About Mimi Miyagi
- Height: 5 ft. 3 in.
- Weight: 115
- Measurements: 36D - 22" - 32"
- Eyes: Brown Eyes
- From: Davao, Philippines
- Born: July 3
- Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Hmm. You're probably wondering why I chose to be a pornstar? After working 3 fulltime jobs in Guam. Saving up every penny earned with my minimum wage salary. I was finally able to accept the college scholarship I attained at a fashion school in Los Angeles, California. Ha ha, I thought back then that the $1,000.00 I had saved up was enough to live on in California, NOT! So, I applied at 21 different places to find a job to support myself through school. With no luck, the answer was always, I was too young or not experienced enough. So this led to desparation. I picked up the LA Weekly and found an advertisement placed by Ed Powers for "Partial Nude Modeling". After 2 weeks of working for Ed Powers on different softporn tease videos, I realized how really desparate I was! This was the first introduction to my porno scene. Yes it was with the famous "Dirty Debutantes" King himself, Ed Powers. Needless to say, I kept getting sidetracked with making movies and traveling doing personal appearances. Hey, I needed to do something because you can get sick of going on dates just to eat? Also on friends couches, because I couldn't afford my own apartment was really getting old, not only to me but to my friends too. 200 porno's later... I decide to move on... Businesswomen
I programmed this site because I got ripped off by my ex-webmaster & administrator guys. Hmm? So after paying over $5,000.00 to them in April '97 I got deleted from cyberspace because I found out that the money I gave "Mr. Admin", was pocketed and my server fees (rental of computer space) never were paid. Then I found out that the webmaster registered mimimiyagi.com to himself, huh? A geek guy all of a sudden is Mimi Miyagi? Well, after he gets threats of lawsuits and 2 months of battling with him to give me back my name I came to create the "REAL" mimimiyagi.com. How I learned HTML. (Hypertext markup language, computer programming language used to created web pages.) After crying my eyes out with the loads of email from customers complaining what happened to the site. I decided to go to Barnes and Noble and buy books about the internet and how to program. After 3 days of absolutely no 2 jars of coffee and a box of sugar and 5 packs of cigarettes, and much prayer. I made my first webpage. From then on it was snowballing in. The pages I created I couldn't believe with my own eyes that a little pornstar girl like me did all this? Goes to show you, that anything you set your mind to anything is possible! " If I can do it, you can too!" With God all things are possible. Then I didn't know where I was gonna put my site at. Since I wasn't familiar with hosting stuff or uploading. I surfed the net and found allasians.com I emailed the owner asking for advise on where I can rent space to put my site and if it was expensive. Hooray! He offered me sponsorship and he would even help me make the proper router changes so mimimiyagi.com would work. 7 days later it was online! I forever gratefully thank my sponsor www.allasians.com. Now I knew what my destiny was and what I was put here on earth to do. Then in January 1998 I started going to college and taking up UNIX. Thank God for that class! Because now I can even configure Perl, Perl 5, and C programs and totally customize any kind of program thrown over my way. 1000's of pages and dozens of websites I feel finally that I am a normal person. Being stuck in that "Selling my body" only faze, really got to me, and after 3 years of addiction and several suicide attempts, I realize that I just have to be me and not live up to everyone's expectations anymore, and that looks are not everything. It's doing what you really love in life that will make you happy. So everything you see on my site, is from my heart and I made myself learn and do all the programming myself. This has been the funnest and more therapeutic career I have found. Wheew! * DO NOT attempt to call me a "Nerd or Geek". Those are derogatory words, and I find them seriously offensive! "Yikes! I'm CEO of a corporation and even own subsidiaries now..." Owning this website has helped me accomplish all my dreams! Many of my pornstar peers have asked me how it feels to be the ONLY Pornstar gone entreprenuer who has made a career out of owning my website that has employees and an office, managing websites and totally taking control of all my image production? My goal is to only help encourage others that they too can accomplish anything they set their minds to. So far many fans have been so kind in all your efforts of those kind emails. Especially Dan Fielden of http://scan-a-holics.com , he guided me through all the software to help get me on the net. THANKYOU so much!!!! Motherhood
December 8, 1998 2:09 am My baby has arrived! I was very lucky to have a short 5 hour labor and a short 30 minutes of pushing for her to pop right out! This baby has lucky stars all around. It actually snowed here in Las Vegas just 2 days before she was born. My contractions started hitting me at 8:42 pm and as me, my mom, my husband Gino were getting in the truck to go to the hospital, my water broke, and heavy contractions were hitting every 1-2 minutes. All that walking did me some good while I was pregnant. It was the worse pain to endure I can definately say, until the epidural came. Then I was sitting up laughing and talking the next 3 hours with no pain, wheew! Just slight pressure feelings in my bladder was all. I was dialating 2 centimeters every hour and by the time I reached the final 1 centimeters to start pushing I was relieved and was especially lucky that I didn't have to get cut due to dialiating 1 centimeter every week the past 3 weeks. I didn't even tear! So I didn't have to get any stitches. The nurse said "in 27 years I have been working in labor and delivery, you are the very first to have 5 hours of labor with NO stitches or cutting. I was up and out of bed that night and the next day walking around the hospital, all the nurses were shocked at how I recovered so quickly. I even had a bad cold and fever the night before. But the next day I was like brand new! My life has changed and I'm so lucky to have a wonderful husband who was at my side to help remind me of those lamaze breathing techniques. He is so involved with taking care of the baby, I am just blessed. All I can say is I thank God for giving me the biggest joy ever, and knowing I have a loving husband and a healthy new baby we both can love forever. She has brought me to a realization of what life is really all about now. How life is so extremely important and no amount of money in the world can buy a love of life!
Interviews
Interview with Mimi Miyagi - November 8, 2000
Phone Interview
Pornstarempire.com: How did you start doing adult films?
Mimi: I answered an ad in the newspaper for partial nude modeling
because I had applied at 22 places in California nine years ago and I
couldn't find a job, even as a hostess or a maid...the recession was so
bad back then.
Q: In LA?
Mimi: Yeah.
Q: In the Valley, or over the hill?
Mimi: I was over the hill, taking the bus to design school....
Q: How long did it take you to go from magazines to
movies?
Mimi: I actually started with movies and then went to magazines. It was
backwards.
Q: The ad for the partial nudity - that wasn't for
print?
Mimi: No. I thought it was for print...They had a little 8mm camera in
someone's house...I was like... "What have I gotten myself into, I hope
this guy isn't crazy to me".... And Powers was a really well-known name,
but I didn't know that, I was only eighteen - I didn't know anything
about porn. I didn't even watch it.
Q: What's your favorite part of sex onscreen?
Mimi: Probably doing a ménage a trois - a girl and a guy.
Q: Why?
Mimi: Because you have different variations and different transitions
that you can give to the company - they have more [footage] to edit. It
comes out nicer...there's a lot going on.
Q: Does having sex onscreen ever feel like an intimate
experience?
Mimi: I don't feel [it's] intimate. Some girls said that they feel
[it's] intimate?
Q: No, they all say no. Wait, maybe Dyanna Lauren said
yes....
They all say it feels sexual, not intimate.
Do you prefer women? I know you're married. Have you stopped performing
with men?
Mimi: I stopped performing with men when I got married because I
believe that if you're gonna sign a paper...under God's roof, there's no
reason to be having sex with other men. Girl-girl stuff...in our
industry, we don't even consider that sex - two girls, playing around,
laughing, whatever.
Q: When were you married?
Mimi: Seven years ago.
Q: I know you have a 22 month-old daughter, what would
you tell her about what you do?
Mimi: That it's in [the] adult entertainment industry and it's a
well-respected business and that I don't burn any bridges with anybody
and there's no one that can say anything really bad about it. If she
wants to work behind the scenes in the future...I wouldn't push her
definitely into the adult...because I've seen that she has talent in
dancing and singing...
Q: But you wouldn't object to her doing what you do?
Mimi: No, not at all, because like Larry Flynt's daughter, Teresa, she
runs a bunch of stuff for him and Hugh Hefner's daughter, she runs the
whole show over there too.
Q: But even the onscreen stuff?
Mimi: Being onscreen - oh, you know what I would tell her? All the
negative things about it:...AIDS....diseases...people do like three
scenes, back-to-back, I mean, that's not safe...even with the condoms,
you never know - stuff happens. You can get illnesses from people just
by kissing them.... When I was eighteen, AIDS just started getting
noticed. It wasn't as popular as today, as far as everybody
knowing...what causes it...I did like three months of movies and then I
started seeing about it on TV and I started freaking out...that's when I
started requiring people to wear condoms and I had problems getting
work. On top of that, I already had problems getting work because I was
Asian.... Asians weren't considered marketable, so I couldn't get any
work unless I worked for like two or three hundred dollars [a scene]....
Q: When did this start to change?
Mimi: I felt it started to turn around when Vivid turned me down.... A
friend of mine...she was doing softcore kinds of things - Dominique
Simone,...she's black.... She said you've got to give a call to Leisure
Time entertainment (at that time they were called Video Exclusives).
...They were focusing on niche markets, and like if they sign a black
girl, I know they gotta be looking for an Asian girl.
Q: Has motherhood changed your perspective on the
adult industry?
Mimi: It's given me more drive and ambition.... I have to put food on
the table and make sure she has a college fund. And then she's gonna
turn eighteen and say, "Mom, I wanna do nails." Doesn't that always
happen?
Q: Tell us about your work as a publisher for "Oriental
Dolls" magazine. How did this start and what do you do?
Mimi: ...When I got contracted with Video Exclusives, they put me on 24
box covers. So they jump-started my career as a porn star. And I guess
the magazines started getting requests for my images.... They got so
many that they automatically shot three photo layouts...and then they
gave me the opportunity to be a columnist,..."Dear Mimi",...seven years
ago.
Q: Was the column advice?
Mimi: Uh-huh [laughs]. Advising people like if a guy has a sexual
problem, or couples.... Then they moved me up to publisher, I think it
was less than six months.
Q: What are your responsibilities?
Mimi: At first it was just a licensing of my name to their company. And
then...I started giving my input. I started looking through the magazine
and I came up with a pageant, "Doll of the Year", ...the readers get to
vote.... Cause the magazine was just pictures and text, it wasn't any
fan-related input...like they can win Mimi's panties.... We didn't even
have centerfolds before.
Q: Do you recruit talent?
Mimi: All the time. I recruit talent for the magazine and for the
[Metro Studios] "Fantasiany" series.
Q: In my psychology of gender class [at UCLA], we
studied a stereotype of Asian women in mainstream Hollywood they said
they were portrayed as sex objects that were ultimately cold or evil.
Mimi: Oh, no wonder! Cause I just did "Jenny Jones" yesterday, and the
character I played, once again, was a bad-ass. And everybody was like,
'Chun Li, Chun Li!" - she's like this video girl...she's a Japanese
anime girl. She's like the strongest one. I think it's Sony
PlayStation....
Q: Did you encounter the stereotype that I'm
describing, in pornography, and do you feel like it's changed?
Mimi: When I first started doing movies, I was always dressed up in
like these Geisha robes, and they had these like big old things on my
head that were like buns, with chopsticks, right, and the they'd paint
my face white, or I have to say stupid stuff like, "Me so horny - me
love you long time"; "Me fuckie, fuckie-suckie" and I did it because I
needed money for school, I mean you gotta do what you gotts do, to
survive right.... So I did all the "fuckie-suckie",
"suckie-fuckie"...and I just got tired of it, after a while...I actually
quit school, I couldn't do it anymore...it was totally screwing with my
head...
Q: How has the role of Asian women expanded in porn and
do you see yourself as instrumental in this development?
Mimi: When I first started with Video Exclusives, I said, "None of
this...Asian stereotype - no 'fuckie-fuckie', 'suckie-suckie', let me be
me, let me be natural." And they totally gave me complete control
because they're a Gonzo type series and they totally came out natural,
and I was happy and always laughing.... My natural character came
out....
Q: Explain to me what Gonzo is.
Mimi: Gonzo is movies like the "Fantasiany" series...there's no script.
Like for my particular series, I actually interview the girls...cause
with Asian women, guys want to know more, like what's her
ethnicity...where she's from...where she was born, just cause people are
so...interested in the mysterious ways of Asian women or something. So I
decided to just throw in the interviews, before she does her scene.
Q: So things have really changed for Asian women in
porn in the last decade?
Mimi: I think so. I've been looking through shelves and I see box
covers and they're not wearing robes and chopsticks in their hair
anymore.... It was so bad.... For my series, since I'm the producer, I
don't have any of that. I might make like an Asian set, but I'm not
gonna dress them up like Geisha girls, wearing those little clog shoes,
"Oh, master - I'll do anything you want..."
Q: What's your favorite thing about touring as a
feature?
Mimi: ...Being onstage. I've been in gymnastics since I was six years
old. I started touring when I was nine till I was fourteen. Before I
could make it in the Junior Olympics, my whole gymnastics career had to
be taken away from me, because my mother's clinic went bankrupt.
Q: She was a doctor?
Mimi: Yes...and there were no jobs [after that]...to be able to afford
to feed five children.
Q: Where were you living?
Mimi: In Sylmar [CA], in a total trailer trash place...because we were
so broke when she was like starting her business, we didn't even have
real beds, my dad...[took] the foam from Home Depot, and just cut them
to the right size and that was our bed, in the kitchen.
Q: Even though your mom was a doctor?
Mimi: Yeah because she was starting her own business...it takes money
to make money and all the money went right back into the business. And
then when the recession hit bad, it folded and...we just have always
been poor.
Q: So did things eventually become financially normal
for them?
Mimi: No, they never did, because my mother is one of those people who
switched jobs every six or seven months...it costs money to move...
she's always thinking the grass is greener on the other side. And I keep
telling her.."Mom, you're a doctor by this time,...you should be living
in a four thousand square foot house like me!"...I'm 27 and we've gone
through lots of hard times...there were times [on the road] where I was
having a hard time getting feature bookings...they weren't paying for
travel, and we were like eating 30 cent hamburgers...I quit doing
movies, I featured from about 21 to about 23 and a half. And I said,
"You know what, I'm still stuck...I'm not getting anywhere in this
business, I'm still at 3 thousand a week,"...it was still like, "I can't
get a booking cause I'm Asian," or whatever - Asian just keeps holding
me back, in those early stages...so I got a computer...five years
ago...I started chatting with people online...and some fan suggested,
"Why don't you open up a website?" ...All the fans helped me put my
website together....
Q: What did you think you were going to do
professionally, originally?
Mimi: Fashion Merchandizing. It's very political. Christy Canyon and I
used to do our homework together on the set and look, she's back in the
business now too. ...If you don't know anybody in the fashion industry,
you don't get anywhere.
Q: The physical transformation that you've undergone
has been rather tremendous...tell us about your boobs...and what did you
have done to your teeth?
Mimi: ...Because we were so poor we could never afford braces, ...I
went and got my front teeth...crown bridges. What they do is, they
chisel it down to like a little toothpick, and they put crowns over
them, so they're perfectly straight.... It's the same price as getting
braces....
One of the clauses for Video Exclusives was that I had to have boobs. In
order for an Asian girl to break into mainstream adult porn, you had to
have some kind of similarities to the white chicks.
Q: ...So did they pay for it?
Mimi: Yes....
Q: What happened to them?
Mimi: ...A lot of scar tissue started forming around them...they were
saline implants...and one nipple started pointing up in a different
direction.... The scar tissue just clogged up my breast,...I also had
bad rippling...and with the silicone, that's less of a problem.
Q: I thought silicone implants were illegal.
Mimi: You have to sign a waiver that you're a part of the research
group.... It's not the old silicone that they had before, it's a new
kind. ...I'm a guinea pig.
Q: ...You also had something done to your face?
Mimi: I just got the fat bags removed, under my eyes, cause I'm
27...I'm a mom, I only three or four hours a day, I run a business
with employees, it's a constant battle, I'm like a warrior in business.
...Between interviews and personal appearances....
Q: Your website is a to be reckoned with, tell
us anything you want to about that work and the response.
Mimi: Our website right now is gearing toward video and live
broadcasting.... Our software's finally done for girls to be able to
work from home. We are focused towards porn stars and magazine models
and features...and we currently do weekly live photo shoots, every
Thursday... On November 29, is when we're going to open up the "Mimi
Network Originals" page.... It should have about 12 or 15
originals...nicely edited with sound - from photo shoots to video
shoots.
Q: You taught yourself all the HTML stuff?
Mimi: Well, initially, the fans helped me...but I didn't have a web
master...He said, "I'm going to charge you $5,000." ...[After two weeks]
he took down my site because he said my bandwidth was so high, I was
getting hit really hard...and he was like, "Well, you've gotta pay me
now an extra $2,000!" ...Then I learned from one of my fans...he was way
overcharging me.
Q: Tell us about "Fantasiany" [(Metro Studios)].
Mimi: It's a Gonzo series, and each scene in the video has an interview
of the girls so you can find out her ethnicity...we let them talk
naturally...I do a parody of Connie Chung sometimes...we mix it up.... I
just look different every time... and most of the girls are amateur
girls...one was a grocery store clerk...
Q: So you're like director, producer, actress?
Mimi: I just do the interviews.
Q: So you're not doing sex.
Mimi: No.
Q: Why did you ever feel desolate enough to
contemplate suicide?
Mimi: When I was 18 and 19, I couldn't deal with the reality of being a
porn star, ...everybody just kept turning me down because I was Asian.
...It messed with my mind. I was like, Damn, I'm not good enough...to be
in America...I don't wanna go home because back home, in the
Philippines, I remember we used to have to jump underneath our school
desks when the rebels came, and they would start shooting and then you
go outside, and you find dead bodies and you have to...pull them
aside...I felt there was no place for me, I thought I might as well just
die. ...I just got tired of seeing the dead bodies all the time and the
rebels coming in and putting guns to our faces...But I couldn't get
anywhere in this industry [in America], cause I was Asian.
Q: When did you move to the US?
Mimi: I was six.
Q: And the rebels in the Philippines, that was from a
civil war?
Mimi: ...They were rebelling because the President Aquino died, so his
wife took over, and it was just a big mess.
Q: What would you say is your best asset onscreen?
Mimi: I think it's my ass.
Q: Are you still going to perform in movies?
Mimi: Not movies, just produce and direct them. And since George Mavety
died of "Oriental Dolls" - he owned the publishing - he died of a heart
attack last month and so now I'm taking more control of "Oriental
Dolls"...and promoting "Fantasiany" into Oriental Dolls", it's all tied
together - "The Mimi Network", "Oriental Dolls", "Fantasiany"....
Q: What was your favorite shoot of your career?
Mimi: "Reflections" by Fat Dog Productions, cause it was based on my
life story, traveling on the road....
Q: Is there something not related to adult that you're
looking forward to doing with your life?
Mimi: Managing my little sister's music career. She's 24....
Q: What would surprise your fans or the general public
about you most?
Mimi: I rarely have sex anymore cause I'm so busy. It's just part of
being a mother and...[a] corporation with five subsidiaries, just takes
up a lot of time....
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