Lana Rhoades has shockingly claimed that her father signed papers for her to work at a "restaurant similar to Hooters" when she was a teenager.
The internet personality joined the world of adult entertainment in 2016 and only filmed eight month's worth of content in two, four-month stints before she ultimately retired.
Now aged 27, Rhoades uses her platform to spread awareness about the dark side of the industry.
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In a recent interview on the YouTube channel Curious Mike, Rhoades candidly opened up about her career before she became an adult star.
She claimed that at age 17, her father signed papers to allow her to work at a "restaurant similar to Hooters".
"He signed the paper so that I could work there because it's a restaurant where you have to wear a sexy outfit and I wasn't even 18," she said. "So that was my first kind of job where men sexualize you and look at you in that way.
"And I never thought that I was like pretty or anything growing up, so I was like 'wow they hired me here like I'm pretty enough to work here," she said, adding that after she turned 18, she went on to work as a dancer at a club before moving into p**n.
Watch the podcast below (from 4:40 mark):The internet personality - who has spoken out about her disdain for adult film - is now a mother-of-one and a multimillionaire with several businesses including an OnlyFans account and the Three Girls One Kitchen podcast with Alexa Adams and Olivia Davis.
During the podcast, she explained the heartbreaking reason that led to her ultimately leaving the industry after a couple of months.
The host began by asking her how she was able to "get out" and find her "identity" outside of the business.
Rhoades told the interviewer that she "had to" find her identity otherwise her life would've tragically ended, explaining: “Because towards the end of it, I started having panic attacks before scenes because I really didn’t want to do them and I didn’t know how to say ‘no I don’t want to do this.'"
“So there really was no choice for me; it really was either 'probably going to k*ll myself’ or just do anything to make something else work,” she said.
The ex-adult star added that she believes that if anyone just "works towards anything they want to do just a little bit every single day" then they can get to their goal.
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Lana - who suffers from borderline personality disorder (BPD) - disclosed in another interview that she wishes she could wipe all of her old explicit videos off the internet.
"A lot of the videos I have no rights under, otherwise I probably would have deleted them all by now," she said on Harry Jowsey's 'Tap In' podcast back in 2021.
She opened up about her regrets, sharing: "I honestly tell people, if I could go back, I would give up everything to have my dignity and respect back, and for people not to be able to see me in that way."