Penny Flame

About Penny Flame

Penny Flame from Aurora, Colorado, and then San Francisco, California, has posed for 108 covers, 50 photosets, and 58 videos, before retiring in 2009.

Penny Flame was born in Aurora, Colorado, but was raised in the San Fransisco Bay area. She went to San Diego State to study business administration, planning for a career in hotel management. She began her modeling career by responding to an ad in the San Diego State newspaper. At one of the modeling jobs that followed she met an agent. Her stage name was inspired by The Beatles' song "Penny Lane".

In 2003 she decided to make adult features to help pay for her schooling. By working four days a month she could earn enough money to allow her to focus on her studies the rest of the time. Penny began by only appearing in solo still photography. Her first scene in an adult film was in "Indian Givers" (2003), directed by Robby D. for Digital Playgound. During these early years Penny would only work in solo or all-girl scenes. In 2005 she began to work with men, and in that year won the AVN Award for "Best Solo Sex Scene" for Repo Girl (2003). This boosted her confidence in her work and helped her make the transition to working with men.

Later in 2005 she appeared in her first big-budget film, DarkSide (2005) (which was also Red Light District's first feature film). She went on to win two more AVN Awards for her work in "Darkside", one for "Best Couples Sex Scene--Film" with Herschel Savage and the other for "Best Group Sex Scene--Film". However, Penny preferred and worked primarily in gonzo films and signed an exclusive directing contract with Shane's World Studios. With Shane's World she began producing her own line of films title "Blazed and Confused". These movies displayed Penny's advocacy for marijuana.

In 2009 she entered the Pasadena Recovery Center for sex addiction, on the TV series Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew (2009). Initially she was going to use the series to gain publicity for her porn career, but in the end she accepted that she had a serious compulsion. In March 2010 she appeared on the TV series Sober House (2009).

She subsequently quit the porn business and became married. She had a blog called "Becoming Jennie" (which is now her Instagram), wrote a column for the Huffington Post," and also wrote a memoir called "I Am Jennie," published in 2014.

In 2016, Jennie obtained a Masters in Social Work and became a licensed psychotherapist. She is founder and CEO of the West Coast Anxiety Clinic in Washington state, which employees three therapists as of June 2026. She has appeared on Dr. Drew's podcast to discuss therapies and has her own podcast called "The Values Forward Show."