Traci Lords is an American actress, model, writer, singer, producer, director and ex-porn star. She was one of the most sought after pornographic actresses of the 1980s. She is known for appearing in films such as New Wave Hookers and Beverly Hills Copulators
The FBI would later ban all of his porn videos considered child pornography, after which the overlords decided to start all over again. She refused the huge sums of money she was offered to continue in porn. The ex-porn queen managed to overcome her drug addiction problem and strived to be seen as more than a porn queen. She is now an ardent worker for the rights of underage prostitutes and victims of sexual abuse.
Who is Traci Lords?
Traci Elizabeth Lords was born as Nora Louise Kuzma to Louis and Patricia Kuzma on May 7, 1968 in Steubenville, Ohio. Her mother was of Irish descent and her father’s parents were Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. Traci has three sisters. An older one, Lorraine and two younger ones, Rachel and Grace. When he was 7, his parents’ marriage fell apart. She and her sisters lived with their mother in their great-grandmother’s house, and her father had partial custody.
When Kuzma was twelve, she and her family (which included her mother, her then-boyfriend Roger Hayes, her sisters) moved to Redondo Beach, California. She did not see her father for several years, and for this reason she became bitter with her mother. Kuzma later found a father figure in Roger Hayes, even though he was a drug addict who molested her in her sleep.
At thirteen, she became pregnant for her then boyfriend. She was afraid of what her mother would do, so she went to Hayes for help. He took her to a place where she could have an abortion without saying a word to her mother.
Here’s everything you need to know about his career
A few years later, she started looking for a job to get some money and that’s what Hayes introduced to her friend. She worked as a babysitter. The woman offered to boost Kuzma’s chances of getting a job by giving her a driver’s license and a new birth certificate, but only if she said she would steal it if she ever got caught. The new identification indicated that Kuzma was twenty-two years old instead of fifteen and was now called Kristie Elizabeth Nussman. Kuzma could now go for job interviews.
In February 1984, she responded to the newspaperadvertisement for Jim South’s global modeling agency. She went with Hayes who posed as her stepfather. Once the position was filled, she signed the contract and started working as a nude model for different magazines. Some are; Velvet, Club and Juggs.
At one point she was cast to model Penthouse Magazine and she was asked to choose a stage name, she chose ‘Traci Lords’. She said she chose ‘Traci’ because it was one of the names she loved as a child and ‘Lords’ because she had been obsessed with actor Jack Lord since watching the TV series. Hawaii Five-o.
Traci Lords made her first illicit films in October 1984 and appeared in What Makes Me Hot! alongside Tom Byron. It was his first step into the world of pornography, but it was by no means his last. After this film, Traci acted in many other sex films.
When she was 16, she starred in the porn parody of the film ‘ Splash, Talk Dirty to Me Part III ‘ with John Leslie. The film won the AVN Award for Best Picture. She was later ‘crowned’ the ‘Princess porn.” She became one of the highest-paid actresses of that era, earning $1,000 a day.
Lords continued to make more sex films until she was seventeen. She then tried to leave the sector but returned a few months later. About three weeks after she turned 18, law enforcement discovered she was underage when all but one of these films were made. She was immediately taken into protective custody and the owners of her film were arrested.
After investigations, they discovered that Lords had faked his name and age. No one was charged, but all but one of the films shot were banned in the United States.
After all this, Lords decided to go to therapy, and then decided to take acting seriously. She enrolled in a school, started auditioning, and eventually gained recognition as an actress in Hollywood. She lost a lot of roles because of her past, it will always torment her but she keeps moving forward.
She even went into music for a while and wrote a book. Traci Lords has fundamentally changed her life. She is also a strong supporter of the LGBTQ community.
Private life
Traci Lords has been married three times. His first marriage was to Brooke Yeaton in 1990. The couple were together for five years before the Lords divorced in 1995. Soon after, Lords was married to Ryan Granger from 1999 to 2000. She once again dated Jeff. Gruenewald in 2002 and five years later they welcomed their son, Gunnar Lee, who would become their first and only child. Traci was 39 when she gave birth to the boy. The couple have since remained together.