Amber Lynn born Laura Lynn Allen ; September 3, [ 1 ] is an American pornographic film actress and mainstream actress, radio host, model, exotic dancer , advocate and humanitarian. She has four brothers and an older sister who died at the age of two from an undetected heart defect.
When Lynn was three, her parents divorced after it was discovered her father had a family with another woman. Shortly after, Lynn's mother suffered a nervous breakdown , and Lynn was placed in foster care, where she was physically abused. She was reunited with her mother when she was seven. Shortly after, the two of them were involved in a car accident on the interstate; Lynn was thrown clear of the car and her mother died at the scene.
Lynn and her brothers were placed with her father and his new family; in total there were eight boys and Lynn in the house. When Lynn was eleven, her father died of alcoholism and heart failure.
As a teenager, Lynn self-described her change as going from "pudgy kind of bucktoothed" tomboy to a "rocking little body". She relocated to Hollywood and became a regular at the clubs on Sunset Strip.
Lynn was a bikini and figure model in Los Angeles in the early s; following this she was featured in nude magazine photo spreads for Penthouse , Hustler , Chic , High Society and Club magazines. Lynn made the transition from nude modeling to pornographic films with an appearance in Bobby Hollander 's feature Personal Touch 3 in a scene with Craig Roberts, and in the video "Vixens In Heat" release date December , she was the first adult actress to use the surname "Lynn" as her professional screen name.
