Sunny Leone From Punjabi kudi to international porn star

Penthouse Pet of the Year 2003 and now a Vivid Girl, the California-based buxom brunette is busy planning a big fat Punjabi wedding as well as an American one in March next year.

Sunny Leone - the adopted name of the Sikh girl - is, in fact, grateful to the adult entertainment industry for introducing her to her fiancé, Matt Erickson, a senior executive with a major adult company.

`We met at an adult webmaster convention and have been dating for four years now,` Sunny, 26, told IANS in on e-mail.

Matt is the only male with whom she has enacted the sex act for a film that is to be released next year. So far, the admitted bisexual has done only girl-on-girl films.

Vivid`s first interactive DVD, Virtual Vivid Girl Sunny Leone, featuring her, has won an industry award this year. She was also offered a role in a Bollywood movie, which has fizzled out.

Sunny runs her own website like a businesswoman. The site, she says, on some days gets more hits than the leading porn star Jenna Jameson`s. She calls the adult industry `a business just like any other` and feels no qualms about using her My Space page - which proclaims she has 32,489 friends - to attract traffic to her website.

Giving an insider`s view of the industry, Sunny says it is worth billions of dollars and has been responsible for many of internet`s advances and innovations. The industry is also on top of latest technology like VOD (video-on-demand), HD (high definition) and high density Blu-ray DVDs.

The freely available adult content on internet, she says, has affected the sales of adult magazines and movie theatres, but they are still popular. She also believes that porn`s purveyors include women.

This sultry porn star by the name of Sunny Leone got to be one of the most colorful characters in the adult industry. Her ethnicity itself is already a novelty as she is a Punjabi girl and the Punjabi is well known to be very strict. She was enrolled into Catholic school even though their family beliefs are Sikhism. She was very active when young and playing ice hockey with boys are her favorite past time.

She had her first kiss at the age of 11 and lost her virginity at the age of 16 to a basketball player from a different high school. Went she was in college studying to be a nurse, she was introduced to a photographer from Penthouse Magazines. She chose the stage name of Sunny Leone when she started posing nude for the magazine. She was Pet of the Month for March 2001.She was also Pet of the Year in 2003

In 2005, she decided to try her hand on hardcore pornography but will be doing only scenes with girls. By the year 2007, she announced that she will be doing her first boy girl scene and the news delighted many of her adoring fans. However she will be doing the scenes exclusively with her then fiancé Matt Erickson. In January 2008, Sunny Leone revealed that she is no longer exclusive only to Matt.

Being Asian, she is also a savvy business woman when she launched her own production studios under the label Sunlust Pictures. Because of her popularity, offers to do mainstream work have been pouring. She was offered once to do a Bollywood flick but her asking price could not be met by the producers. She recently starred in a Hollywood movie that soon to be release name The Middle Man. She also revealed that she will be acting alongside Will Ferrell in an up coming movie. We foresee a very Sunny Future is ahead of this Punjabi girl.