Onlyfans star Lily Phillips has ignited concern with her extreme adult content challenges – but she isn’t the first to carry out such controversial stunts.
Back in the late ’90s, porn actress Kim Halsey, known to fans by her stage name Kim Houston, rose to fame after having sex 620 times over an eight-hour period – a decision which would unfortunately later come back to haunt her. Now, fans fear for Lily’s welfare in a climate where OnlyFans creators feel they must make more extreme content in a bid to stand out on the competitive platform.
However, she has defended her mental well-being as “strong” amid the furore and has insisted people need not feel sorry for her. As Lily, 23, embarks on “training” for her upcoming 1,000-man event, the Mirror takes a look back at the life and career of Kim Houston – regarded as the Lily Phillips of her day.
Longing for fame
Kim began taking steps into the limelight as a teenage beauty queen and went on to appear in the hit beach drama series Baywatch in 1994 and 1995. Her acting career didn’t make her a fortune, however, and at the age of 27, she took the leap into porn, wanting to pursue a more lucrative career.
As she told Salon just a few weeks ahead of her now infamous 1999 stunt: “I wasn’t getting known, recognized, or being paid what I wanted to be paid. I knew in adult [the trade term for the porn industry] I could be very big, very fast.”
However, as the porn market became saturated by amateur porn, Kim, who had been marketed by company Nitro as “an ice blonde princess” in couples-orientated content, felt as though she needed to take a different direction entirely. She took the year 1997 off from shooting videos to tour the US as a feature dancer. Then, upon her return, she met with porn director John Bowen, aka ‘John T. Bone’.
John has previously directed the 1995 film ‘World’s Biggest G*** B*** I’, which saw Annabelle Chong bed 251 men. Jasmin St. Claire then took this number up to 300 in the 1996 sequel ‘World’s Biggest G*** B*** II’. For the third instalment, starring Kim, these already enormous figures were ramped up to the extreme, with the star tasked with reaching 500 sex acts.
Emotional reaction
The soundstage for ‘World’s Biggest G*** B*** III’ was made to look like a garage, with Kim dressed up as a speed racer. Far from a private shoot, Kim carried out the shoot in front of crowds of fluffers, lighting technicians, and a camera crew – and, of course, hundreds and hundreds of men.
Remembering the participants in her 2012 book Houston: Pretty Enough: The Story of the Gang Bang Queen, Kim remembered how the varied queue had included a Burt Reynolds impersonator and a male performer who’d put his own mother in a porn film to pay off his gambling debts. Kim recalled: “One by one, they climbed on top of me, and their faces became a blur.”
According to Kim, she used “porn math” to reach a grand total of 620 sex acts in eight hours flat, counting even the briefest of penetrations. When she reached 500, she was handed a black-and-silver trophy – having reached her target – however, she didn’t stop there, and her efforts soon took a physical toll.
At around the 500 to 511 mark, Kim began to feel “hot and sore”. As she explained to Salon at the time, she had to “go put ice up in there. I was on fire in there.” Reflecting on this wobble ten days after completing the ‘Houston 500’, Kim shared: “It was a little emotional for a minute. I literally started crying, and I needed off. I mean I hurt. And I was exhausted. And that was like the only thing throughout the whole day.”
She took 30 or 40 minutes to compose herself before returning and ultimately managed to bring the total up to 620. Explaining why she kept on going past the proposed 500 finishing line, Kim said: “There were still guys waiting and I felt bad. I mean a lot of guys had travelled a long time, and had paid $80 for a DNA test.”
To celebrate her feat, Kim and the crew headed to TGI Fridays, for a mozzarella stick feast. The shoot helped Kim carve out a name for herself in the then-already competitive world of adult entertainment and saw her score multiple TV and radio appearances and even a record deal.
In a 2000 interview with The New York Observer, Kim shed some light on why she’d wanted to do such an extreme shoot, divulging: “I was able to be with my fans and have the same personality all day long for ten hours and get f*****. You know, that was an accomplishment … everyone came on me, it was amazing.”
Labia auction
In a divisive move, Kim decided to have part of her labia removed in a bid to enhance her “look” during close-up shots. She then auctioned off this private piece of her anatomy for a reported $50,000 (£40,000) through the site EroticBid.
In the Observer piece, penned before the controversial auction, the reporter recalled how Kim had posed with a sculpture which turned out to be “three surgically removed pieces of her labia encased in Lucite on a marble stand”
Drug issues
Long Beach-born Kim has previously been open about her issues with drugs, having admitted to using crystal meth and cocaine, to help stay awake during long strip club shifts. As explained in her candid book, “functional addict” Kim would still be able to take care of herself and her daughter while using. However, Kim would also go for days without eating, and as her salary soared, she would spend more and more on drugs.
Kim wrote: “I had always been a functional addict in that I was obviously addicted to all the drugs I was doing, but I somehow managed to always do the work I was supposed to do in order to provide for my daughter and myself.
“But by this point, there was so much money going into drugs that no matter how much I was earning, it just wasn’t enough. One day I realised that I was going to die soon if I didn’t change anything.”
Plastic surgery obsession
Tragically, despite having won beauty contests, Kim never felt “pretty enough”, leading to a dangerous obsession with plastic surgery that nearly proved fatal. In her autobiography, Kim, who confessed she “hated” parts of herself, underwent two procedures in one go – a labiaplasty and an operation to have her silicone breast implants replaced with saline ones. Shortly after going under the knife, Kim collapsed and was rushed to hospital.
Here it was discovered that one of Kim’s breasts had become clotted, cutting off the oxygen to her brain. Thankfully, Kim survived her harrowing ordeal, which prompted her to make a fresh start and move to Las Vegas.
Change of career
After making the move, however, Kim found her drug addiction difficult to leave behind. When she could no longer collect her daughter from school, she realised she’d hit rock bottom. Kim wrote: “I crawled into my closet and crawled on the floor, and I prayed. God, please help me get off the drugs. Please. I want to be a mother for once. I don’t want to be Houston any more.”
Leaving the adult industry behind, Kim got clean and also embarked upon a completely different career as a real estate agent. After studying for her licence, Kim was hired by an agency in Nevada, Houston, but, after three years in the job, her old life eventually caught up with her.
When her new boss found out about Kim’s past as a porn star, he showed her the door, even though she’d been out of the adult entertainment world for nearly a decade. Opening up about some of the challenges she’s faced in her book, Kim revealed: “My porn-ness ruined my life at times. It’s been tough. It continues to be tough. I deal with Houston all of the time. I’ve done everything I can to get out. I’ve got my real estate license, and I’m a good hire, but will I even get hired because of who I am?”
She continued: “I had gained 40 pounds and dyed my hair brown and was in hiding pretty much. I was hiding my (porn) identity. I started dieting and dyed my hair back to blonde, and I started looking like (Houston) again.
“Sure enough, my broker, sales manager, president of my company, shows up at my site, and someone in the office, in corporate, they said, ‘We understand you used to go under the alias Houston and were a celebrity in the porn industry.’ They said you can’t be on the front lines. Here’s your final paycheck, and they let me go.”
Terrifying cancer diagnosis
Just one week after being given her marching orders, Kim received a devastating stage three cancer diagnosis, for which she had just a 20 per cent chance of survival. After having 15 of her lymph nodes removed, Kim thankfully survived and has since kept out of the spotlight, instead pouring all of her focus on family life and her “mission in Christ”.
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