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Leah Lust: teacher to porn star, a role model falls

Leah Lust the new Mary Carey
  AP Photo (Mary Carey) is Leah Lust a new rival?

There is a sad demise of role models these days that is wreaking havoc with marriage and families and putting children at risk.  We finally get over the news about  John Edwards, Mark Sanford, and coach Rick Pitino and now a new role model falls, this time a teacher.

According to the New York Daily News "Tiffany Shepherd, 31, made headlines in April after bikini-clad pictures of her on a fishing charter got her canned from Port St. Lucie High School. She turned to doing porn, she told a Florida news outlet, after losing custody of two of her three kids to her ex-husband and sending out 2,500 resumes – some even to prisons – without landing a new teaching job." Bikini-clad teacher Tiffany Shepherd, aka Leah Lust, turns to porn .

With John Edwards, Mark Sanford, and coach Rick Pitino, they apparently missed the word “not” in “Thou shall not commit adultery.”    What I find to be most upsetting is that these news-makers put their families through public embarrassment because of their thoughtless actions. They fall short as role models which children need for their own lives. 

With Tiffany Shepherd she has already been through a divorce and John Edwards and Mark Sanford were involved in the type of adulterous affairs that most often lead to divorce.

Judith Wallerstein, PhD, is author of The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, which was the result of a 25-year landmark study. In a PBS interview she said that “the major impact of divorce is not, as we thought, at the time of the breakup, although that's very hard, but the major impact of divorce happens when they enter young adulthood and they... when the man/woman situation, man/woman relationship moves center stage, and that's when the ghosts of the parent's divorce rise from the basement." 
 
While we all appreciate Tiffany Shepherd's frustration at not finding a job, going from teacher to porn star seems like a sad choice.  Tiffany Shepherd: single mom teacher saga (video interview) to Leah Lush
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  • Michel 2 years ago
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    How shortsighted. Why condemn the role society plays in marking people for life, people who done nothing wrong?

  • Dar 2 years ago
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    How dare whoever wrote this article. She was forced to take a job in pornography because no one else would take her!

  • Rosa 2 years ago
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    I find it amusing that many people bought into the claims that 1) she was fired as a teacher because of her other job, and 2) porn is now her only option as the school has totally made it its mission to not let her have any decent job for as long as she lives. Give me a break. Employers aren't as tight-knit and collaborative as that.

    By the way, the other job that allegedly got her fired involves wearing a bikini mostly for the pleasure of fishermen, and the requirement they have for job-seekers out there sounds as simple as "No experience is necessary, but you must look HOT in a bikini!" I really think this shows what kind of person Tiffany Shepherd is, and arguably she HAS done something wrong by willingly allowing men to continue treating women as a piece of meat. Yes, I agree she's not a good role model.

  • Jay 2 years ago
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    I think Tiffany is a human like u and I and whatever she does in her personal time is none of my concern or yours Ms.Rosa .
    I personally don't see anything wrong with having a Bikini Shot.

  • Steven 1 year ago
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    There is nothing wrong with her first shoot, why not have a bikini shoot, lots of people wear bikini's at the beach and even go topless.
    Not too sure how she went from that to full on having sex gonzo style on camera. Abit of a change! Maybe she was planning on doing it for awhile, maybe her friend planned on getting her to do hardcore porn?
    Seems abit extreme to go from bikini shoots to closeup hardcore sex acts.
    The children have a father who earns money so that cant be the whole reason and to have a contract and keep doing the scenes seems really sluty.

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