The Duke University student who is known in the adult entertainment film industry as "Belle Knox" and finances her education by moonlighting as a porn star has another secret. She is dealing with a compulsion of self mutilation. click the Daily Mail link to see the scars that her compulsion has left on her body.www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2583675/EXCLUSIVE-The-photos-Duke-porn-star-Belle-Knox-cutter-gets-aroused-hurting-herself.html QUOTE:
EXCLUSIVE: The shocking modelling photos that show that 18-year-old Duke porn star Belle Knox is a cutter who gets 'aroused' by hurting herselfMarch 18, 2014
Dramatic modelling photos reveal the scars on 18-year-old porn star's thighs
Evidence that Belle, whose real name is Miriam Weeks, carved the word 'FAT' on her left thigh after an ex-boyfriend ridiculed her weight
'I'm a slut who needs to be punished,' Belle says
She stays in a small apartment in a scruffy LA neighbourhood with other porn actresses
She has received death threats and people threaten to throw rubbish at her
She was raised as a devout Catholic and her parents Dr Kevin Weeks and his Indian wife, had no idea she was in porn but Belle insists they are 'absolutely supportive'Duke University student Belle Knox, who shot to fame after it was disclosed that she is making porn films to pay her steep tuition fees, says she's aroused by pain.
And there's no greater proof of the self-inflicted kind than in MailOnline’s shocking exclusive photographs of Belle, whose real name is Miriam Weeks.
The modeling photos, taken shortly before she began her porn career, clearly show ugly cutting marks on the porn star’s thighs.
Most worrisome is the word 'FAT', carved into her skin of her left thigh.
'Oh yeah, she is a major league cutter,' said one blogger in a recent post. 'From the thighs down to the toes. Apparently her ex-boyfriend that cheated on her told her she was fat so she carved the word into her thigh.
Other viewers of her videos have remarked about the scars, commenting that the cutting ‘should be more of a concern than having sex on camera.’
'I'm a slut that needs to be punished,' Belle told XOJane.com.
And she acknowledges being a cutter too. "Like man young women grappling with depression, I used to take it out on myself,' she says. She insists she's been clean from self-harm for five years.
But Dr Gregory Smith, a leading expert on addiction and pain and the producer of the award-winning documentary, American Addict, tells MailOnline: “While these are old scars, I should warn the girl that this addiction can rear its ugly head whenever she faces emotional upheaval or trauma.
'There haven’t been studies about the genetic component of cutting but I suspect that if one is predisposed to self-mutilation, the urge to cut will always lie below the surface.
'These are definitely marks of a cutter who used a knife or razor blade to mutilate herself,' Smith says of the modeling pictures.'The upper thighs are a prime spot for cutting because they are usually covered up.
'People who cut say they derive pleasure from the pain because it allows them to ‘feel’ again. Often these are young women who are emotionally traumatized or numb.
'There are many reasons why girls cut, and the fact that she comes from a Catholic background and is doing porn suggests that she may be cutting as a form of self punishment.
'Very often women who do porn have to psychologically disassociate themselves from their actions or from the person they are having sex with. They turn the switch off so that they feeling nothing but emptiness. Cutting gives them back that feeling that they are still alive, they can still feel pain—and for them, it is sheer pleasure.'
'Pain arouses me," Belle says.
She admits disturbing details of her childhood and teen years - although she's still a teen - revealing that she cut herself and asked friends to lock her in a dog cage.
'I was not fully aware of it but it physically and mentally aroused me. I didn't know why but I liked it.
Belle describes her first experience making a porn video that featured a violent scene during which she performed oral sex on her male co-star.
She said the scene was feminist because he gets off on 'painful,' nasty', name-calling-filled sex.
The 18-year-old who has caused nationwide uproar and family heartache was raised a devout Roman Catholic in a loving home in Spokane, Washington.
Miriam’s father Kevin and mother Harcharan, reportedly have been ‘floored’ by their daughter’s decision to turn to porn to fund her $60,000-a-year education at the elite university.
Weeks said today that her parents were not aware of her decision to enter the porn industry but are now 'absolutely supportive' of her choice.
And her family life seems to be as troublesome as her romantic life. Although Belle continues to deny that there is a rift in her family, MailOnline learned that she recently cancelled a showdown with her parents because she’s too busy filming X-rated movies.
Since the 18-year-old’s story broke, Belle has been inundated with requests from media outlets, websites and porn producers.
Her story caught the attention of the world when it was revealed that she couldn’t afford her $60,000 a year university tuition so turned to porn to pay her way. without her parents knowing.
MailOnline revealed last week that army doctor Kevin Weeks and his wife Harcharan were horrified to learn about their new daughter’s career - just weeks after he had returned home from a deployment to Afghanistan.
But far from feeling embarrassed about her new profession, Belle insisted she has reveled in her newfound fame. Only 24 hours after it was announced, she was a guest on the CNN’s Piers Morgan Live and she recently appeared on The View. She's received many other offers.
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