Kirsten Price (actress)

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Kirsten Price
Kirsten Price 2013.jpg
Price at the AVN Expo in 2013
Born (1981-11-13) November 13, 1981 (age 42) [1]
Other namesJ.J. Holly, Kristen Price, Jadra Holly, Kristen [1]
Height5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) [3]
Spouses
  • Barrett Blade
    (m. 2004;div. 2006)
  • (m. 2013)
[2] [4]
Children3
Website kirstenpricevip.com

Kirsten Price (born November 13, 1981 [1] ) is an American pornographic actress, [5] model, and feature dancer. [2]

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Early life

Price, whose real name is Katherine and goes by Kate, [6] was born in Providence, Rhode Island [2] and is of French and Italian descent. [1] She was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. [2] She studied criminal justice while attending Fisher College in Massachusetts, and she has also lived in New York City, where she worked as a go-go dancer and cocktail waitress. [3]

Career

Price at the Exxxotica Expo, July 2010 Kirsten Price 2010.jpg
Price at the Exxxotica Expo, July 2010

Price chose the first name Kirsten for her stage name because it was the true name of her best friend, who was also an adult entertainer. [3] She has stated that, as a child, she wanted to be a model on The Price Is Right , which is how she came up with the last name Price. [3] She began her adult career doing nude modeling and stripping. [7] Her first two scenes were in Dressed for Sex for Original Sin Films and Wet Teens 7 for Simon Wolf Productions. [1] [3] She eventually signed a contract with Wicked Pictures in 2005. [2] [5] She also competed in Miss Hawaiian Tropic pageants before entering the adult film industry in 2004. [1] [8]

In 2006, Price appeared as one of four finalists (and the eventual winner) on the first season of the reality TV program My Bare Lady . [2] [8] In March 2006, Jesse Jane and Price became the hosts of Playboy TV's most popular live show, Night Calls , and Price has previously hosted the Playboy TV series The Bang. Price also played a small role in an episode of the television series Weeds . [2] [9]

She had her breasts augmented in late 2009. [1]

Price co-hosted the 2010 AVN Awards show, along with porn actress Kayden Kross and comedian Dave Attell. [10] In 2010 and 2011, Price appeared several times, including as an extreme sports correspondent, on the G4TV late-night program "Rated A For Adult". [11] [12] [13] She has worked for both Playboy and Showtime as a red-carpet reporter, and she has co-hosted (with Dave Navarro) the AVN Awards red carpet event for several years. [2]

Personal life

Price married fellow porn actor Barrett Blade on October 9, 2004, but they have since divorced. [2] She took a break from adult films for a while after she got divorced from Blade. [2] She then married pornographic actor Keiran Lee, and the couple have three children. [4]

Awards

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