Asia Carrera (born Jessica Steinhauser on August 6, 1973) is an American former pornographic actress.

Biography

Carrera is an atheist. In November 2014, she wore a colander on her head for her Utah driver's license photograph in honor of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

In September 1995, Carrera married adult film director Bud Lee. They divorced in 2003, but remain good friends. Carrera dated a former grip from her porn sets for a few years until his visa expired and he returned to England. She married nutritionist and author Don Lemmon on December 19, 2003. The couple moved to St. George, Utah, where Carrera gave birth to her first child, daughter Catalina, on March 4, 2005. Lemmon was killed in a car accident near Las Vegas on June 10, 2006. At the time, Carrera was almost eight months pregnant with their second child, son Devin. Concerned about her livelihood and worries of not being able to support her two children on her own, Carrera began to solicit donations on her personal web site. Eventually, Carrera got a message from an insurance company that a life insurance policy she had forgotten about did exist for her husband, and she was granted it after mandatory investigation.

On May 13, 2007, she announced on her website that she had filed a request to legally change her son's name from Donald Edward Lemmon III to Devin D'Artagnan Lemmon, in honor of Devin DeVasquez, the woman who had introduced Carrera to Lemmon. "Devin D'Artagnan Lemmon" had been what Carrera and Lemmon had originally planned to name their son, but after Lemmon's death, Carrera named the boy after his father, a decision she regretted soon after. She explained that "He's not Don, he never will be Don, and it made me want to start crying every time a random stranger would say, 'Oh he's so cute, what's his name?'" The state made an error in changing the boy's name, however, and he is legally named "Devin D'Artagnan Lemmon III."

On April 14, 2010, Carrera confessed on her blog that she became an alcoholic after Lemmon's death, that she had joined Alcoholics Anonymous, and was in her third week of sobriety. She emphasized that she still did not believe in God, and that it is "actually not mandatory for joining AA." Carrera later gave birth to a boy she named Niko. On September 21, 2012, she wrote on her Facebook page that she gave him up for adoption. On March 5, 2015, Carrera was charged with "driving under the influence with a child," since her daughter was in the car with her, lodged at the Purgatory Correctional Facility and released on bail.

She identified investor Warren Buffett as her hero on her website, which Buffett was pleased to learn.