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Published 10:08 11 Aug 2026 GMT
If you owned a copy of Blink-182's Enema of the State, you know the cover.
A woman in a nurse's outfit, snapping on a blue latex glove, red bra peeking through the white coat, staring at the camera like she was about to ruin your life.
That woman was Janine Lindemulder.
She was already one of the biggest names in adult film when the photo was taken, but the band didn't know that when they picked her.
Enema of the State came out on June 1, 1999.
It sold 15 million copies worldwide and turned Blink-182 from a California punk band into one of the biggest acts on the planet.
The cover was shot by photographer David Goldman.
The album was originally going to be called Turn Your Head and Cough, which is why Goldman came up with the glove idea.
'Obviously an enema is not really a glove type of thing,' he told the Huffington Post. 'I thought it was a good visual.'
Bassist Mark Hoppus told CMJ New Music Monthly they had a clear vision from the start.
"We wanted to have a sexy nurse on the cover," he said.
"We were looking at models and Playboy girls and we were like, 'If we're going to get a sexy girl for the cover, let's get a Vivid girl!'"
They picked Lindemulder's photo out of a pile of potential models.
Nobody in the band knew she was already a well-known porn star - their producer Jerry Finn had to tell them.
Needless to say, it didn't put them off.
She also appeared in the music video for 'What's My Age Again?' playing the nurse who chases the three naked band members through the streets.
Lindemulder was born in 1969 and started working as a stripper after leaving school.
She moved into adult film in 1988 and spent the next decade building a career that made her one of the most recognised names in the industry.
She was named Penthouse Pet in December 1987, won multiple AVN awards and was inducted into both the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2002.
She also appeared alongside Howard Stern in the 1997 film Private Parts.
The Blink-182 cover took her mainstream.
Suddenly, millions of teenagers who had never heard of her were staring at her face in record shops and on bedroom walls around the world.
In 1999, the same year the album dropped, she announced her retirement from adult film.
She said she wanted to become a kindergarten teacher and focus on raising her son.
That didn't last, and she returned to the industry in 2004.
Quite a lot, and not much of it was good.
In 2002, she married Jesse James, the founder of West Coast Choppers and a regular on reality television.
They had a daughter, Sunny. The marriage lasted two years.
After their divorce in 2004, James married Sandra Bullock.
What followed was a custody battle between Lindemulder and James that played out publicly for years, with Bullock caught in the middle of it.
In 2008, Lindemulder served six months in prison for failing to pay her taxes. After her release, the custody fight with James escalated further.
In a 2009 interview with ABC News, she addressed Bullock's involvement directly.
"Sandy doesn't know what goes on in my house," she said.
"I'd love for her to. Please come over, you know, I'll make dinner. Let's sit down, two women."
James and Bullock divorced in 2010 after he was caught cheating. Lindemulder's brief second marriage ended the same year.
In 2011, she was arrested on three outstanding harassment warrants.
Not much like the nurse on the cover.
Lindemulder is now 57. She lives in Oregon.
The blonde hair is gone, replaced by long dark locks. Her arms are covered in sleeve tattoos.
The blue butterfly from the album cover is still there, buried somewhere underneath everything else.
She is still active online.
She has around 89,000 followers on X, where her bio is marked 18+, and she runs an OnlyFans account.
From one of the most famous album covers of the 1990s to OnlyFans in her late 50s.
It is not the career arc most people would have predicted when she snapped that glove on in 1999.
The album is 27 years old. The nurse is still working. The glove, presumably, has been retired.
