Ivy grew up in Studio City, the daughter of an Italian father and a Texan mother, inside what she describes as a strict Christian household. The escape route she found at fifteen was a fake ID and the goth club scene, which she has talked about with a kind of fond self-awareness — the predictability of it, the rebellion that ran exactly on schedule. She spent most of her adult life doing two things: makeup artistry and dancing, cycling through nearly every bikini bar in LA at some point. She had been orbiting the industry for a long time before she entered it. Skin Diamond is one of her close friends and had been for years, so she understood the work in a more concrete way than most people who arrive from outside it. She has talked openly about living a double life during the transition period, about faking orgasms, about what actually happens on set versus what people imagine happens. She also has a podcast and has spoken publicly about what social media does to people's capacity for intimacy — not as a talking point, but as something she seems to have thought about carefully.
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