Kiki D’aire back in porn

Five years ago Kiki D’aire left the porn business to pursue a relationship with a man in New Orleans. The relationship didn’t work out – spectacularly – and she has returned to porn while she finishes a degree at a southern Jesuit university.

“They’re making me take everything but Christian classes,” she said while hosting Porn Star Karaoke at Sardo’s Bar in Burbank last night.

Several generations of porn performers have come and gone in D’aire’s absence. When she started her adult career in 1999 she was part of the last wave of performers who could conceivably not appear on the Internet. She worked in features as well as the newer series of low-budget gonzo movies. Even her name sounds antique for porn.

D’aire, who was born in Memphis, always had a different look from most of her contemporaries. She was full-figured in the 90’s style, a look that went away as porn performers got smaller and smaller, until many AVN award winners were actually smaller than the statues that commemorated their achievements.

During D’aire’s absence she danced, she went to school, and she didn’t keep up with what was going on in Porn Valley.

“I’d check websites now and then,” she said, “but people came and went so fast.”

D’aire looks now, as she did then, like the dirtiest girl at the bar. In a white t-shirt and jeans she looks like the Other Woman in any movie featuring a honkytonk gin mill.

“But now I’m more mature-looking,” she said, working the room at Sardo’s. “I’m sweating my ass off.”

“Please don’t.”

D’aire says she has not yet shot a comeback movie, but says it will have to involve a lot of girls.

“They won’t know what hit them,” she said.

Still, she is being choosy about how she returns to the camera after being gone for half a decade.

“It has to be worth my while,” she said, with a slight Ashley Judd accent. “It can’t be just anything.”

Previously: Kami, Kiki, and Anastasia: Battle of the Exes
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