How an adult film star fell in love with Jesus, quit her career and became Catholic

(OSV News) — Bree Solstad, formerly a top inappropriate content creator, recently announced her conversion to Catholicism and her decision to walk away from her previous career.

OSV News interviewed Solstad — who now designs religious jewelry — to trace her journey, and to explore her thoughts on embracing the Catholic faith.

This Q&A has been edited for length and clarity.

OSV News: What can you share about your background prior to entering the adult entertainment industry?​

Solstad: I was born and raised in Alaska by a hardworking and loving single mother. … I was an only child and I never knew my father. I was a latchkey kid. … I was baptized as a Lutheran at 8 years old and was active in the church and the youth groups during my childhood.

Growing up I wanted to be a veterinarian. I was, and still am, interested in all kinds of plants and animals. … I never really had any plans for marriage or family as a young girl. I wonder if that is because of being raised in a single mother household and never knowing my father.

After leaving for college, I completely fell away from the faith into a lifestyle of drunkenness, recklessness and promiscuity. Despite all this, I guess I still considered myself nominally Christian because of my childhood, but didn’t practice and had no faith life.

I dropped out of college, thanks largely to my heavy drinking and self-destructive behavior, and moved across the country. I became more and more promiscuous within my own private life. I was drinking more heavily and started a blog about my hedonistic behavior that kind of took off in that dark corner of the internet.

OSV News: Was that your entrance into the world of inappropriate content?​

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Cosmic Charlie said:

Am I the only one whose internal narrator voice changes into a robotic monotone when I read the <inappropriate content> mask for "inappropriate content"

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Lol! Absolutely not. It drives me bonkers.