Zara Whites
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Esther Kooiman (born 1968[2]), known professionally as Zara Whites, is a French-Dutch environmental activist and former pornographic film actress.[3][4][1]
Early life
[edit]Whites was born in Rotterdam in 1968.[2] She dropped out of school at an early age and moved in with her boyfriend when she was 17. In her late teens she worked as a barmaid and at the age of 19, as a prostitute in two men's clubs in Rotterdam.
Pornographic film career
[edit]Whites appeared in 27 pornographic films in the 1990s, taking her stage name from White's, a brothel in Rotterdam.[2] In 1992, Whites was briefly married to Italian porn actor Roberto Malone and reoriented her career towards non-sex roles in soft core with a French TV series for M6, Joy. In 1998, she made a comeback with a lesbian hardcore movie, La Dresseuse, directed by Alain Payet.
Environmental activism
[edit]She has appeared in various French TV programmes on issues such as the legislative election and vegetarian cuisine.[citation needed]
In 2006, Whites published her autobiography, titled Je suis Zara Whites mais je me soigne ("I am Zara Whites but I'm taking care of myself").[5]
She was nominated for the French electoral campaign of 2007 under the name Esther Spincer.[2] In May 2011, she became national secretary of the green political party Independent Ecological Alliance (AEI).[4]
Publications
[edit]- Zara Whites: Ma vie et mes fantasmes (in French). JC Lattès. 1992. ISBN 978-2-7096-1147-3.
- With Ludovic Menguy: Je suis Zara Whites mais je me soigne (in French). Paris: J.-C. Gawsewitch. 2006. ISBN 978-2-35013-054-5.
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Esther". Het mooiste meisje van de klas [The Most Beautiful Girl in the Class]. 14 August 2012. TROS. Nederland 1.
- 1 2 3 4 Noualhat, Laure (28 July 2007). "Femme à poils". Libération (in French). Archived from the original on 21 February 2009.
- ↑ Laïdi, Malik (26 February 2018). "Zara Whites, l'actrice X, devenue Esther Kooiman, militante écolo" [Zara Whites, the adult film actress, who became Esther Kooiman, an environmental activist]. L'Écho Republicain (in French). Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- 1 2 Garrofé, Cédric (15 September 2011). "Vous avez interviewé Esther Spincer (Zara Whites), secrétaire nationale de l'Alliance écologiste indépendante" [You interviewed Esther Spincer (Zara Whites), national secretary of the Independent Ecological Alliance]. 20 Minutes (in French). Retrieved 1 November 2025.
- ↑ "Je suis Zara Whites mais je me soigne". Livres-cinema.info (in French). n.d. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
External links
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- Zara Whites at IMDb
- ZaraWhites at the Internet Adult Film Database
- Zara Whites at the Adult Film Database
