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Nikki Tyler signed exclusively with Vivid Video after doing her first porno with Jenna Jameson in VR-69. Nikki is a popular print model appearing in mens magazines in single girl and girl-girl layouts about 100 times.

"She claims to have appeared in only one boy-girl layout, shot by Suze Randall. Before she went from being a print model to porn starlet, Nikki worked full-time for Vivid Video as a makeup artist... The lure of easy money and exhibitionist sex proved more than she could handle... Nikki got the bug eating out her roommate Jenna Jameson and found she wanted to go one step further and work with men in adult videos. She likes anal sex." (AFW 96D p.166)

Back in 1992, "I moved out here to work on my Ph.D. in clinical psychology. I answered an ad looking for lingerie models. I had a dog that was sick and I needed money to fix my dog's leg. I answered the ad, was introduced to an agent and started doing magazine work while I was going to school. The money was good, and I didn't want to have a nine-to-five job while I was going to school. I had no clue that there was an entire industry set up behind this kind of modeling. I did a lot of R-rated type work and I thought I'd never do any X-rated stuff... I got to the point where I hated what I was doing and I thought I'd do makeup. I went to makeup school... I filled in for someone on a porn shoot. It was fun, so I kept doing that for the next year and a half. I had stopped doing magazine work because I had been overexposed. A lot of girls I worked with kept telling me that I should feature as a dancer because I had done so many mens magazines. I love to perform and be in front of the camera. I looked into dancing and found that I wouldn't make that much more money than doing makeup. After a while, I thought that the girls doing the movies were having fun and eventually, I decided to do movies with just girls. I approached Vivid Video and gave them some photos of myself. They offered me a boxcover and it came down to me agreeing to do guys for a contract. They agreed to my price and I started working.

"My husband and I both felt comfortable because we'd worked many porn sets. Still I was nervous on my first movie Street Legal but I was more nervous because of the crew and al the guys knew me as a makeup artist. One guy didn't want to hold the close-up light because he felt like I was his sister.

"My acting sucked in my first movies.

"I look to people like Christy Canyon and Ashlyn Gere as role models. I try to be nice. I've worked with so many girls and I've seen how the crew reacts to them. That attitude has a lot to do with the final product. I'm a people-pleaser. I always have to remember what my goals are whenever I'm asked to do anything.

"I do one movie a month. That allows me to focus on each project."

Nikki says she sometimes has sex with guys who come to her strips. "I do this one construction worker routine and I play that song "She Loves My Cock" by Jackal. I have on my overalls and my sunglasses and these guys see me all covered up and they wonder "Is she fat under there?"... I start taking off the hat and the sunglasses and I flash the light in their eyes. I like to get people involved in my show. When they leave, I want them to feel the same way they feel after they've just seen a great movie. I want them to talk about the show on the way home because they've had such a good time."

Nikki went to many strip shows before she began taking off her clothes on stage. "I noticed that a lot of girls doing movies and dancing didn't seem like they wanted to be there. I feel sorry for the fans." (AVN)

The Vivid contract girl lives with Bobby Vitale whose ex gave birth in 1996 to a baby boy.

Brad Armstrong and Greg Steele co-directed Nikki's Illicit Entry. "A pair of poontang pileups are the highlights in this Nikki Tyler vehicle about a prison parolee (Tyler) who quickly finds herself on the wrong side of the law. She also finds herself on her backside, getting her pusy tongue-lashed by Jill Kelly and Missy, then later riding Kia's big black strap-on while holding on for dear life to a double-dong shoved into Kelly's and Coxx's gaping cunts." (AVN 97)

Nikki Tyler's first Vivid releases are Threesome, Plaything 1&2, Bedlam and American Pie.

Vivid fired her in 1996 when she gained weight.