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Ketcham in 2009
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Born |
Jennifer Ketcham February 22, 1983 Aurora, Colorado, United States |
Other names | Penny Flame, Dolly, Penni, Penny Lane |
Height | 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) |
Weight | 114 lb (52 kg; 8.1 st) |
Website | http://becomingjennie.wordpress.com/ |
No. of adult films | 482 as a performer & 9 as a director (per IAFD, as of May 2016) |
Jennifer "Jennie" Ketcham (born February 22, 1983) is an American writer, reality television personality, blogger, artist, and former pornographic actress and film director under the name Penny Flame. She has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tyra Banks Show, The View, Entertainment Tonight, Extra and Lifechangers to discuss sex addiction, and her blog has been featured on Last Call with Carson Daly.
At age 18, Ketcham answered an ad in a San Diego paper, through which she entered the pornographic film business. She performed scenes in well over 200 pornographic features, originally filmed between 2002 and 2009 (although some have been released after she retired).
In 2005, Ketcham directed an instructional video for Shane's World Studios. She also directed the pornographic films Shane's World: Girls Night Out 1-3, Blazed and Confused 1-3 and Penny Flame's Out of Control. In 2008, she signed a deal with Vivid Entertainment and Tristan Taormino to direct her own line of movies under the studio's sex education imprint, Vivid-Ed; the first film was "Penny Flame's Expert Guide to Handjobs", and the second "Penny Flame's Expert Guide to Rough Sex". She retired from the industry in 2009 to enroll in college, and fully realize her skills as a writer and illustrator.
Ketcham states she became sexually active at age 12, and that she practiced safe sex as a youth. She has explained that her sexual activity was a way for her to achieve the emotional validation missing from her relationships with family and friends. Her parents divorced when she was 13; Ketcham ceased speaking to her father and did not do so again until she was 26.