# Former Miss USA 1991 Kelli McCarty goes the XXX route. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2009, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111 "2009-01-20T06:10:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/21 "2009-01-20T17:59:20Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > Nobody else has mentioned that this is Beth from _Passions_, which makes it 10 times as funny. I’ll bet the career change is also much less degrading, too. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/22 "2009-01-20T18:02:00Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > She won a Tony as Glinda in Wicked. Well deserved, too. I saw her a few years ago in the role. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/23 "2009-01-20T19:34:30Z")
Is this a first? Has there ever been an actor before who went from playing a character on network TV for seven years to working in porn? -Kris ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/24 "2009-01-20T20:09:05Z")
Her latest movie was titled [Polycarp](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0933342/). I think we should investigate this connection further. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/25 "2009-01-20T20:15:28Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Is this a first? > > Has there ever been an actor before who went from playing a character on network TV for seven years to working in porn? > > -Kris Pretty specific there, aren’t you? 😉 Probably not under those particular circumstances, but can you include people like Dustin Diamond, who made a sex tape? How about Stephen Geoffreys, who was in Fright Night (Roddy McDowell), then went into gay porn? [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313267/](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313267/) ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/26 "2009-01-20T20:21:15Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Is this a first? > > Has there ever been an actor before who went from playing a character on network TV for seven years to working in porn? > > -Kris There was [Jaimee Foxworth,](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289340/) who played little Judy Winslow on Family Matters for 5 seasons or so before she was Chuck Cunninghamed off the show. She did some porn back in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/27 "2009-01-21T00:28:50Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > D’oh! I got it from a page that also had the other woman on it. Apparently they were in the same sorority (probably not the same chapter) as was Reese Witherspoon, Kirstie Alley, Gwyneth Paltrow and a lot of young hotties who like to ho it up. I’m sure they’ll be quite proud and leave her on their website [Gamma Phi Beta](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c215/hoeray/f4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.myspace.com/gammaphibetaucr&usg=__K99tGmArgALkb5PTmNGmb9JDwOo=&h=400&w=277&sz=41&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=RoTDEQZqt2o1lM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=86&prev=/images%3Fq%3DChenowerth%2BKelli%2BMcCarty%2BGamma%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG), I think. Sorry for the confusion, they both have freakishly wide mouths, I figured it was just the same woman with blond hair. “ho it up”? Witherspoon? Paltrow? Alley? Chenoweth? I think we may well have different definitions of “ho”. In fact if I were to put together a short list of some of the more together A and B list women most of these would be part of it. Sorry Kristen, love ya, but you’re a “B” list at best in the world of Hollywood. Sorry Kirstie, I’m happy you’ve kicked your coke addiction, but OT VII makes you a bit of a nut. Paltrow and Witherspoon, both academy award winners, have had marriages fail, but neither is a self-destructive ho a-la Lindsey Lohan or Britney Spears. When I first saw the link you posted I thought “OMG! the former Miss America is a dead ringer for Kristen Chenoweth! I gotta get me a copy of whatever porn she ends up doing because even if it’s not the real thing, Kristen is so freaking hot.” Then I find it’s all a mistake. ☹ Chenoweth, alas, [did not win a Tony for “Wicked”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Chenoweth#Awards). Idina Menzel did(they were both nominated). Chenoweth had previously won a “Best Featured Actress” Tony for “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” and Menzel had been passed over for her work in “Rent”, so odds are the Tony committee was influenced by both these factors in their decision to give the nod to Menzel when they both came up for “Wicked”. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/28 "2009-01-21T00:57:34Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > “ho it up”? Witherspoon? Paltrow? Alley? Chenoweth? I think we may well have different definitions of “ho”. Not the famous actors, the Gamma Phi Betas on the right hand side of that page. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/29 "2009-01-21T15:01:37Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > She won a Tony as Glinda in Wicked. No she didn’t. Her Tony was for playing Sally in _You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown_. She was nominated for Glinda, but her _Wicked_ co-star Idina Menzel won that year instead. Whoops, Mtgman beat me to it ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/30 "2009-01-21T16:44:19Z")
Ya know, its 2009. Being in porn is almost respectable. And I bet its more than almost respectable than being in a ‘beauty pageant’. Because, when you think about it, porn is actually just a 100% honest, no-bullshit beauty contest: Here she is in a formal. Here she is in an evening gown. In a bathing suit. Playing the trumpet. He’s how she looks naked. Here she is sucking cock… ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/31 "2009-01-21T18:15:16Z")
Vivid is also one of the most “respectable” companies in porn. They have their stars under contract, and they attempt to make “real” movies, with acting and plots - in contrast to the vast mainstream of porn which ranges from simple scenarios (“I’m the plumber and am here to clean your pipes”) to plot-free “gonzo”. They’re considered couples porn, and unusually woman friendly, as opposed to the twisted misogyny that has infected most porn. She could do much, much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/32 "2009-01-21T18:19:20Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Is this a first? > > Has there ever been an actor before who went from playing a character on network TV for seven years to working in porn? > > -Kris Didn’t work out too well for Paris Hilton or Rob Lowe. ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/33 "2009-01-21T19:01:20Z")
Gawd help us - those are some horrible 3d bits. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/34 "2009-01-21T21:00:37Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Didn’t work out too well for Paris Hilton or Rob Lowe. Or Dana Plato, but she had other problems. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/35 "2009-01-21T22:20:25Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Didn’t work out too well for Paris Hilton or Rob Lowe. Neither of whom have ever “worked in porn.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/36 "2009-01-21T22:39:28Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Tripler > > - Note: IIRC, the Miss USA and Miss America contests are bitter, bitter rivals. Would be cool if there were a **unicycle joust** between them to ‘unite the heavyweight titles’. No, no, no. Only a caged mud-wrestling match is worthy for the decision of such a mighty conflict. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111/37 "2009-01-21T22:41:22Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > “ho it up”? Witherspoon? Paltrow? Alley? Chenoweth? I think we may well have different definitions of “ho”. Please don’t take this away from us! ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/former-miss-usa-1991-kelli-mccarty-goes-the-xxx-route/482111.md?page=1)