Biography

September 29, 1976 · Portland, Oregon, USA

Kara Brinson

5′ 4″ (1.63 m)

Appeared in an episode of the TV series Blind Date (1999) on November 2000.

Has small body-piercings on her tongue, eyebrow, and navel.

First solo box cover was My Baby Got Back 28 (2002).

Biracial (mother is white and father is black).

I was fresh out of high school and looking to make some extra money. I had seen the HBO soft-core stuff and really wanted to try. I answered the ad, got involved in the industry and over the years, became more interested in making it a career.

[on her childhood] I was shy and scary. I grew up in small towns where there were not a lot of ethnic people so I kind of kept to myself. I cried a lot and got bullied. I was very introverted.

I went through different phases. When I moved to L.A. I went through some culture shock. Before the move I lived in mostly white neighborhoods where I got harassed for being black. I moved to L.A. and suddenly I was in black neighborhoods where they gave me problems for being white. I just finally had to make a stand. When I got to L.A., I developed a coldness. The way people treat you can make you very closed off. I can't please either race so I had to just be myself. I was also opening up sexually. Before I got here, I was still doing missionary only, I never moaned or even moved. I went through the cultural and sexual changes and then in the last two years I have wanted to know more people in the industry. I've really opened up and let people see who I am. It's been a three-step process.

[on the "ethnic" lines' obsession with the female rear] Oh yeah. Exactly. The ethnic lines do focus on the booty. I think it's a little degrading. It's something that maybe I didn't see for a while, but I'm learning more about this business every year. Video Team's "My Baby Got Back" is not quite as degrading in the title and the boxes are elegant. They take the time to make things look good. Some of the other lines like "Black Street Hookers" don't even bother to make the girls look good.

I get a lot of fan feedback from black fans. I've done some music videos and the hip-hop stuff brings that in. I would like to touch everybody. The movies I've been doing recently will help out with that. Sometimes I come to these shows and people don't even know who I am unless they are black. I don't like that. I want everyone to know me.