When in her early teens, Sunny Leone chanced upon a porn DVD in the closet of her conservative Sikh home in Canada, she was shocked. Sunny hurriedly kept the DVD back from where she had found it. And the next time she watched porn was at the age of 19. “We were all young people inside a house, playing games, some running around naked,” says Sunny, whose maiden name is Karen Malhotra. She changed her first name from Karen to Sunny because ‘Sunny’ sounded a lot more fun. “It was Bob Guccione (ex-editor of Penthouse magazine) who added the Italian surname Leone to it,” says Sunny.Sunny, who made a conscious decision of doing porn films, says, she had to choose between school and $1,00,000 and she chose modeling for the prestigious
Penthouse magazine. I travelled across the world and learnt so much doing interviews for radio and television,” she waxes eloquent.
And it is strange but true that her relationship with her husband Daniel is a conservative one. “We don’t have any adult material at home. When you visit us you will never know what we do for a living. And I work only with my husband,” says the porn star, who is currently waiting for the release of
Pooja Bhatt’s sequel to
Jism. Apparently, Sunny will also be part of Ekta Kapoor’s sequel to
Ragini MMS. “I have worked really hard for
Jism 2, I have learnt Hindi,” Sunny smiles.