Her Way
Kristy Morgan
by Maya Cherry
Xtreme: Good morning, Kristy!
Kristy Morgan: Hey, Maya!
Xtreme: Why don’t you tell me a little bit about yourself?
Kristy: I did Playboy since I was about 18. I started doing special edition magazines, like with lingerie and about college girls and stuff. I did about twenty of those. Then I went on an MTV reality show, “A Shot at Love 2 with Tila Tequila,” a couple years ago. I won the show and there was a huge controversy surrounding it because at the end, I denied Tila, and there was just all this craziness. After that, I had to make a decision about what I wanted to do, you know, like getting into the business. I was kind of doing a lot of nightclub events, and I turned it around and started doing strip club featuring things because I realized that [having been on the show], I could start doing things like that. After doing the reality show, I did Playboy in October 2008, and have kind of just been going from there to where I’m at now.
Xtreme: So adult came first.
Kristy: Yes.
Xtreme: How did you end up on “A Shot at Love”?
Kristy: I was actually at a bar, clubbing with a girlfriend of mine, and we were dancing and going crazy. They were casting at this club and I didn’t know this, so I was really just hanging out. They came up to me and were like, “We think you’re really hot and we want to put you on a reality show. Do you like girls?” I was like, “Uh, of course I like girls! Everybody likes girls” [laughs], and so they recommended me going on the show. So I was sent out to California, and I had to beat out a lot of people. There were a lot of girls auditioning for the show. Going into it, I had absolutely no idea that I was going to win. I definitely wasn’t expecting a life change that night.
Xtreme: I’m sure! If you were just going out to the bar, of course not.
Kristy: I wasn’t expecting for my whole life to turn around with a reality show, but it was an opportunity, so I took it. All this stuff was coming my way, and I take things that come my way.
Xtreme: Off the top of my head, I can’t really think of another reality show that ended the way yours did. Was that a big thing for you - were you nervous telling her basically, “Thanks but no thanks”?
Kristy: It was tough for me to make that decision, but I felt really strong about... I don’t want anyone to think that just because you’re dating somebody, that means you have to be with them. Everybody goes on dates. Everybody dates people for a few months here, a few months there, and then you have to decide, “Okay, do I want to be with this person or not?” That’s what I did. I dated her for a month, I got to know her, and she wasn’t for me. I still to this day feel like I had every right to decide if I wanted to take it to the next step or not, and I didn’t. She was not my type in any way. And how was I supposed to know if she was my type if I didn’t go out on those dates to begin with? So a lot of people were against what I did, but I was just trying to show everybody that just because you’re dating somebody doesn’t mean you have to be with them.
Xtreme: Like on “The Bachelor,” how they end every season with the couple getting engaged and then two months later they’re completely broken up.
Kristy: Exactly. If I didn’t see it going anywhere, I didn’t see how it made sense for me to stay with her. A lot of people were kind of against it, but the truth is, that’s what Tila was doing the whole entire show. She was getting to know people, and then she’d eliminate them [after deciding whether] she liked them or not. I did the same thing, but I did it to her. And it wasn’t TO her, but I’d been dating her for about a month and I didn’t feel the same way she felt. It was really, really tough. Let me tell you, that finale of the show, kind of battling what I was going to do, it was really a last-minute kind of thing. No one really knows that, but it was. I didn’t want to tell her “no”, but [I told myself] at the last minute, “Just go with what you feel.” I tried to do what was right.
Xtreme: Were you cool with her after? I vaguely remember an online video in which she pretty much railed on you.
Kristy: Yeah! Yeah, she hated me. She felt like I humiliated her on her show. I said to her, “Either we don’t work this out now, or we can pretend to be together and it won’t work out.” What she saw in me, I didn’t see in her. I didn’t see her as a sincere person. Truthfully. I didn’t feel that someone who can break hearts is someone I want to be with, and that’s what she would do. No one understands that all the people who walked out of that out, that she eliminated, she broke their heart, every person that walked out of that house, and she was okay with that. And I felt like, “You know what? I’m not okay with it.” So by the end, she absolutely hated what I did, but I felt like, “That’s what you do for a living. All the people on this show felt like they weren’t good enough for you. Well, I feel like you’re not good enough for me.”
Xtreme: Is it possible to even find genuine love on reality TV?
Kristy: No. Absolutely not, but she thought she could. I guess it would be somewhat possible if you could get to know the person, but it’s just dating. Everyone uses this word “love”, but it’s just dating. I mean, I only [went out with] her, like, five times. It’s not like I lived with her. I only went on five dates with her. All these people who were getting eliminated probably only had one or two dates with her when she eliminated them, so how much can you really prove to someone who you are in two dates? I kind of felt that the show was ridiculous. But I went with it. People were going crazy. People hated me for what I did. I didn’t care, though. I’m not going to be with someone I felt wasn’t for me, so I wasn’t gonna do it because of who she was.
Xtreme: So when did you discover that you like girls?
Kristy: I always liked girls. My first experience with a girl was when I was like fourteen. I’ve always had a thing for girls; I’ve never had a serious girlfriend. I’ve definitely dated girls here and there. So I’ve always liked girls... I’m just bisexual, I guess [laughs].
Xtreme: Do you have a preference? It sounds like you slightly prefer men?
Kristy: I would say sixty-forty men. Women are so complicated and that’s the part I can’t deal with.
Xtreme: Have you done any kind of [porn] scenes
or anything?
Kristy: No, I’ve never done porn, and I’d never do porn. I actually have a website going right now that’s kind of Playboy model-meets-reality star, kind of a members-only site, but it’s really cool. It’s porn friends I have coming over and doing wacky, crazy stuff. It’s all sexual and naked things, but it’s more fun and a little outrageous. Some people describe me as almost like a Howard Stern on my site. I have sex toys and I make the girls use them. The site has actually come along well. It’s been up for a few months now and we’re getting some really good feedback on it. So that’s the [furthest] I would take it into the porn world.
Xtreme: So no amount of money or anything would be enough for you?
Kristy: No. I can’t. That’s one thing I just can’t do.
Xtreme: Have you been approached to do it?
Kristy: No, nobody’s approached me, which is good. I don’t really want anybody to approach me about it! I kind of like doing things on my own. I just started doing the strip club featuring thing and I love it, I really put a different twist on it. I’m not doing what the porn girls do. I don’t know exactly how they do it, but I know porn girls do things a little differently. I’m more kind of doing my shows on stage and putting a lot of effort into it, just getting the crowd into it, and I [basically] host it. I used to host nightclub events, so I’m used to doing that. What I’ve been doing at the strip club is going on stage and doing a cool, like, Michael Jackson set, and then I get off and host and get to the audience and get people really into the night. So we’ve been getting really good feedback with that. It’s been really good, definitely working for us.
Xtreme: What’s your favorite aspect of featuring:
Kristy: It’s definitely meeting the fans. I love the fans. More for me, it’s the energy in the place. I always get the strippers working that night really into it; I get them on stage, I make out with them. I really bring a lot up there on stage with me. I don’t just dance and be boring. I love to dance; I’ve danced my whole life. I’ve done all different types of dancing. I go up and do all different dancing sets, and I get the crowd really into it. The energy is really important for me to do a good show.
Xtreme: So what would you say are your career goals?
Kristy: I guess I’m on a five-year plan. I really want to make my site bigger. [The Howard Stern Show]’s coming up soon; they’re making me Miss May. I was really mainstream; I had just done Playboy, and the show. But anything that comes my way, I’ll take it. So I don’t really know where I’ll be in five years. I best describe myself as a Jenny McCarthy, like being on Saturday Night Live and acting like an idiot. That’s more my personality. I think I do well in what I’m doing now because of my personality. It’s the impression that you leave on people. And I hope to be doing more TV. But not looking for love.
Xtreme: Are you nervous that Howard will be mean to you?
Kristy: I’m not. I’m too quick! Nobody can really get over on me because I’ve got really good comebacks. I’m not worried about it.
Xtreme: So what’s your website:
Kristy: It’s KristyMorgan.net. Go there and you can find all my links too, like my Facebook and my Twitter. Once you go on the site it’ll bring you to everything. And it’s really me to answer my emails! That’s usually what I do on Sundays and Mondays, just go through my emails and write back to my fans.
Xtreme: Awesome. Well, thank you so much for chatting, Kristy, and good luck!
Kristy: Thanks, Maya!
