“I was under the influence of a much older man who was supposed to be a parental figure that I trusted. I want to be very specific in what I say because there is a difference there,” she says. “There’s a difference between being sex-trafficked and being taken and exploited and abused in what happened to me. She had been introduced to the adult film industry through her mother’s ex-boyfriend, whom she says she relied on. That was the time we were living in … That’s how bad it was. “It was even a time when local news stations would air the salacious headline of ‘Teen Porn Star … blah, blah, blah.’ ‘Small Town Girl.’ They’d use one of the illegal pictures of me with block-outs. And they had all kinds of judgments about it,” she says. And people felt free to ask me whatever they wanted without any kind of regard for what I might think, feel, me as a human being - nothing. “Still a very young lady, and I had a lot to answer for. “When I very first started trying to cross over and do legitimate acting, I was 19 years old,” she recalls. Lords plays the chief of a rival detective agency, a powerful nemesis to the hapless pair. The series is about two struggling private eyes in Los Angeles. Today, at 50, she’s co-starring in the Pop Television Network series Swedish Dicks, adapted by Peter Stormare. It seemed to her she’d never live down the stigma.īut Lords is a fighter. When authorities discovered she was underage, most of her films were confiscated, and she was labelled persona non grata. Lords became a cause celebre in the early ’80s when she starred in several adult films at the age of 15. Today she’s celebrating 17 years of marriage, motherhood and a whole new career. Lords is an inspiration to those who have the will to succeed even in the face of adversity.BEVERLY HILLS, California - Not many people need to reinvent themselves at 19. Today, she is married to Jeff Lee and lives happily with their son, Joseph Gunnar Lee. She has produced some award-winning performances in movies like ‘Chump Change’ and ‘Excision.’ She entered the music world with her studio album ‘1000 Fires,' followed by her EP ‘Sunshine’ and compilation album ‘M2F2.’ She has seen a lot of ups and downs in her life and these details have been captured in her autobiography, ‘Tracy Lords: Underneath It All,’ which made it to the 'New York Times Best Sellers' list. She has acted in a number of television series and movies. However, she waded through rough waters and fought her way. She had a difficult childhood as she was exposed to the harsh realities of life even before her teenage years. Ironically, she decided to turn her attention towards mainstream cinema after reaching the legitimate age. Traci Elizabeth Lords is a well-known American actress and singer, who had a controversial beginning to her career as she had acted in adult movies while she was still underage.

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