One look at this legendary adult film star and you’d instantly recognize iconic Penthouse Pet for December 1987 — and our Pet of the Year Runner Up 1990 — one of the few actresses known in the industry by her first name alone, Janine.

Janine Lindemulder — Pet Confidential

Janine Signature and Lip PrintUnlike most adult performers, Janine crossed over into adult films from a mainstream acting career in the late 80s, early 90s, after she starred in the cult classics, Caged Heat and Spring Break USA. Janine may have garnered the most mainstream fame, though, famously being known as the hot nurse wearing latex gloves holding a needle on the Blink 182 cover for the “Enema of the State” (and in their video, What’s My Name Again?).

In adult movies, Janine commercialized the “come back” with unequal par. Each time she left the industry, she’d return reinvented by re-branding herself. Helping to popularize an adult entertainment genre, Janine was the poster child for “girl-girl” porn when she was a Vivid Entertainment contract star, and as one half of the famous feature-dancing duo, Blondage (along with fellow fair-haired performer Julia Ann). Janine also helped pioneer the Alt Porn category, carving out a niche for herself as a prominently inked actress.

These days Janine has been enjoying life exploring the country in her 1959 Shasta travel trailer, which took her over two months refurbish. I caught up with and spent the day shooting her at Dockweiler Beach RV Park in Los Angeles. She confessed to me, “I haven’t had anyone photograph me this tattooed.” Well, on behalf of men everywhere may I thank you for the honor, Janine!

Of course the focus of this series has been to reveal the 25 things that will be new to even big fans, so naturally Janine provided that list as well.

The Super-Secret Janine Lindemulder

  1. I will always bleed Dodger Blue. When I was 10 years old I got to meet Steve Yager. I was forever in love. LOL
  2. My first job I was fifteen and a half and reluctantly my dad agreed to let me start working at Taco Bell. I LOVED IT! But I soon got fired when I refused to wear a hair net.
  3. Turn-offs – Men who don’t eat their vegetables. Straight up Pussies!
  4. Turn-ons – Men who take matters into their own hands. Get shit done. T.C.B.
  5. The only song I sing in its entirety is “Trouble” by the one and only Elvis Presley.
  6. I love the smell of fresh tar. Brings me back to being a kid on a hot summer day playing kickball on my street.
  7. What can a man do to capture my attention? Be sweet, humble but secure, and funny. Leave the “tough guy “at the door.
  8. My favorite arcade games are Pong, Pac-Man, and air hockey. I challenge any man to a game of air hockey! You WILL get your ass handed to you.
  9. I’m allergic to cats but I owe my cat Fiddle my life. So I will happily take medication to have her with me.
  10. I was conceived in Hawaii while my dad was stationed there. I choose to believe it was on February 14th 1968, since I was born exactly 9 months later.
  11. My favorite romantic gesture is being served breakfast in bed.
  12. I’m a huge Gene Wilder, and John Candy fan.
  13. My favorite quote is, “I’m a lover not a fighter, but I’ll fight for what I love.”
  14. I have a three-year-old cat named Fiddle, named after the Charlie Daniels band, and a seven-year-old bearded dragon that I love as my own, his name is Blaze.
  15. My first car was a 1975 mustang. I got it for thousand bucks!
  16. I love preparing Thanksgiving with family all around. It’s my favorite meal to cook.
  17. My sign is Scorpio. Pretty much spot on…
  18. If I had to pick just one favorite snack it would have to be my Olive Pit brand spicy pickled green beans. I buy them by the case.
  19. I’m an “afternoon delight” kind of lover. It’s my preferred time of the day to have sex.
  20. People always ask me what it was like on set with Blink 182; all I can say is that they are bunch of good boys who were very respectful, with wonderful manners.
  21. Joshua Tree National Forest has to be one of my favorite places to visit thus far. Something very surreal about that place, almost like a different world. But as I write this sitting here on the coast of Oregon, I realize I now can’t decide.
  22. How far would I go to protect animals? I’d gladly go back to prison to protect animals.
  23. Seka was my inspiration prior to getting into the adult movie making biz.
  24. My favorite sex toy is my plug in vibrator I’ve had since I was 18.
  25. My two favorite rainy day hobbies are crocheting while listening to 70’s music blasting through my headphones, and painting.
  26. My tattoos … I surprised myself one day as a realized I have many pieces that reference the Bible. On my knuckles is W.W.J.D. Which I refer to quite a bit.
  27. I live in the woods on the coast of Oregon but love to travel with my animals in my ’59 Shasta.

Despite the wide diversity in the industry, Janine has always had a unique flair. As you can see, she also always gives people just a little bit more than they ask of her. She does move around a lot, obviously, so perhaps Link Tree might be the best way to keep up with her these days.

Sadly, due to time constraints on this end, we were unable to track Janine down ourselves in order to fill in our traditional “what’s up lately?” conclusion to these features. That said, we do have a person consulting here “even older than Janine” in industry terms, as he puts it. In our conversations about this article, he shared a favorite Janine Lindemulder story that we got permission to reprint here.

Back in the late 90s, the industry was a very different place. Contract performers ruled the popularity roost, and odd as it may sound, those women could often go entire careers without really meeting the others, as by definition they all worked exclusively for different companies. Well, a high-end art photographer wandered through the AVN Vegas convention one year, and he decided he wanted to shoot the top three women in the business at the time — all at once. Well, contracts did not generally cover photo shoots back then, so early one morning we ended up with Janine from Vivid, Jenna Jameson from Wicked, and Juli Ashton from VCA, all in the same room. After havin been there for maybe half an hour, with everyone acting like we were in a library, trying not to make a commotion or anything, Janine spun her head around in her makeup chair and said quite loudly, “This fuckin’ rocks!” … Well, that did it. Everyone laughed and relaxed, and for the next five or six hours we got to watch some of the most uninhibited fun those three women had been allowed to have in public for a very long time. And Janine made that all happen. She was joyous.A. Nonymous

Anyone that knows much about Janine at all knows that she has been thtough some tough times in life. Not everything has been peaches and cream in her world, certainly. Kind people will sometimes end up on the wrong end of the happiness stick for a bit, but they do tend to flip things around eventually. We sure hope that happens for her, as nobody deserves it more.

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