Nong Nat, 31 with husband Harold (Picture: SWNS)

A former porn star has found love with a man 39 years her senior, thanks to prayer and Buddhist meditation.

Nong Nat, 31, featured in dozens of adult films including Asian Heart and Tokyo Hunter.

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But when police recognised her from hardcore porn VHS tapes, she was prosecuted as porn is illegal in Thailand.

She was given a six month suspended sentence and fined in 2003 and decided to change her lifestyle to become a devout Buddhist.


In 2012, she married American millionaire architect Harold Jennings Nesland Jr, aged 70.

‘Prayers and meditation get you a good husband,’ she said, saying it was her newly devout outlook that helped her land a man who gave her generous ‘monthly payments’.

She married Harold Jennings Nesland Jr in 2012 (Picture: SWNS)

She says ‘good deeds, meditation and praying’ brought them together (Picture: SWNS)

Since then, she has posted snaps of their domestic bliss on social media, including helping her husband take off his socks.



In one picture of them having dinner together she wrote: ‘I pay for this dinner. You don’t need to pay now, honey. Just pay me back at the end of the month.’

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Nong – who also used the name Nat Chanapa – said: ‘I’ve been making merit a lot lately (doing good deeds).

‘Other than receiving kindness from my husband from his monthly payments, he has also been giving me extra money, too.

‘No matter how much he withdraws from the bank, he splits it with me 50/50.

‘Prayers and meditation get you a good husband.’

She helps her husband take off his socks (Picture: SWNS)

They fell in love after she converted to Buddhism (Picture: SWNS)

Following controversy over her porn films, Nong quit the adult industry and devoted her life to Buddhism despite big money adult film offers.

But the model, whose full name is Kejsarin Chaichalermphol, has carried on posting revealing photos on Instagram despite her newly religious outlook.

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She said: ‘I used to be a Christian but I’ve been a Buddhist since I was about 21 years old. Recently I’ve started doing good deeds a lot more and taking the religion so seriously.

‘I visit the temple, study and have to look after my family. All my time is taken up with donations, praying and meditating.

‘Buddhism changed my mind a lot, it changed the way I lived my life. I’m a lot happier now.’