If you ask Tabitha Stevens, "What's new?" pull
up a chair and be ready for a long answer. The seven-year porn
veteran is working in music, doing voice-overs for Japanese
cartoons, getting Entertainment Tonight to chronicle (and pick
up part of the tab for) $30,000 worth of plastic surgery ("I'm
addicted," she says with a surgically-enhanced smile) and
running her own video stores between performing in videos. In
fact, when this interview was conducted in mid-June, Stevens
hadn't been before the porn cameras since February.
What has she been doing?
"Let’s see, I’ve been on Howard Stern’s
show five or six times this year, and a movie with Rodney Dangerfield
on HBO with Ron Jeremy, we were actually having simulated sex,
so I kind of had sex in front of the camera. I did this video
for Uncle Cracker, then I did the American Music Awards. My
parents were so happy because I actually had clothes on, they
actually taped it."
Like I said - a long answer.
Take the plastic surgery. "I had cheek implants put in,
one of them he put in crooked, he put them in the wrong way,"
she explains. "He put them in through my eye; they were
supposed to go in through my mouth. Well, one of them shifted,
it was coming out of my eye. He had fixed it, but it was shifting
again, and it was very uncomfortable. So I went back to him
so he could fix it again. And he wanted to charge me to do it.
And I said, 'You can kiss my ass.'"
Enter ET, on a white horse. "Entertainment Tonight wanted
to do a story on plastic surgery and I said, 'You know what?
Why don’t we work out a deal where you hook me up with
a doctor and you can show it on TV?' So, I did that," Stevens
says. "I wanted to fix my nose, because the last doctor
caused me a deviated septum and I didn’t have a right
nostril. I needed a hole. Which is good in our business...
"He went in and fixed my nostril, got rid of my gummy smile,
there’s an implant underneath my nose and it pushes down,
so when I smile, the lip doesn’t go up. Then to balance
my face out he put a chin implant in on the bottom. He also
took fat from the side of my leg and put it inside my cheeks
so I don’t have that gaunt look."
She's taking that new face to her video store, Jolly's, in Orange
County's Lake Forest. "I go down there three times a week
just to check everything out," she notes. "I'll be
checking in inventory and cleaning shelves, and people don't
believe it's me."
Stevens is a hands-on owner. Employees are trained in how to
use and test toys, and "it's about equal, men and women,
who come in." She also fired an area manager recently.
"He wasn't doing his job," she says. "He was
on salary, and was coming in maybe two hours a day. And when
he comes in he's in the office. That's taking advantage. And
he was stealing from me. Time to move on."
There are plans to open another store. "I'm not going to
say the location," Stevens says. "In the next few
years I want a chain of six. Once I get my formula down, then
it's okay to expand territories."
If you hear a familiar voice in Japanese animations for NuTech,
that's her too. "Usually what they do in animation is,
they’ll have the actor come in and do his lines, and later
on they fill in the cartoons with the voice," Stevens explains.
"We have to actually match the voice with the cartoons.
It’s really tough. You’ll have a line in Japanese
that instead of saying, 'Hi, how are you?' you have to add five
more lines to it because it’s so long. When you watch
it afterwards you kind of laugh at it. You can really tell who
can act and who can’t just by their voices."
That February shoot was Dripping Wet Sex for Simon Wolf, which
has been set for a late June release. "It took a while
to release that," she notes. "It's awesome. But now
I don't like to work for other people. I prefer to work for
myself."
Where next? Mainstream? More adult? "I don't count on anything,"
Stevens says. "If it happens, it happens. I'll give it
all I can, but I'm not going to sit there and wait for it. I'm
known in this industry. In mainstream, I'm the little fish in
a big pond. I have a name, but that porn stigma... I'm not a
bad person because I do what I do."
And another boob job. "I've had five boob jobs, but I want
to get another to reshape them," she says. "Maybe
lipo on my pinky toe, because it's a little bit fatter than
the other ones. I want to do that just to say that I did it.
And then I want to save the fat from my toe - and sell it on
the Internet! No, I'm joking."
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