In
the beginning..........
I was born down under in Australia, Melbourne, on the 7 August
1972. To an Australian mother and a Swedish/Finish father. my
father, who at a young age, in search of adventure, left Scandinavia
for Australia, where he became a crocodile hunter!! Yes, my
father was the original "crocodile hunter"... However,
by the time I came along my father was a church minister!! Talk
about career change! My father met my mother through the church
he belonged to in Melbourne. I grew up in a very Religious home,
as you can imagine. But I am thankful for it in many ways. It
gave me a great sence of the difference between right and wrong.
My mother is a very strong woman, I get my confidence from her.
As a kid I had the good and bad fortune to live in different
countries. Good, as in that I had the chance at a very young
age to meet people from different back grounds. This really
helped shape who I am today. Bad, as in it is never easy as
a kid being uprooted from your school and friends to a new country
with a new language and starting from the beginning each time.
Here is a short acount of my moving around as a kid; at 7 left
Australia for Sweden, 10 off to Finland, at 12 back to Australia,
and at 14 back to Sweden again...
I
grew up as the younger of 2 brotheres, untill age 15 when
my parents had yet another boy! I was such a tiny kid, at
15 I was 5 foot tall(150cm), and weighed in at just over 80lbs.
(37kg)... At about this age is when I started to get into
ice skating. We were back in Sweden again, and it was something
I had spent a year doing when I was 9. I had missed it and
wanted to start up again. I was lucky to have the opportunity
to train for a very good russian coach who had just started
working in my club. At this time in my life, skating started
to take up all my time. It was going well. I won the Swedish
junior championships at age 18.
At
17, I finally start coming into puberty and shooting up in
hight, years after all my peers. Some how though, it never
effected me very much, my skating was fueling my confidence.
School was left a bit on the back burner at this time, I was
doing preparitory studies for architecture. But all I could
concentrate on was my skating. It was around this age I started
to realize that I might be gay. It took a few years for me
to come to an acceptance of who I was. Especailly growing
up in a very Religious home. My family is also a very athletic
one. My mother was a sprinter in her youth. My father lifts
weight, still to this day, My older brother has been bodybuilding
since he was 18, and my younger brother at the age of 17 is
now getting into triathlon! I was spending alot of time training
at the Swedish sports institute in Stockholm from 18 and on.
Where I got to work with some of the best strength and fitness
experts in Sweden, developing my traing program.
At
age 22 my life took a big change. My family had decided to
move back to Oz once again, but without me this time. Sweden
now was definately my home. However, right before my familly
left, I had a knee injury. Resulting in the end of my competitive
career. I could still skate, but hours of training every day
and tripple jumps, were out of the qustion. I didn't know
at this time, if my knee was going to get better, or if it
was the end of my skating for good. Well, my family leaving,
was my coming out to myself, and experiencing my first sex,
gay or other wise.... It was a very exciting time for me.
This is also when I finally picked up the weights to develop
muscles, other than for skating,I started to eat more and
the first few months saw dramatic results, this was the beginning
of my changed body image. And then.......
Almost
out of the blue, I got a phone call from the US offering me
a job as a skater with Disney on Ice!! 4 weeks later I found
myself in Mexico city on my first tour. I remember arriving
and being called the big sweede!! Me big!! what a change!!
But they had never seen me before. That was a big adjustment
for me! During the next 6 years I had the opportunity to travel
the world doing what I loved to do the most... no not sex!
Skate!! And get payed for it!! It was an amazing time in my
life, probably the best, so far.... I arrived at my first
show and could for the first time in my life be honest to
everybody and myself about who I was!! I have so many great
memories and friendships from this time in my life. It was
amazing to just be coming out, and traveling to all these
amazing cities.. All those hot men!! It was quite overwealming
for me!!
My
first 2 years show skating I was just one of the corus boys.
But I learned alot about performing during this time, and
within a year of coming back from another knee injury( which
I sustained during my second year, in Japan, disslocating
and fracturing the knee cap), I was offered my first principal
staring role! What a great feeling that was! I continued for
another 4 years skating in staring roles until finally leaving
the show at age 29 back in Mexico city were I had started.
This
was one of the darker chapters in my life, the decision to
leave my skatig in Mexico to persue a modeling career, in
Mexico city, did not end up as I had inteded. Somebody I had
put all my trust in seriously let me down, unfortunately it
ended up beeing a very costly misstake for me. My modeling
agency brought me in very little work, but I had decided to
try and stick it out for a year to learn spanish. I lasted
6 month..... However a few good things came out my stay here.
I got the oportunity to work as an aerial acrobat, with a
troup of gymnasts,and a great coreographer. Performing at
nightclubs and special events, working on the "silk".
It was great to take the "web act" that I had learned
a year earlier, for the role of Tarzan in the ice show, a
step further. I also grew up in the sence that I learned that
not all people in this world are good, I had just never experienced
someone taking advantage of me before! I guess I had lived
quite a protected life. Always surounded by good people. It
was a hard leason.....but also an important one!
Escaping
back to Australia before my 30th birthday, and licking my
wounds, it took me a few months to regroup, and try and figure
out which way my life was heading. Porn, was something I had
thought about persueing for many years, but it was never the
right time, that was, until now!!! While down under with my
parents I started getting back into my skating and was teaching
skating at the local skating rink. It was great to be working
with kids!!
So
this is when I got myself in contact with the porn industry,
through good friend, fellow Aussie pornstar Joe Foster, he
put me in contact with John Ruthford the then head of Falcon.
With all the good things I had heard about John form Joe,
I knew that this was the person I wanted to be working with!
And I knew that my look would fit in great at Falcon! They
were coming to shoot a movie in Sydney during the gay games,
and I was going to be there competing, in the skating of course!
My first competition in 7 years!!! The timing was perfect,
things in my life have always had a way of falling into place
at exacctly the right time! I came up to Sydney, where I met
the wonderful Chi-Chi LA Rue who directed me in my first scene!
It went great!! some things in your life you just know that
you are ment to do!! A few days later I signed an exclusive
contract with Falcon! Oh yes, and I won 2 gold medels at the
gay games, it made for quite an awesome week!!
After
finally feeling that my life was getting back on track, after
the dissaster which was Mexico for me. I had the chance to
move to Amsterdam, once again my timing was perfect! A friend
was opening a night club there and offered me to come and
work as a bartnder. It was all the excuse I needed to leave
Australia. I was really missing Europe, and I was having a
hard time living the life I had become used to around my religous
family. I needed my freedom, to be me!!
I
have been in Amsterdam for just about 3 years now. During
this time I have gone through 2 great years as a Falcon exclusive.
But recently decided that it was time for me to go it on my
own. Which is now giving me the oportunity to work with other
great, companies, directors, and models. Most recently with
John Ruthford who is now the head of Colt! After living like
a gipsy for so many years, it feels wonderful to be settled
here in Amsterdam, and have a "normal" life. It
has even seen me have my first real relationship! As I fell
in love for the first time.....
I
feel there is so much more for me to say, but I will just
have to leave that for the book...lol I have been very fortunate
to have already lived at least 2 full lives, and still ready
for more!
The
future..... well, I am involved in some great film productions
coming soon, During the next year I will be concentrating
on training for the Out Games in Montreal next summer (July
06). And the future after that??? Well, who knows, I have
many times made plans of were I wanted my life to go, and
surprised myself even more times at the directions it has
taken. I have learned to always take the chances and opportunities
that life gives you! I would never have though at age 18 that
I would have done everything that I have, and be where I am
today! So I never let my plans rule me, just let life take
me were it takes me, but with a strong hand to steer.