Anna Ilona Staller

Anna Ilona was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her biological father, László Staller left the family when she was just a girl, and then she was raised by her stepfather, who was an official in the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior, and her mother, a midwife. In 1964 she began working for a Hungarian modeling agency, M.T.I. In her memoirs and in a 1999 TV interview, she claimed that she had provided Hungarian authorities with information on American diplomats staying at a Budapest luxury hotel where she worked as a maid in the late 1960s.
Pornography and show business career
Naturalized by marriage and settled in Italy, she met pornographer Riccardo Schicchi in the early 1970s, and, beginning in 1973, achieved fame with a radio show called "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" (French: "Do you want to sleep with me?") on Radio Luna. For that program she adopted the name "la Cicciolina," which translates, loosely, as "Cuddles". She has referred to her male fanbase and later the Italian parliament as "cicciolini", translating loosely as "little tubby boys". Although she appeared in several films from 1970, she made her debut under her own name in 1975 with "La Liceale," whose U.S. title was "The Teasers," playing a lesbian classmate of Gloria Guida. In 1978, on the RAI show "C'era due Volte", her breasts were the first to be bared live on Italian TV.