1986 SPECIAL REPORT: "VANESSA DEL RIO"
Vanessa del Rio was born Ana María Sánchez and raised in Harlem, New York, the only child of immigrants from Cuba and Puerto Rico. Her mother would take her to see the Spanish language movies of Isabel Sarli, a passionate, voluptuous Argentinian actress with a charismatic power over men whom Vanessa credits as a big influence in her life.
She describes her mother as “an innocent, deeply religious woman who didn’t really relate to Sarli’s sexuality,” while her young daughter focused on Sarli’s power over men, and wanted that power for herself. After an early childhood as religious as her mother’s, Sanchez dropped out of school in the 8th grade, tired of the sheltered life imposed on her at home. She studied coding, and became a computer programmer at age 18, then abandoned the straight life altogether to live in a series of stolen Volkswagen Beetles with a criminal boyfriend.
When that adventure ended two years later she became “a waitress, then a topless barmaid, and finally a go-go dancer” before accepting her first hardcore porn role in the film China Doll because “it paid $150, which was exactly my half of the rent,” so she could join a boyfriend in Europe. In her illustrated biography from TASCHEN Publications (Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior, 2007) she revealed to editor Dian Hanson that she also worked as a streetwalker and call girl prior to entering adult films
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