

Briana was born in Munich to a German father and an Italian-American mother. They moved to Britain when she was four, then to Simi Valley when she was seven. Her father remained in Germany. At sixteen she left her mother’s house and took her fourteen-year-old sister with her. When she turned eighteen she secured legal custody of the girl. In her teens she modeled for magazines, even landing a cover of Teen. She worked odd jobs—making pizza, stocking shelves at an arts-and-crafts store, filing papers—before she answered a newspaper ad for nude modeling. The photographer offered her a porn scene. She started under the name Mirage, then adopted Briana Banks after her first breast enlargement, borrowing the last name from Tyra. She insists her legs, thirty-six inches from crotch to floor, are the longest in the business.

Briana was born in Munich to a German father and an Italian-American mother. They moved to Britain when she was four, then to Simi Valley when she was seven. Her father remained in Germany. At sixteen she left her mother’s house and took her fourteen-year-old sister with her. When she turned eighteen she secured legal custody of the girl. In her teens she modeled for magazines, even landing a cover of Teen. She worked odd jobs—making pizza, stocking shelves at an arts-and-crafts store, filing papers—before she answered a newspaper ad for nude modeling. The photographer offered her a porn scene. She started under the name Mirage, then adopted Briana Banks after her first breast enlargement, borrowing the last name from Tyra. She insists her legs, thirty-six inches from crotch to floor, are the longest in the business.