From her website:

I am Belladonna. On May 21st, 1981, I was born in a military hospital on Keesler airforce base in Biloxi Mississippi. Being a military brat, I lived the first part of my life moving from place to place, such as, Germany, Idaho, Delaware, Central California and finally settling down in Northern Utah. I was raised Mormon at birth and eventually lost interest in religion around 12 years old. I moved out of my home at 15 and spent the next three years doing random teenage things.

When I turned 18, I immediately started stripping at bachelor parties throughout Utah. Not too long after, I become a house dancer at a club called American Bush. About six months into stripping, a girlfriend of mine called from Los Angeles and asked if I was interested in doing some nude magazine layouts. I was immediately interested and flew out the to L.A. the next day. When I met with the agent, I told him I only wanted to do girl/girl or solo work. He told me that I wouldn't get very much work because of my tattoos, so my only option was to start out doing boy/girl video and stills. The first adult job I ever did was a porn for Bill Whitrock called Real Sex Magazine #31. It was an anal scene with Chris Cannon. It was also the first time in my life that I'd ever had anal sex.

In 2001, I was chosen by the ABC network because of my personality for a story they wanted to do on a new girl getting into the adult industry. It was for Prime Time with Diane Sawyer. The camera crew followed me around for two years capturing hundreds of hours of footage. They got the good, the bad and the ugly. Everyone, even my own mother, kept telling me that they had ulterior motives with my story. I didn't believe them. Why would anyone want to portray me in a negative way? I was very naïve early on in my career. I went into the studio for my first and only interview with Diane. Inside myself, I was in a bad place at that time. I ended up breaking down and crying, basically looking like a victim of the "evil porn industry" and the hundreds of hours of footage they had of me was cut down to about an hour of just the bad stuff. Regardless of the story being twisted for ratings, it got me a LOT of publicity that I may have never received had it not happened.

In 2003, Belladonna Entertainment was created. I started out by myself and made my first production called Belladonna's Evil Pink. I was Evil Angel's first female director. I only made one movie my first year because I was so overwhelmed doing everything on my own. A year went by and I started on my second movie, Belladonna: The ConnASSeur. During the production of this movie, I had met my future business partner and husband, Aiden, while he was running the internet department at Evil Angel. Starting at Belladonna's Fucking Girls and going forward, Aiden has been a major part of the production in my movies. He is my one and only cameraman, webmaster, graphic designer, editor, publicist, manager and basically my soul mate. I don't know where I would be today without him.

Over the next several years, I focused primarily on my career as an adult entertainer. I have created close to 50 adult DVDs and one of the most successful "female performer" websites to date. I've appeared at numerous adult shops around the world, strip clubs and adult conventions. I've taken advantage of the internet to connect on an intimate level with all of my fans using my website, online forum, radio show and many of the community sites like MySpace and Twitter. I took this time to get much more confident in directing, shooting camera, editing and just, overall, being a business owner and operator.

In 2009, I partnered up with Doc Johnson to release my own line of sex toys, including dildos, vibrators, fists, feet, pussy and ass, a blowup doll, bondage kit and many more on the way. Also in 2009, I starred in four of the seven PG Porn episodes by acclaimed Hollywood writer/director James Gunn. I was featured in an Apple iPod app commercial for Lit'l Apps called "Bad Bad Monkey" alongside Sammie Rhodes, directed by Nir Bashan. In January 2010, I collaborated with Espionage Films on a mainstream independent film currently titled Project 194F.

Nobody really knows what the future will hold, but I do have a lot of fun doing what I do for a living and I plan on continuing my success in adult as well as experimenting outside of adult with acting, singing and anything else that comes my way.

Editorial addendum: Belladonna was inducted in 2011 into the AVN Hall of Fame. Find more of her at www.enterbelladonna.com and twitter.com/belladonnaent.