Asia Carrera is an half asian and half caucasian girl. Her mother is from Japan and her father from Germany.
Asia states that she had a disciplined childhood. Her parents wanted her to go to Harvard to become a doctor or lawyer. Asia herself just wanted to have fun though and took every chance she could to run away from home to have a blast with her friends.
At an age of 17 were she put in a foster home, where is according to Asia was almost as strict as at her real parents.
To make a story short... At age 18 did Carrera escape from her foster parents, got a job at a bar where she soon started to serve drinks topless and started to make some $$$! Asia continued to work as a stripper for a while, but soon got in touch with a guy Bud Lee, for whom she made adult movies and also married :)