A Manchester fashion graduate has lifted the lid on her career as an adult film star.

Better known to her fans as porn actress Carly Rae Summers, in real life she is Jade, a 23-year-old fashion graduate.

She says she “loves” her job but admits that the job is not as glamorous or always as sexy at it seems.

The adult actress says she is a feminist and reckons since taking up her career her confidence in her body image has increased.

However, she can earn as little as £10 a hour on 14-hour shoots she has to fly to Europe to film.

Even her mum has seen one of her films online.

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She told the Daily Mirror: “When you think of porn you think of these bright orange girls with masses of make-up on. I don’t want to be like every other porn star out there, I want to be me and no-one else.

“I have watched porn online and was always fascinated and thought it was something I might get involved in.

“If I wanted to get a job in fashion I’d have to do an unpaid internship for a year and work five days a week unpaid full time.

“Getting into porn changed my life and made my life at university better.

“I tried so hard to make friends but I couldn’t, I cried every day and had depression badly, my life was in a bad place.

“Then I got into this and people were telling me I was beautiful and people wanted to know me, it brought me out of my shell and gave me confidence in myself and to believe in myself.”

Jade, from Warwickshire, studied fashion at Manchester Metropolitan University and it was there she got into porn.

She started by selling pictures and videos of herself online and then she was contacted and asked to make a porn film.

She said: “I suddenly had £100 in my bank account every few weeks and I could go shopping and it made me happy.

“One day I got an email through the website asking if i would like to make a porno and I was ‘Yes I would love to that, it sounds amazing.”

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Her ambition is to be a big porn star but admits that she has not been proud of some of her earlier shoots and that her family have expressed concerns about what she does.

She added: “I don’t know how she found it online. Originally my mum cared a lot, but since she has found out I’m not going to dodgy hotels she is more relaxed.

“If I was to have a daughter in future I don’t think I would mind her doing porn but it’s not something you would want of your child.”

Despite her experience she has not been put off, and says: “I’m completely in control of the situation because I am a complete feminist, everything I do is all about me.

“I do these things because I want to."

She features in a new BBC Three documentary Jade: Why I Chose Porn where she is shown flying to Barcelona to shoot a virtual reality film.

She said: “What turns me on is there is a camera in front of me, it’s not to do with who I am filming with, just the fact I am getting filmed I really get into.

Although the sexual health of adult performers is carefully monitored she admits in the film she was given chlamydia once.

Asked why she went into porn Jade says: “My parents were strict and restrictive of everything I did that’s why i rebelled and ended up how I have.

“If you let your child do what they want and be their own person she probably wouldn’t make the same decisions I did.

“Any daughter I had probably wouldn’t end up making porn like I did because she would be ‘where is the fun in that, there is no point in me doing this if my mum is all for it.”

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She says her choice of career has had a bad influence on her personal life and in the past has struggled to have a lasting relationship.

She said: “My ex-boyfriend was all for it to start with but then I would go to shoots and he would think I was sleeping with the photographer.

“I would rather do porn or have a boyfriend, not do both at the same time.

“I’m torn between the two, I want the career and something to show for all my hard work but then I want the love life, I want the boyfriend, I want the simple life.

“I want to be with someone for two, three years, and want to live with then and get a puppy together and that stuff, that’s the lifestyle I am desperate for.”

The film shows her travelling to America for a series of jobs hoping to make the big time.

“I feel so much more liberated and have much better body confidence than I could ever have dreamed of years ago because of what I have done and am proud of.

“I’m going to be Googling myself at a very old age to see if I am still there online.”

Jade: Why I Chose Porn is available from bbc.co.uk/bbcthree and BBC Three on iPlayer on Tuesday 2 August from 10am.