Faris, who was born in Salt Lake City and graduated from high school in Portland, Oregon, juggled three jobs before starting her porn career. She was a waitress at a country club in the morning and then was a waitress at a different restaurant, at night and then in the middle of the day would come home, eat lunch, get her cousin with cerebral palsy off the bus and make sure he was set up and his caretaker came over to take over. Faris, who has lived in eight different states but was in Sacramento at the time she started her porn career.