![]() ![]() Spoiler alert: The five-part series is sad. One of the series’ most poignant moments is a smiling Weeks expressing buried concern over losing her identity to her porn star alter ego. But, as the documentary shows, the amount of “hustle” the job demands, and the public persona it requires performers to develop, can both be hugely taxing - particularly for someone as young as Weeks. According to Weeks, she started by Googling “how to be a porn star” when she first considered sex work as a way to pay for school, never anticipating how her involvement with the industry would come to dominate her life. The series follows Weeks in the months after her identity was first revealed by a classmate at Duke, and shows how she, her family and others in the porn industry have responded to her rise to stardom. I kind of have the mind and the emotional baggage of somebody much, much older than me." "I don't have the mind of an 18-year-old. But in the year since she started doing porn, Weeks admits, she has grown a great deal. "I think my experiences have aged me," she says in the documentary. ![]() Many of Weeks' early claims still pop up: She loves what she does, and she makes no apologies for joining the adult industry to pay her Duke tuition. She has not delved deep into how her treatment by the public - the treatment directed at so many sex workers - has affected her life.īut in a new documentary series from Condé Nast Entertainment, "Becoming Belle Knox," those missing details of Weeks' story are presented in full force. In essays deriding outrageous tuition costs and expressing love for the porn industry, Weeks has offered astute arguments - but they are arguments that never veer too far into the gray areas that exist in the lives of female porn performers, whose bodies and choices are policed to a near-unimaginable extent. Me personally, I’m not the biggest fan of Belle Knox’s work, I’m more of a Layla London guy personally, but if you’re curious…here are some links.Miriam Weeks, also known by her stage name Belle Knox, also known as "the Duke porn star," hasn't been afraid of publicly taking sides since she was outed as a porn performer during her freshman year of college. Now she’s graduated from Duke and is headed to law school in New York. Her story even got made into a Life Time movie when she retired a few years ago. Duke’s yearly tuition is around $60,000 and that’s not easy to come by. If your parents aren’t some oil fortune recipients and you go to Duke, where 99% of the people wear Patagonias and Vineyard Vines 24/7, you’re going to need a source of real cash to survive. Do porn for a few years and if your friends or family are too embarrassed to support you then fuck em (worth noting her parents fully supported the move). Money is money and when you have your sights set on something way more important (becoming a lawyer) then who cares how you get there. We’re not here to judge one bit, and I actually respect the fuck out of the move. People at the school were on their high horse judging her left and right, meanwhile their parents were deciding what color their next yacht was going to come in. It worked! I actually remember when this story first broke and Belle had to go on Twitter to confirm she was in fact the woman at Duke doing porn on the side to pay the bills. When asked for a comment, New York Law School refused citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, adding it would “neither confirm nor deny whether the person about whom you inquired is enrolled or has been enrolled as a student”. She has also been interviewed by Piers Morgan and appeared on a host of other high profile shows where she had defended her job. But the student is not secretive about her sordid past, which was caught the public imagination so much that it was turned into a docudrama called “From Straight A’s to XXX” which was released last year. Knox, whose real name is Miriam Weeks, is believed to be using another alias as she prepares to be a legal eagle. ![]()
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