She even decided not to attend college in favor of staying with her family at the rescue center.Īlongside the Torres family, the shelter also employs many parolees who help perform daily care tasks to ensure the dogs are being taken care of.Īs the parolees train the dog to have less violent temperaments, both the dogs and the people experience healing from past traumas. Tia Maria Torres – has been helping her mom at the shelter for as long as she can remember, along with her sister, her two adopted brothers, and their wives. However, in 2011, the shelter relocated to Greater New Orleans in Louisiana. Initially, she started the shelter in Agua Dulce, California. Her mother, Tia Maria Torres, is the founder of Villalobos Rescue Center. Mariah has grown up to be a very beautiful woman with many artistic and expressive tattoos and a very distinct sense of fashion. Torres has performed in beauty pageants ever since she was 11 years old.Īt 11, Mariah started competing in beauty pageants – her dream was to grow up and become a “beauty queen.” ”I have a huge and confusing family,” she said in November 2020. She has twin brothers named Keli’i and Kanani, as well as a sister named Tania. Her father was not really in the picture, but it seems that her ex-stepdad Aren Jackson played a big part in her childhood. Her mother – Tia Torres – was married to Aren Marcus Jackson. Mariah was born on September 6, 1991, in California, USA.
She is part of the cast of Animal Planet’s television series Pit Bulls & Parolees.Īnimal Planet’s show Pit Bulls & Parolees is aiming to change the perception of people towards Pitbulls.
Instead, Spiegler argues that more work equals higher rates - not the color of skin of the person you're performing with on-screen.īlack performer-turned-agent Tee Reel tells the Beast: “As a black man, I don’t take it personally when a girl says, ‘I don’t want to do interracial.’ In the business, some girls who say they don’t do interracial I’ve actually had sex with off camera.Mariah Torres is an American reality star who helps run the nation’s largest pit bull animal shelter – the Villalobos Rescue Center. "But we don’t do that: it’s the same rate for noninterracial.” “Some agents will charge a premium for girls who do interracial," says Spiegler. Sasha Grey and Katsumi started out doing interracial it doesn’t seem to have hurt them," he says. “In the old days, you start out slow and work your way up. Mark Spiegler is starting to notice an industry change, though. They aren’t anti-black, they just never had the opportunity." “It’s not as if they have some racist gene. “Sometimes the first black guy they have been exposed to is in the industry, ” says Tee Reel, a black adult performer-turned-agent. 1 reason I hear,” adult actor agent Mark Spiegler tells The Beast, "and that doesn’t mean it’s true, is ‘my family wouldn’t like me doing it.’” Snow confirms, "I’ve met a handful of girls who thought their families would be more OK with finding out they did porn than finding out they did interracial porn." This remains a popular marketing strategy," says Snow.įamily. An interracial porn shoot frequently portrays the big black man with the tiny white girl. As TMZ bluntly states : "More black equals less green." A current myth, alluded to in Kanye West’s song “ Hell of a Life ,” is that directors will pay a girl less once she has shot interracial scenes. "Most girls in the industry hear at some point from their agent or another performer that an actress can increase the longevity of her career by refusing interracial scenes," adds Snow. " The sheer size of these guys can be intimidating."Ĭareer anxiety. "One reason for some actresses’ reluctance might be size," says Snow. Why is interracial sex on tape still taboo in the industry? Here are a few reasons:
Snow confirmed the stats, saying "My experience has taught me that the adult audience is far more progressive than porn-industry leaders." "Another agency, Spiegler Girls, is more typical of top agents: 75 percent to 80 percent of its performers say they shoot interracial material." "According to LA Direct Models’ online listings, only about 20 percent of its performers are willing to film interracial scenes," reports the Beast. Texas refused to comment for the Beast's article, but she isn't alone with her preferences.
The topic was brought to light recently when fans began to notice that popular porn star Alexis Texas has appeared in hundreds of adult films - but never with someone who isn't white like her. “Racism exists, and it exists in porn ,” award-winning porn star Kristina Rose confirmed to The Beast.