Fashion Degree, Different Runway

A friend of mine has been doing camera work on porn sets for years, on and off. For him it’s a job like any other, and every so often he asks whether I’d want to be in something. He’s seen me naked, he says, and he’s confident I’d come across well on camera—not just for the niche crowd, but properly.

I always decline politely and promise to think about it. And I do. Probably more than the average person. Late at night scrolling through Pornhub in that half-awake state, I find myself wondering what kind of scene I’d even fit into. Whether I could keep it together with a camera six inches from my face. Whether I’d be able to look people at the supermarket in the eye afterward.

Jade—some corners of the internet know her as Carly Rae Summers—already has all those answers. She studied fashion in the UK, graduated, and then one afternoon found herself face-down getting fucked by a bald guy and walked away with her first paycheck as a porn actress. Just like that. She talks about what the pivot did to her life in an interview that’s, among other things, a genuinely interesting account of someone who looked at two possible futures and chose the one that makes for a better story.