her how she wound up in Porn Valley. “I was asked to get into the adult business by Dave Rock from Motley Models, and just thought it would be fun,” she said. “We met on Plenty of Fish; it’s a dating website. I was looking for a date and wound up in porn. I’ve enjoyed it so far; definitely been fun; something way different than what I’m used to doing. I love people.” Though she hadn’t yet met many people in the industry, Rhaya said she’d like to work with another short-timer, Molly Madison, possibly in a girl/girl scene. “I love her accent; I love everything about her. I could do a lot of things with her.” Being a newbie, Rhaya has yet to try anal, and though she’s done a bit of bondage, “I’m not like too freaky about it. I could do it, but wouldn’t want to get too carried away.” One thing Rhaya hopes to do while in the industry is travel. “I haven’t actually been to a lot of places,” she admitted. “I’ve only been to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Vegas and California, and of course Alaska. I haven’t ventured very far around the state, though; not enough time.” Though Anchorage is a fairly modern city, a lot of Rhaya’s activities back there were fairly sedate, included hairdressing, for which she found herself to have a natural talent; cooking—”I’ll eat anything with noodles in it; love pasta—love it!”—and smoking, both tobacco and The Other Stuff, which is legal in her home state. In fact, her dream is “owning a bunch of hotels all over the world. I want to own an amazing hotel, where you can smoke weed in it. ... I’d also like to own my own dispensary. I smoke weed a lot.” Her pet is similarly of the indoor variety: A blue beta fish named Crimson. But lest one get the idea that Rhaya is a complete homebody, she also likes hiking, and she’ll be spending her time improving her tan on the SoCal trails, though she was still fairly pale when we saw her. All in all, Rhaya’s a pretty quiet person—but for those who’d like to see her backfield in motion, check out her scene with Chris Strokes for Tiny4K.com, “Tight Teen Hole.”