Pixie Belle

Pixie (born January 28, 1979) is a popular English glamour model and lesbian pornographic actress, though now retired. Born in Essex, she is half Cape Malay, with a look that has often been compared to Victoria Beckham and Bjork. With her short dark hair and petite frame, standing 5'1.5" (1.54 m) tall, she bucked the conventions of how glamour models should look. Her start came in 1998 when as a psychology student at Goldsmiths College, she replied to an advert placed in The Stage newspaper by photographer Paul Markham. She chose the pseudonym Nadia and has also been known as Nadia Star, Nadia Nicolas and Pixie. Her real name was disclosed - against her will - by Fiona Cooper when they released her video as Andrea. Other photographers she worked with early in her career include Terry Munns, Viv Thomas and Marcus Allen. The latter's test shoot was seized by the vice squad. Before long, Nadia appeared on the covers of Men Only and Club magazines, and was voted the latter's Girl of the Year for 1999. Many of these early shoots were taken by Bob Twigg, in places such as Alicante and Tenerife. Television followed, with Nadia featuring in an episode of Sky One's Weekender, Garry Bushell's Bushell 2000 satellite programme, and The Big Breakfast. But it was Planet Nadia for TVX: The Fantasy Channel that won her the most attention. Directed by Anna Span - a member of Feminists Against Censorship - the 13 girl/girl episodes were filmed in houses around London and showed Nadia naturalistically, talking and being herself. She interviewed Mani from Primal Scream for Club and was a dancer on the videos for Rui da Silva's "Touch Me" and Victoria Beckham's "Not Such an Innocent Girl". When Add N to (X) made an adult video starring her and another British star, Layla Jade, for their single "Plug Me In" it received broadsheet newspaper attention. Nadia was interviewed in The Face and appeared in Sky magazine. She discovered the Yahoo! Groups fansite HyperCuteNadia in 2001 and became an enthusiastic contributor, displaying a willingness to engage with her fans as equals rather than assuming an attitude that separated her from her peers. Pixie - as she now chose to be known - was back a year later, in late 2002. The next year, up until autumn 2003, was to be perhaps her busiest and most productive period. She made another series of Planet Nadia, this time directed by Andy Ide, and an episode of Alias Kelle Marie. Ide also filmed her own film, Pixie-Licks, which was finally released in 2006. Pixie was one of the faces of TVX: The Fantasy Channel, appearing in adverts on the station and in The Daily Star and Sunday Sport. She appeared on the cover of the Sonic Mook Experiment Vol.3 album. She was interviewed in Sleazenation and Arena, which included her in their list of the six hottest and most influential porn stars.Pixie's photoshoots from this period also include the five she did for SimonScans. She worked with UK fetish photographer Ben Westwood, son of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. She did a series of photoshoots and videos for John Mason and One Eyed Jack. She starred in Nadia's Sweet Revenge directed by Big Jim. She was photographed by Adrian Smale for a number of sets with Tamara Noon which appeared in Club and Men Only. She went to Ibiza for another photoset with Terri Summers. She went to Portugal and made Pussy in Paradise, a Viv Thomas lesbian movie where her co-stars were all Hungarians. Early in 2004, Pixie made this announcement: "I have officially quit.there is no scandal, I always anticipated quiting when I got to a certain, age-now i have. other things look more appealing, and I am really missing studying. I am going back to uni in 2006 and need to have got some relevant experience under my belt. I have also realised that I can't put 100% into everything, so i've had to make a decision as to what's most important to me. the video will still come out,though I have been too busy- with my 2 new jobs!-to get around to sorting it all out."