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BREE OLSON With her nom de porn a mixture of a high school friend’s first name and a spin on the Olsen sisters’ last name, Bree Olson (real name Rachel Marie Oberlin) spent five years in the skin trade from 2006 to 2011.
A little over a month ago, former adult film star Bree Olson released a detailing the difficulties she has encountered because of her past in porn. She discusses the hardships of transitioning from the porn industry to the mainstream scene and the harassment she has endured, and she ends the video with a warning: “I send a very strong message to young girls: Don’t do porn… You’re just going to have a life of crap in front of you.” A description of the video reads, “In reality there are no happy endings for the women of porn.”
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Olson, 29, moved recently from Los Angeles to Fort Wayne, Indiana. In an email interview with CNN she said she left the porn industry in 2011 and tried to launch several businesses that failed. She now works reluctantly as a cam model, a term for men and women who perform sex acts on live webcams for Internet customers. She has a girlfriend, and Bree Olson is not her real name.
