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Ladies and Gents: Your Daily WTH: How Tiffany Shepherd, teacher, became Leah Lust, porn star

Tiffany Shepherd sent out 2,500 resumes, said Palm Beach, Fla., Post columnist Jose Lambiet in Page 2 Live, but nobody seemed interested in hiring a former high-school teacher who was fired last year after photos surfaced of her moonlighting, wearing a skimpy bikini, on a fishing charter boat. So the unemployed 31-year-old biology teacher transformed herself into Leah Lust, porn star, and started performing in videos like My First Sex Teacher.


It doesn't sound like Tiffany Shepherd is happy about her "new career" as the star of Leah Lust videos, said Eitan Gavish in the New York Daily News. "I'm not particularly proud of it. To be honest, I hate it," she told Page 2 Live. Apparently it was a charter boat captain—who happened to own a porn Web-cam business, too—who convinced her she'd never get her old job at Port St. Lucie High School back, so she needed to cash in on her beauty while she could.

Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy, said Tim Worstall in Examiner.com. Tiffany Shepherd will never get her old job back now. "The tragedy here is that the reaction to Tiffany Shepherd doing something almost entirely innocent, fishing in a bikini, has led to her being forced (by her account) into hard core porn and Leah Lust videos."