LOS ANGELES — With her first high-profile studio scene in four years being released by Brazzers on Wednesday, Ivy Lebelle is back with a bang.

An anal bang with Mazee the Goat, to be more precise.

Lebelle spoke exclusively with XBIZ to reveal details about her comeback, officially kicking off with yesterday’s release of the trailer for her new Brazzers scene, to the delight and anticipation of her legion of fans.

“Basically, the last scene I shot for mainstream was in the beginning of 2020,” Lebelle shares. “I took a super long break, for a series of reasons. First, COVID was just really stressful for everyone, and I wasn’t motivated to shoot. And then in 2021 I decided to get my implants removed…”

The experience devolved in a protracted ordeal that the brunette stunner describes as “really traumatic.”

“I honestly didn’t know if I would ever come back to mainstream,” she confides. “I had such intense and severe issues and complications with my breast implants. I didn’t really know how my breasts would look after the removal, or how I would feel in my body, or if people would even want to watch me perform.”

Concerns about her appearance — a universal worry among those who work with their looks for a living — became almost crippling to the previously confident, always in-demand performer and iconic Los Angeles exotic dancer.

“I was left with nothing,” Lebelle reveals about this dark period. “I was almost convinced it was gonna look like I had top surgery! I mean, I support top surgery for people who want it, but I definitely did not want it. Even though my doctor did an excellent job, the healing process was just really long.”

Her scars, in particular, took a long time to fade, and Lebelle just was not comfortable returning to on-camera work for about four months

“I had to ease my way back into performing,” she says. “And then I started shooting solo stuff with my top on and only to keep my OnlyFans going.”

In 2022 Lebelle started occasionally shooting collabs — still with her top on — with a few of her fellow performers and creators she trusted.

Lebelle credits her fanbase as instrumental in helping her with her body image situation — along with a couple of strategically placed tattoos.

“Most of my scars now are covered by these snake tattoos that I have,” she says. “It was even scary in my personal life, like taking off my bra in front of somebody, but the snake tattoos really helped. Also, they look really, really cool!”

Shedding her COVID-era, depression-eating pounds also helped Lebelle feel confident to return before the lenses.

“Now I’m back to the body that I recognize, and I’m kind of back to the body that I had before my implants,” she reveals. “I honestly feel like I look more youthful now. I feel very confident. It just took time. But I feel once I got the tattoos and looked at myself, I was like, ‘Okay —we’re back. We can bust them out now!’”

Lebelle says she deliberately chose Brazzers as her comeback studio as a token of gratitude for the veteran studio.

“My new Brazzers scene is a classic gonzo anal scene, because I am a gonzo queen. Gonzo is my favorite, and I know my fans know and love me for anal. I haven’t been doing a ton of anal in my OnlyFans, only a little bit, but I’ve been missing that side of me. So I just wanted to go full throttle back to ‘Old Ivy,’ the Ivy that people remember.”

For the Toni Ribas-helmed scene, Lebelle chose a leather bondage outfit and decided to be super literal with the “getting out of her cage” concept.

“I am caged in the beginning of the video, and then I’m out of my cage. I am presented with the dick and I finally get out of my cage. I’m so back! It’s really just like a sexy, dark, vibey, full sweaty, sexy anal scene.”

Lebelle shot two more scenes with Brazzers on her comeback trip to be released.

“I did want to do my comeback with them, because Brazzers was always a huge champion of me in my career, especially when I came onto this scene,” she says. “In 2017 people were still telling me that tattoos were not attractive, and that I would have trouble getting bookings. Even my fake boobs at the time seemed to be a problem. Brazzers was like ‘Big titties and tattoos? We love it!’ They were my second scene ever, and I have them to thank for a lot of my immediate success, and they continued to constantly book me and for fun scenes.”

Lebelle — who is representing herself during her comeback — says she has always had very positive experiences with Brazzers and their directors.

“I just felt it’d be nice for them to relaunch my career. And if I felt a little like I was dipping my toe in the water and wanted to see how I felt shooting these scenes, I had such a wonderful time, I’m leaning towards shooting much more mainstream in 2025.”

Lebelle also says she has something “very special” in the works with her pal Ricky Johnson’s breakaway success site Ricky’s Room.

“It’s funny because I did shoot one scene with Ricky before my official comeback with Brazzers now, but I saw that as part of the content collab I was doing,” Lebelle says. “Except his site has gotten so big, that people now almost consider it like a mainstream studio. What he has accomplished with Ricky’s Room is so impressive — and let’s just say people should stay tuned for upcoming announcements…”

Lebelle’s comeback is also part of her full reboot of a year that turned her life upside down.

“This year has been absolutely crazy, as I’m sure a lot of people are aware of,” she adds, referring to an extremely problematic ex-boyfriend who is no longer part of her life.

“It’s all still pretty delicate, but everyone in the industry pretty much knows about it,” she reflects. “This year has been more difficult than anticipated, and my comeback is my way of reclaiming my autonomy in this profession. My career got ‘lost in the sauce’ with that guy. So it’s nice to be back and feel like Ivy again and perform on these sets. I definitely missed it a lot. It’s really great doing OnlyFans — it’s so fun to just have the ease of filming at home and interacting with fans — but there’s nothing compared to being on set, if you like being on set.

“And I love it.”