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Keep your kids active doing something so they're involved in their community or school or whatever, versus the streets.' It's expensive, but I look at it as a long-term investment. 'And I like to read to her before she goes to bed,' Mena says.

So when Mena picks her daughter up from school, it's straight to an activity, then home to cook dinner, then help with homework. Her daughter's after-school schedule is filled with soccer, gymnastics, swimming, and sometimes dance. 'IвЂ™m grateful to these women for trusting me with a piece of their lives that, professionally, they prefer to keep secret,' Koeth said. She traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, to photograph Mena when she was seven months pregnant with her son. When Koeth met Mena at the adult-themed expo, she learned that the actress had a four-year-old daughter, Sophia, and a baby on the way. 'I wanted to know how they balanced motherhood with work, and how other mothers who didn't work in porn treated them at gatherings like PTA meetings.' 'I wanted to know how their worlds were different from the world I had grown up in, with strict Catholic parents,' she said. 'I was scared of this project for a while because I didn't know how I would find subjects or if these women would be open to sharing their stories,' she wrote. She came up with the idea for 'Porn Moms' four years ago, but it took some time before she pursued the project.

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Koeth explained on her website that her series got its start when she attended the Exxxotica Expo in Edison, New Jersey, in November 2017 and met Emily Mena, aВ 25-year-old adult film star and mom. Writer Laura Lee Huttenbach transcribed the interviews and wrote captions to accompany each of the women's photos as part of the project, revealing the women's career aspirations and their hopes for their children. 'В The photographer also conducted video interviews with the moms about their individual experiences. Mary Beth Koeth, 37, from Florida, traveled across the country to photograph these women at home with their children for her latest project, ' Porn Moms. Mothers who work in the adult film industry are the subjects of a photographer's powerful new series that explores the balance between motherhood and their work in pornography.