Sunny Leone – “If I cared about what people thought of me I wouldn’t be where I am right now”: B’day Special
Karenjit Kaur Vohra aka Sunny Leone is a Canadian born Indian American actress and model, currently active in Indian film industry. Karenjit Kaur was born on May 13, 1981 in Sarnia, Ontario to Sikh Punjabi parent. Her father was born in Tibet and raised in Delhi, while her mother (who died in 2008) was from Sirmaur, Himachal Pradesh. As a young girl, she was a self-described tomboy, very athletic and played street hockey with the boys.
Although the family was Sikh, her parents enrolled her in Catholic school as it was felt to be unsafe for her to go to public school.
When she was 13, her family moved to Fort Gratiot, Michigan, then to Lake Forest, California a year later,
fulfilling her grandparents’ dream that the family be together in one place.
She had her first kiss at 11,lost her virginity at 16 with a basketball player and discovered her bisexuality at 18.
Sunny Leone pornstar. She has American citizenship. She has also used the stage name Karen Malhotra She was named PenthousePet of the Year in 2003, was a contract performer for Vivid Entertainment, and was named by Maxim as one of the 12 top porn stars in 2010.
That same year, Leone signed a three-year contract with Vivid Entertainment with which she transitioned into the world of hardcore pornography, stating that she would only do lesbian scenes. Her first movie released was titled Sunny and was released in December 2005. Her next movie, Virtual Vivid Girl Sunny Leone, was the first interactive title for Leone, who was the first Vivid Girl to make such a movie. Taking only four days to film, the movie won her first AVN Award (Best Interactive DVD). She followed this with Sunny Loves Cher, which featured her first on-screen squrting, and The Female Gardner co-starring Mikayla Mendez and Daisy Marie.
In August 2009, she announced the launch of her own studio, Sunlust Pictures, with Daniel Weber as her partner. With her new venture Leone announced her plans to write, direct and create her own brand of adult movie with Vivid Entertainment as her distributor. Her first independent production, The Dark Side of the Sun, was released in March 2009, and was debuted at the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas.In June 2009, she held a casting call in Las Vegas for her second independent production titled Sunny Slumber Party (released September 2009).She followed up with three other self-produced features Gia Portrait of a Porn Star (2010) which was nominated for multiple AVN awards,Roleplay (2011) and Goddess (2012) which featured her first anal sex scene.
In 2011, she participated in the Indian reality series Bigg Boss 5, entering the house on day 49. However, he refused to divulge her porn star status, and replied to fellow house-mate Pooja Bedi that she was a model and a TV star in America for the last ten years or so.It was reported that she caused a stir in the larger populace with her Twitter feed gaining 8,000 new followers in just 2 days and Google saying searches for her experienced a “breakout”. There were also complaints lodged with the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting alleging that the Colors TV channel was promoting pornography by having Leone appear on the show.
During her stay in the Bigg Boss house, Leone was approached by Bollywood film-maker Mahesh Bhatt who entered the house briefly to offer her the lead role in Jism 2 (the sequel to the 2003 film Jism). She accepted it, which resulted in Pooja Bhatt‘s production house, Fish Eye Network and Leone’s agent discussing the movie further. Leone entered Bollywood in 2012 with the film Jism 2 to weak critical reception but was commercially successful. Sunny Leone signed her second Bollywood film, Ragini MMS 2, sequel to Ekta Kapoor‘s crossover horror movie Ragini MMS.[117] Sunny Leone featured in an item number in the Sanjay Gupta and Ekta Kapoor‘s 2013 film Shootout at Wadala.
