Editing Jenna Jameson (section)

=== Early ===
Jameson tried to follow in her mother's career as a Las Vegas showgirl, but most shows rejected her for not having the then-typical height of {{convert|5|ft|8|in|cm}}.<ref name="Papermag" /><ref name="ReviewJournalShowgirls" /> She was hired at [[Disneyland Resort]],<ref name="Smith Apr 2004" /> but she left after two months, stating concerns over the schedule and salary.<ref name="January" />

Her boyfriend Jack encouraged her to apply for jobs as a dancer,<ref name="Grigoriadis" /> and in 1991, though underage, she began dancing in Las Vegas [[strip club]]s using a fake identification.<ref name="Profit" /><ref name="AskMen" /> After six months, she was earning US$2,000 per night, before graduating from [[Bonanza High School]].<ref name="Profit" />

Her first stage name as a dancer was "Jennasis",<ref name="ReviewJournal" /> which she later used as the name of a business that she incorporated ("Jennasis Killing Co.").<ref name="WIPO" />  As for picking her permanent professional name, she said, "I had to come up with a good name.  I didn't want a porno name.  So I sat down, opened up the phone book and thumbed to the J's, cause I wanted it to match my first name."  She saw 'James', but rejected "Jenna James" because it "sounds too porno".  Right under that was 'Jameson' which struck her as being the name of [[Jameson Irish Whiskey|the whiskey]] she likes and thought "Ok, that's perfect."  That night at work she saw her brother and asked him what he thought of the name "Jenna Jameson".  He said, "I'm drinking Jameson right now."  And the name stuck after that.<ref name="Profit" /><ref name="Metacafe" /><ref>{{cite episode |title=Jenna Jameson |series=E! True Hollywood Story |network=E! Entertainment Television |date=2003 |season=7 |number=37 |minutes=22}}</ref>

Besides dancing, starting later in 1991, she posed for nude photographs for photographer [[Suze Randall]] in Los Angeles, with the intention of getting into ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]''.<ref name="January" />{{sfn|Jameson|Strauss|2003|pp=99–107}} After her photos had appeared in several men's magazines under various names, she then stopped working for Randall, feeling Randall was "a shark".<ref name="SalonBookReview" />

While in high school, she began taking drugs&nbsp;– [[cocaine]], [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]], and [[methamphetamine]]&nbsp;– accompanied by her brother (who was addicted to [[heroin]]<ref name="Smith Apr 2004" />) and at times her father.<ref name="Higginbotham" /> Her addiction worsened during her four years with her boyfriend. She eventually stopped eating properly and became too thin to model; Jack left her in 1994. She weighed {{convert|76|lb|kg}}<ref name="PsychiatricServices" /> when a friend put her in a wheelchair and sent her to her father, who was then living in [[Redding, California]], in order to detox; her father did not recognize her when she got off the plane.<ref name="Higginbotham" />
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