Keli Richards was born in Norwood, MA, and grew up in Dedham, MA. of Irish and Italian descent, she was the youngest in a family of eight children (she has four brothers and three sisters). Her s father was a World War II veteran and a police officer who committed suicide when she was 11 and was raised by her very strict mother. She ran track in high school, but dropped out of high school in the tenth grade and got a job as a waitress. She moved to Irvine, CA, at 18 and continued to work as a waitress. One day she answered an ad for modeling and wound up becoming a client of the World Modeling Agency, run by legendary agent Jim South. She began her career in adult films in the mid-'80s but quit porn in the late '80s and got married. She moved to Rochester, NY, but that marriage lasted only five months and was annulled. She eventually mo...