I bought this book on a whim many years ago and just never got around to reading it. At the time I was very interested in women's empowerment and sexuality, and since Jenna Jameson did have some crossover success, and was one of the biggest money makers in the porn industry I was interested in reading a little more about how she achieved that success.

Honestly, I think she gives herself a lot more credit than she deserves.... she also repeatedly calls herself a "good girl" when describing her childhood, but then goes on to describe early use of alcohol, drugs, assault, and vandalism. I'm pretty sure her definition and my definition of being a "good girl" are two different things.

After reading this book - it's not surprising that she made many of the choices she did. Her father, a criminal, at one point a cop, and a drug addict. She and her brother were both heavily addicted to meth, and she had absolutely no positive female influence in her life. She apparently was also raped three times before she turned 20. I don't doubt any of her childhood trauma, however, I'm not sure I believe half of what she writes about - I almost feel bad that I can't take a lot of it seriously, or find it believable in any way. I'd be fascinated to find out what a mental health professional thinks. Also, it's pretty amazing that she never served any jail time, or was never arrested for half of the situations she describes.

I don't think I can recommend reading it. It only cost me $1 after all, and maybe 48 hours of my time. It made me feel bad for her more than anything, which is really not what I wanted it to be.

*UPDATE*
So I looked up Jenna on Wikipedia after finishing this review. She's been arrested twice for alcohol and drugs since then, and has now been divorced three times (although she did finally have twins a few years ago). Sad.

I am actually not a huge fan of biographies, yet here I am reviewing my second biography. Granted, I read this a couple years ago, but still. So, I've always been kind of fascinated with Jenna Jameson. She's pretty notorious in the porn industry and has made a huge name for herself through heavy marketing.

The book basically takes you through her life thus far. She talks about how her upbringing led her to be a wild teenager and how that ultimately led to her porn career. She writes about her first girlfriend, her problems with drugs, and her rising career.

It's a very candid tale, bordering on raunchy at times (she spends a whole page giving instructions on how a woman can perfect her oral skills), but then, she's in porn, so what do you expect? I liked the book because I felt she was being honest and it offered an insight into an industry that is rarely discussed.

I absolutely love Jenna Jameson! She is very intelligent and has a great business sense believe it or not. This book was great! It had great tips and the story of her life was amazing. Not too mention the picures in the book are wonderful! I'd recommend this to anyone. Even if you aren't into porn its still a really good book about her life and how she got where she is today.

I didn't have high expectations for this book, considering it was written by a porn star with little education. But I came out realizing that Jenna Jameson has a firm grasp of who she is, where she's been, and how to market herself better than any porn star on the planet. She's witty and introspective; making the traumatic times in her life seem like a mere stepping stone. She's been through so much: the death of her mother, drug addiction, the porn industry, yet she managed to come out of the other side a successful woman who didn't let pain get the best of her. I loved this book! And the pictures throughout aren't bad either!

Before we begin a review of this salacious biography, filled with consistent name-dropping and endless porn gossip, I will add an intense trigger warning on a variety of fronts from the first few chapters onward. Coming to this as the fourth book I've read by Neil Strauss, I knew I would stick with this dark and largely un-sexy memoir until the end, but the graphic descriptions of sexual exploitation make it nearly unreadable at times. This is a tale from an unreliable narrator, guided by an experienced ghostwriter, through a lot of her antiheroic stories of the good, the bad, and the reckless.

Jameson's unconventional upbringing is so wild that it's nearly unbelievable, and a part of me wonders how much of it was real to begin with. Her father, a man who scraped the territory between cop and criminal throughout his life, is an unreliable narrator in the stories he told Jameson throughout her violent and abusive youth. So too is Jameson's brother, who "started sleeping with guns under his pillows when he was about six years old," and who appears alongside her father in familial interviews sprinkled throughout. If you're looking for a guidebook to the sex industry, you'll find tidbits here, but her life preceding her entry into stripping and sex work is where my interests mostly laid as I read.

"Everyone I talked to told me not to get into adult films," Jameson writes. And yet, she did. Along the way, she charted a path of decadence, debauchery, and success for an adult film starlet largely unseen before her rise. This biography will make you laugh, it will make you cringe, it will make you want to throw up, and it might even make you want to cry. But even when she's the bad guy, you'll likely find yourself rooting for Jameson. For those who like gossipy biographies, and for those who have enjoyed the hedonistic tales of male rockstars until now, I would recommend giving this a read.

Maybe it's all Howard Stern's fault - but ANYTHING Porn, that's not really porn, I just gotta read. Jenna really truly is a good person and her memoir is both funny, sad, touching, and totally interesting from start to finish. She's a straight shooter and tells her story, just the way it happened. There's a bit too much packaging: goofy comics, lots and lots of photos - but hey, she'll do anything for her fans. Would love to have a meal with her one day.

This is so crazy and candid, I have always been intrigued about what goes behind the scenes in the adult entertainment industry which was why I picked up this book and also read Asa’s. I didn’t expect to enjoy it as much and be part of Jenna’s road to fame and adulthood. She went through so much shit, rape, drugs, alcohol, toxic relationships and managed to find someone that she could settle with.

Also I like that this shed some light on men and power which wasn’t really covered in Asa’s book. This book is definitely more informative for people that want to understand the adult entertainment industry or even break into that, she covered everything from contract negotiations to what to expect if you are set on becoming an adult entertainer.

I read this when it was first published twenty years ago (how ?!), and when my book club was talking about reading something a little saucy for our Galentine's Day meeting, this seemed like a perfect choice. It's a fascinating read, I'm sure in large part due to Neil Strauss' writing. Her life is totally insane and he has packaged it well into a fun, voyeuristic read. Recommend to fans of scandalous autobiographies - there is sex, drugs, rock and roll, movie stars, fighting, family drama, essentially every type of chaos you can imagine.

Big beware of reading in public warning, there are a lot of pictures in the book, leading me to realize it wasn't something I could keep reading on a recent flight. I had remembered the campy graphic novel components, but totally forgot that there are a ton of pictures documenting her very naked career throughout.

4.5 cok cok sevdim. krndimi ilk kez bu kadar yakin hissettim sanirim bir kitap karakterine. bunu hep yazarlar kitap yorumlarina ama bana hep yapmacik ve öylesine söylenmis gibi gelirdi ama gercekten sanki her seyi onunla yasamisim gibi hissettirdi. cok cok sevdim jenna‘yi, umarim su an cok mutludur. kesinlikle physical copysini istiyorum
aslinda 5 verecektim ama yarim puani da atladigim günlük ve kardesiyle konustugu yerlerden kirdimc basta güzeldi ama sonradan cok sıktı . fotograflari da cok begendim! gercekten fena fena güzel bir kadinmis

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3.5 stars.
It was good, much better than I was expecting. I took off a half of a star because I got tired of hearing how much everyone she came across "wanted" her, or hit on her, or tried to have sex with her. I guess it goes with the profession and the star status, but.... It didn't need pointed out so much. Makes her sound completely full of herself. I guess you would have to be full of yourself, to be a nude model and porn star.

If you're looking for a blunt, unfiltered view of the porn industry, this is it. Jenna Jameson is probably the first lady of porn and she doesn't hold back when she talks about her troubled early life, bad decisions with men, flaws, and what she's good at. I liked that the chapters mixed things up a bit, from journal entries, to multi-person dialogue, to her just telling her story. It was full of photos and details of her life she hadn't released before, along with her opinions of different celebrities and people in the industry.