From www.straight.com- Desiree Devine wasn’t always a 305-pound porn star. Three years ago, at the age of 23, she had just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in engineering and was keeping her six-foot frame in athletic shape. She was, literally, half her current weight—150 pounds—she told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview from Florida, where she’s on location for a video shoot.

“Then I got cancer and put on the weight,” she recalled. “I thought my life was going to be over.…Who was going to want me when I was all fat? I thought I was just disgusting.”

Depressed but finished her cancer treatment, Devine didn’t work or socialize much for a year. Then a friend of a friend, who was in the adult-entertainment industry, said she liked Devine’s look. Would she consider appearing in a video with her?

“It was very liberating,” Devine said. “You’re in front of a camera and you lose all your modesty, because the camera picks up every flaw, every piece of cellulite.…At the same time, you take a huge risk because there’s so many people who want to criticize you.…But I’ll take the bad with the good, because the good is so good.”

Now porn is her full-time gig. Her Web site opens with a crotch shot; Devine reclines to reveal her rolls and masturbates with what looks like a cherry Chupa Chups lollipop. Her video credits include Whale Watching 3; Big Tits Big Toys 2, and many others. Devine was one of a handful of entertainers who represented the Big Beautiful Women category for the first time at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, which took place in January at the Sands Expo centre in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Fat sex is either your thing or it’s not, Devine said. But more and more porn fans, she explained, are admitting their love for BBW. If porn is the ultimate gauge of what’s desirable in the 21st century, Devine’s conclusion is that it’s hip to be fat.