Fresh Faces: Michelle Anderson

LOS ANGELES—When Michelle Anderson was brand new to the adult industry, she now admits she came down with an extreme case of nerves on set — the second time. Her first shoot, she says, went fine. She flew into Los Angeles from her home on the East Coast after vereran performers Tony Rubino and Vina Sky spotted her on Twitter, and proposed that she try porn as a career move. That was just a little more than one year ago, she says. Anderson gives her industry “anniversary” as January 13.  “It was actually pretty spontaneous,” she told AVN. “I had conversations with them back and forth for, like, a month before I actually decided to come out and try it. My first time it was so crazy. I was just like, ‘OK, I think I can do this.’ It was crazy because my second time I was super-nervous. And the first time I wasn’t.” In her maiden shoot, “all the adrenaline and excitement of coming to do something like this really got in the way, so I wasn’t nervous at all. The second time I was definitely more nervous. I was like, ‘This is really happening!’ But I’m going to go as far as I can go with it. Go big or go home!” Anderson appears to have found her home in the adult industry, saying that she found that once she got started, she “really took off. Everyone loved me. It’s really crazy.” And since then she has “shot for almost everyone in Florida, multiple times” and now makes regular cross-country jaunts to Los Angeles to film there as well. Anderson says she plans to move to Florida sometime in the summer of this year.  She has yet to sign with an agency, however, saying, “I haven’t really thought about it. I’d have to find the perfect one.” The actual home for Anderson, who has been working steadily in the business in the year since those initial shoots, is a “small country town” where her stepmother is a lawyer and her aunt is a veterinarian, imbuing her with two of her main interests outside her adult performing career. Even as she pursues her porn career as her top priority, she remains in school studying for her associates degrees in medical law and ethics. “I’ve always wanted to do something in medicine, or with animals — something to do with science, in that field,” she said. “We’ll see, if that ever comes up.” But that career move remains in the distant future for Anderson, who in addition to performing, harbors even larger ambitions within the adult field, on the other side of the camera.  “I would like to use porn as maybe, a gateway into photography,” she said. “I just want to make a lot of money, and start a business, invest, and do that. Like when I’m old. Way older. Once I feel like I don’t want to be the talent anymore, I definitely want to be on the other side, shooting porn. That would be so dope.” What would she like fans to know about her, outside of her career goals, and her interest in medicine and veterinary science?  “I’m a dog mom,” she laughs. “I love to dance. I love cooking. I’m always in the kitchen making something different. I’m always finding little recipes.”  But the main focus of her life at the moment is her still-young porn career.  “I absolutely love being in the industry,” she told AVN. “You get to meet a lot of cool people, go a lot of cool places. I think it’s really fun!”  Photography by @KogaFoto on the set of SlutInspection.com