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visit pleasure podcasts.com. Hello everybody welcome back to Holly Randall and Filtered. I am so

thrilled to have a very special guest here today. She went from being a

professional ballet dancer to a camp girl to now being two ABI

nominations all in just three years. And you might recognize her name from the headlines after

her dating life went completely viral back in February.

Welcome, Melissa Stratton.

Hey guys, thanks for having me.

Of course, thank you so much for coming.

So before we get into, I mean mean I guess actually this will lead into how you started to get into the adult industry but I'm really I want to hear about your background in ballet.

Oh yeah and we talked a little bit about earlier about like how you

were kind of a nerd when you were younger and like you weren't hot and so you had to

develop this thing called a personality which terrible way to grow up yeah I know I definitely I grew up moving around a lot so I never had like a like a good core group of friends and I think that's what really made me super nerdy and so even now I consider myself a kind of an introvert I'm very happy

being alone you know some most of the time whatever so I feel like that I was very

weird nerdy child and then obviously doing ballet my whole childhood

didn't make me any cooler like at all because you know every day after school I was in the

studio and every summer I would go to summer programs, you know, nationwide or internationally and I was really good.

And it was about high school where I was like, man, I don't know if I really want to do this.

I kind of want to finally have a normal life.

And so I was apprenticing with a company and I just kind of like burned out and was like, I don't

want to do this. Okay. So then a couple years pass, I get my my degree I work in a professional field and I have like a

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