This feature appears in the April issue of AVN magazine.
LOS ANGELES—When former professional chef Hope Fontaine landed in Los Angeles from France, she was ready to taste another side of life—something juicy and delicious.
“I turned 30, I decided to live my life, my fantasy,” Fontaine told AVN. “I had so many fantasies in my head that I was not living. I was very sexually driven, you know, but not so much active because I was not always with the right person.”
Working in restaurants in France, some of them Michelin-starred, Fontaine was used to working in high pressure, male-dominated spaces. At home, she was also dominated by her partner at the time, who was so strict, he wouldn’t allow her to masturbate. She could not reveal the fantasies that were going on in her head.
But there was an incident and her partner passed away—Fontaine didn’t elaborate. In the aftermath, she decided to reinvent herself and the lure and locations of Los Angeles could provide a clean slate. The City of Angels, after all, is where fantasies are born.
“So, I just put myself out there,” Fontaine described. “I went on Fetlife and an app named Feeld—it’s like a dating app but for more open-minded people, so, there’s all the sexualities. You can meet with couples, and I just met someone. They introduced me to the lifestyle, to the swinger parties.”
“This is a community that I met and really discovered, and where I felt really comfortable because that helped me to get out of my shell,” the pretty brunette with a slight French accent explained. “I was very shy before, actually, and that really made me feel confident. We have desires, we have fantasy and we’re just living it. Instead of being restrained and cheating, we share.”
It was during one of her first swinging experiences that Fontaine discovered something else very important for a budding performer—she enjoyed being watched. The exhibitionist in her was revealed.
“I was quite shy at first,” she said, “but then, the first time I went, I played with my partner. I turned my head and there’s 20 people looking at us—and I was like, ‘Oh, okay, I think I like that.’ And then, little by little bit, I started going to more parties and having multiple partners, having gangbangs, and I just really, really liked it.”
Oo-la-la! Like the old saying goes, love what you do for work and you’ll never work a day in your life. So, when she was scouted on Fetlife for a photoshoot, she thought, pourquoi pas? The photo layout led to an introduction, which led to her first professional scene.
Now, for Fontaine, being on an adult set is like being invited to life’s grand buffet, with all the tasty treats you could imagine, that before she could only dream of tasting—now she can have a plateful.
With a handful of scenes to her credit since 2025, she’s appeared for Maestro Claudio at Perv City/DP Diva, Tad Pole at TadpoleXStudios and for JonathanJordanxxx.com. A debut scene for Evil Angel with Richard Mann is also on the list—her favorite so far. Fontaine’s style is hardcore and she’s already gaining a reputation for squirting and anal. More recent work includes a gig with Isiah Maxwell, work for BangBros and content for her own social media sites.
Fontaine, who is repped by OC Modeling, said she’d like to work with Hollywood Cash eventually. She’d like to travel back to Europe and experience the lifestyle and adult communities there for the first time. Right now, the adult world is her oyster and, if she ever returned to cooking, it might be for content—maybe an OnlyFans series where she cooks a meal with her collab partners and then they have each other for dessert, she mused.
Photography by Jeff Koga/@kogafoto
