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A Day In the Life: Sinnamon Love

A PEEK AT THIS PORN SUPERSTAR’S PRIVATE LIFE PROVES THAT EVEN A SPECIALIST AT HOT, DEVIANT SEX CAN BE THE MOST NORMAL PERSON IN HER NEIGHBORHOOD.

“Would you like a muffin? I baked them this morning.” It’s not the greeting I expected from one of the raunchiest performers in the history of hard-core. But even after 15 years in the biz, Sinnamon Love still isn’t your usual porn star. She’s a consummate professional, but also a cleanliving homebody and loving parent. The 34-year-old bombshell runs her Web sites, shoots her hard-core content and raises her daughter as a single mother— all at her three-level townhouse in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley. Sinnamon Love, you could say, is the ultimate stay-at-home mom.

I arrive around eight in the morning, a few minutes after she’s sent her ten-year-old off to school. “I don’t let anyone from the porn world into the house until my daughter leaves,” Sinnamon explains. “And everyone is out by the time she gets home. I keep those two worlds strictly separate.” I look around: a typical kitchen decorated by her daughter’s drawings, a spacious living room with plush, wall-to-wall carpeting, cozy furniture and a TV tuned to The View. The mantelpiece is covered with family portraits and pictures of Sinnamon as a girl, a teenager and a mom. It couldn’t be more perfectly suburban and middle class. A cute dog pads into the kitchen and hides behind her legs. “His name is Duke,” Sinnamon says. “He’s shy around men.” I make some wisecrack about how it must be tough on the little guy with strange men regularly dropping in to bang his mistress. “I put him in his little cage when I’m shooting, so he doesn’t come upstairs,” Sinnamon explains. She offers me some fresh-brewed coffee, then fills me in on her morning routine. “I get up at 5 a.m., hop on my computer and check my e-mail,” the multitasker begins. “I’m in the shower by 5:30. Even if I’m not shooting, I usually do my makeup early. It’s a time-saver. At 6:30 I wake up my daughter. Our biggest fights are about what she’s allowed to wear. She’ll want to wear something sexy, and I have to tell her, ‘Take that off; they’ll send you home if you wear that!’”

A porn mom’s life if full of irony, I think to myself. “We have breakfast and watch Good Morning America while I’m doing her hair,” Sinnamon continues. “She wants to watch cartoons, but I like her to know what’s going on in the world. After she leaves for school, I have about an hour to clean up and do the laundry before I start shooting.” No housekeeper? “Sometimes I get requests from submissives who want to come in and clean,” Sinnamon replies, “but it depends on my schedule. It’s usually easier for me to do it myself. To be honest, it’s hard to find a sub who really wants to clean well.” Sinnamon has cleared the day for us, but grime never rests. “Usually by now, I’m in front of the camera,” she huffs, scouring until the countertop is blinding. “But I’m in a cleaning mood. I just have to get this clean. My shooting schedule is from 9 to 2. I don’t like to leave the house, which sounds kind of crazy, but I don’t like driving.” She gets suddenly dead serious: “I was in a really bad car accident a while ago. Went right through the windshield. So I try to shoot most of my content here.”

In addition to her more traditional fare, Sinnamon was one of the first black stars to become a fetish favorite, serving various niches like smoking, foot, bondage, even sneezing porn. “I shoot four scenes a month for hard-core and 30 clips a month for each clips-for-sale site,” she says. “The fetish sites are huge.” Sinnamon grabs her cell phone and checks the time. It’s 8:42. “Duke has a nine o’clock with the groomers,” she announces. We head out into her sunny, serene Tarzana neighborhood and turn the corner onto the main drag. A road crew is standing around a hole in the street. A couple of the hard hats stare as Sinnamon struts past. Spotting my camera, one of them grins. I ask her if people recognize her often. “People recognize me in the supermarket all the time,” she says. “There are a lot of porn industry people who live around here, of course, but regular people know me as well. I’m always friendly to them, and they’re usually nice. I like having fans.” At a few minutes to nine her cell rings. “Hey girl!” She launches into some chitchat. Then, “Feel like doing some content today?”

Porn is a profession of opportunity. With performers booked solid, you have to jump when talent comes available. “Cool, I’ll call you back.” It looks like our nonporn day might get cut short. We leave Duke at the groomers and head back to Sinnamon’s place. As I follow her upstairs to collect the laundry, she catches me gawking at her legendary booty. “That’s a lot of ass,” I remark. She giggles politely. “People have been saying to me lately, ‘Your ass has gotten bigger,’ but it really just lifted up from going up and down stairs all day. My body transforms a lot, depending on what I’m doing.” By the time the laundry’s churning in the washer, it’s ten o’clock. “It feels like half the day is gone!” Sinnamon grumbles. I remind the actress that we should reconstruct her morning for the benefit of our readers. That would mean a shower scene, of course. “Sure!” Sinnamon exclaims. “I’ve never done a shoot in my shower. That’ll be fun.” I agree.

Always the pro, our gracious hostess decides to freshen up her makeup. She throws on some Amy Winehouse and sings along, wielding an eyeliner pencil. “I do everything backwards, lipstick and eye shadow first,” she explains. “I think of it as the order of disorder.” Her comment reminds me of something else that makes Sinnamon unusual in the skin biz: brains. She launched her XXX livelihood after earning a psychology degree from the University of Southern California. To escape the post-college debt trap, she went into porn. Selfemployment suits her, but Sinnamon admits she sometimes reconsidered her career choice, especially after the birth of her first child. “I took a couple of years off and worked in a medical lab downtown,” she recalls. “It was tough and just as dangerous. One day I took a urine sample, and it was burgundy-colored. I said to myself, ‘That’s hep C. I may as well go back into porn.’” Sinnamon wraps up the makeup session.

The transformation from mom to porn goddess is striking. “I look totally different with makeup on,” she says. “Sometimes my daughter comes home after a shoot, and she’ll say, ‘Who are you, and what have you done with my mom?’” I seize on the comment to ask a delicate question: “How aware is your daughter that her mother is a porn star?” “She has questions sometimes,” Sinnamon replies. “I’ve always told her, ‘I’m an actress. And sometimes there are other people, and sometimes those people are naked.’ But now she’s in sex education at school, and she’s like, ‘Mom, that’s what you do?! That’s gross!’ ” Sinnamon adds that some of the parents know what she does for a living, but it hasn’t been a problem. “Whenever there’s some function at the school, I make muffins and cupcakes,” she says. “They’re like, ‘Omigod, she made them; she didn’t buy them.’ I’m a normal parent. That’s what people see.

And this is California, after all.” SINNAMON LOVE is originally from Michigan, where being a porn star would get you ostracized. Despite the distance and her brazen career, she’s kept her roots strong. “My family is still in Flint,” she says. “I go back there a few times a year, and I talk to my mom three or four times a day. I’m a big family person.” Her cell phone buzzes. It’s Mom, right on cue. Sinnamon tells her about taking Duke to the groomers and mentions that a HUSTLER reporter is following her around for a story. She even lets her mother know that she might be shooting some content later that day. “I tell my mother everything,” Sinnamon says afterward. “It’s one of the things that keep me grounded.” She confides that her family wasn’t happy about her going into porn, but they’ve always been supportive. “I love my mom, and we have a very strong relationship,” she goes on. “I know how important that is, so that’s why I make sure I take good care of my own daughter.”

By 10:30 it’s finally shower time. Literally turning back the clock to 5:30, Sinnamon tosses off her bathrobe and turns on the water. For a couple of seconds I stop and stare. Sure, I’ve seen that stunning body before, but only in videos. I start snapping photos as Sinnamon soaps up. After the shower replay, Sinnamon pulls on a tight T-shirt emblazoned with the words “SAVE DARFUR.” Talk about drawing attention to a cause. “I’m a big supporter of the Save Darfur movement,” Sinnamon elaborates. “What’s going on in Sudan right now is the same thing as the massacre in Rwanda in the ’90s, but nobody wants to acknowledge that it’s genocide. Meanwhile, thousands of people are dying.” Along with everything else Sinnamon does, she uses the Internet as a forum to express her views on politics and sex. “Right now I’m writing a column for HipHopDX.com called ‘Sex, Love and Hip-Hop,’ she says. “I interview artists about sex, art and porn.” Without missing a beat, she applies toenail polish to a pair of flawless feet. “Guys have been begging me to do a footjob,” Sinnamon explains. “So I have to keep the feet perfect. I also have to exercise them more so I can curl them right without getting sore.

True fetishists love the crinkles. That’s very important to them.” By early afternoon, Sinnamon has usually converted her bedroom into a set and has a male member in one or more of her bodily orifices. “Basically, I go from mommy mode to makeup mode to production mode to porn mode—then back again,” Sinnamon says. “That’s a good day for me: do the laundry, clean the house, shoot some content—all before my daughter gets home.” After retrieving Duke, Sinnamon makes a couple of phone calls to slot in a shoot that afternoon. I hang around while a black guy and a cameraman invade the cozy domicile. The young stud confides to me that this is like a lifelong dream-come-true for him. He’s been a Sinnamon Love fan since he first started watching porn.

Two hours later the desired content is in the can, and Sinnamon has removed all trace of professional activity. Her daughter will be home soon, so I expect to be chased out any minute too. “I like to have dinner ready when my daughter gets home,” Sinnamon says, chopping onions. “We eat together, and then I check my e-mail, talk to my mom again and help my daughter do homework. By 9:30 I put her to bed. I’m usually in bed by 10:30, but I generally do some Webcam before I go to sleep.” Still marveling at her ability to juggle porn and parenting, I give Sinnamon a hug and thank her for the hospitality—and an unforgettable day. She banishes the porn world with a cheerful “Bye!” and heads back to the kitchen, already deep in “mommy mode.”

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Mark Johnson

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