Profile from AVN's June 2013 "Fresh" issue:

A little reserved, and a lot girl-down-your-street, Lilly Banks is one of those XXX greenhorns who make you do a double-take and exclaim, “Her?! Porn??! Get outta here…”

But the Michigan native wasn’t quite as innocent as she appears before finding her way to Porn Valley, having stripped back home for about a year prior to giving dirty videos a shot. Nevertheless, she maintains that she’s no wild child.

“I am pretty normal, actually, always have been,” Lilly asserts. “I’ve always been the good girl and was the one with no cool stories to tell. I was sick of being the innocent one and just doing what kept others happy. I wanted to live for myself, so I decided not to hold myself back anymore and do what I wanted to do.”

Not that she had no reservations about getting into the business, but she soon found that she liked it much more than she ever would have thought.

“I was terrified of porn,” Lilly admits. “I heard all the crazy stories and thought nothing but the worst of porn. Now I love it and feel so safe in it. There’s actually a lot of good people in porn, everyone’s pretty professional for the most part. It’s completely different than I thought it’d be, but in a good way.”

Eventually, Lilly—an avid animal lover—hopes to put her degree in veterinary technology to use. But in the meantime, she’s more than happy to go on practicing animal love of another sort.