“The first porn I saw was one of my dad’s Playboys,” Tera Patrick said, “I thought, ‘She looks beautiful.’ And that’s all I thought.”

Patrick is hosting AVN’s 25th annual awards show Saturday night.

“And when I did Playboy myself, I thought, ‘I feel beautiful’. And what was weird was that I was standing there naked in the middle of the room and everyone was rushing around and no one was looking at me.”

When it came to moving from the printed page to video, Patrick acknowledges that some people suddenly became prudish.

“They were saying, ‘How can you do that?’” she said. “And I said, ‘The only differences between that simulated stuff in the magazine and what I’m doing now is that I’m spending less time doing it and I don’t have to hold still.”

Patrick is sanguine about being a porn star and unapologetic. Maybe it’s because her parents aren’t from here.

“I never want to denounce the fact that I am or was a porn star,” she said. “It’s opened a lot of doors for me. I’ve met some wonderful people.”

And Patrick has achieved that level of fame in porn that people buy the whole Tera product, rather than focusing on parts of her anatomy.

“What I’ve come to realize is that people aren’t watching me arch my toes,” she said.

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