LOS ANGELES –- AJ Bailey, a blue-eyed blonde with a master’s degree, has been signed by Vivid Entertainment, the world’s leading adult film studio, as its newest Vivid Girl.

The well-traveled, well-educated and glamorous AJ says the recession has made it more practical and attractive for her to take a great job as an exclusive actress with the world’s top adult movie producer than to pursue her chosen fields of anthropology and museum studies.

“I’m ready to go to work now, but just not in anthropology,” says AJ. “I’m young, I’m hot and I’m awesome. I’ll use my degree one day, but with the bad economy, now seems the perfect time to pursue stardom in the adult industry.”

Until recently AJ has been busy traveling the world and getting her master’s degree from the prestigious St. Andrews University in Scotland.

“I don’t think people realize how vital the adult business really is as a cultural phenomenon,” says AJ. “When you think about it, the main function of humans as a species is to reproduce through sex, so we might as well do the sex part in style and for the most pleasure. Sex is a primal function and is how we all get here, so I believe it’s healthy to embrace one’s sexuality.”

AJ is a 28-year-old beauty with blonde hair and blue eyes. She is 5’8″ tall and measures a natural 34C-25-33. Her debut movie for Vivid is with B. Skow directing, it will mark the first time she has performed in a sex scene with a man.

AJ was born and raised in St. Louis. “I was always very outgoing as a child and I loved the attention I got from performing. Some of my best memories are of putting on plays and dancing for friends and family,” she recalls.

Growing up in the “Bible Belt” AJ was always puzzled by the fact that many of her neighbors had no desire to learn about the world outside the Midwest. “Many people around me didn’t even want to leave the state, but I couldn’t wait to travel. So I dropped out of high school in my junior year and went to live in Australia for two years,” AJ recalls.

She returned to America at age 19, got her GED (high school equivalency diploma) and enrolled in a community college. She then transferred to the University of Missouri, from which she earned her bachelor’s degree. While studying for her master’s degree at St. Andrews University, the same school attended by Prince William only a year earlier, she would finance her studies abroad by earning money as an adult model on a sexually explicit website. She also made a few adult movies, but only playing opposite other women.

Following her graduate studies AJ settled in Los Angeles, where she enjoys hanging out with friends and cooking. “I had lived with Chinese and Indian people in Scotland and learned a lot about their cuisines. I love cooking and have even dated a few chefs,” she says. “In general I like guys who know what they want, who are respectful and have something good going for them.”