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A graduate from Warwickshire has revealed how acting in porn films helped her battle depression and improve her confidence.

Jade Buxton, better known to fans as actress Carly Rae Summers, says she is a feminist and loves her job - even though she can earn as little as £10 a hour on 14-hour shoots.

The 23-year-old from Stratford studied fashion at Manchester Metropolitan University where she started working in adult films, reports the Daily Mirror.

She said: “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 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’.”

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

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.”

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