Naomi, Dana, and Mika: Almost Famous

Some will say that it is just a sign of a living language, others will decry it as further evidence that we are in the end times linguistically. Irregardless, the first thing I thought when I saw these "before they were famous" shots of Naomi, Dana DeArmond, and Mika Tan from Pink Visual's new "Before They Were Stars" was "OMG!"

While the winning personalities we know and love are still in evidence, there is less of some of our featured stars today than there was in this video.

Read more about "Before The Were Stars"—and see who describes herself as a "truck driver in a porn star's body"—after the gap. - GP

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Also included in the compilation are Brea Bennett and Avena Lee. All the scenes originally surfaced on the Internet.

To be fair, folks like Mika Tan and Dana DeArmond (who self-applied the truck driver label) were already porn stars when these videos were made; Tan, in fact, has been around almost forever in porn terms. But the real shocker is Naomi (here called "Naomi St. Claire") who, in less than a year, shed a certain delightful fleshiness for her current sex-whippet state.

DeArmond's scene clearly identified her as an InterWeb celebrity. It's June 16 of last year and she cruises Porn Valley for a girl in a similar MySpace band t-shirt. DeArmond's commitment to craft is evident in that June 16 is also her birthday. "Do you want to come back to my house?" she asks 20-year-old Lorena. "I have air conditoning." (Cue sobs.)

Nostalgia happens quickly in a business with such a high turnover. Whither Grant Goodeve?

· Pink Visual (pinkvisual.com)
· Order: Pink Visual's "Before They Were Stars Volume 1" (Adult DVD Empire)