This one is a tribute to a classic. Because thanks to Kitten Natividad here, a lot of Latinas has delved into this industry that we all love (with our heart and soul). So it is only proper that we do this in her honor. Nope, she still walks among us. We just want to give her the respect she deserves while she does so.
Thank you, madam Kitten. And though you may not be the first Mexican to enter the industry (I think so), you paved the way for so many after.
Who is Kitten Natividad?
Kitten is a Mexican American film actress, exotic dancer and porn star, noted for her 44-inch chest and appearances in cult films by her ex-partner, director Russ Meyer
She is is the living embodiment of ‘older and bolder.’ The older she gets, the bolder she is on camera. Kitten Natividad’s a super-stacked fortysomething who has been a staple of erotic films for almost two decades, and she seems to be just hitting her stride. Kitten’s main claim to fame is her naturally stacked frame. Standing just 5’3′ tall and weighing 118 pounds, Kitten’s measurements are a mind-boggling 44-25-35.
Kitten was also a popular exotic dance career, as well, and can safely be called one of the most popular older porn stars of all time.
Her Early Life
Kitten Natividad was born as Francesca Isabel Natividad on February 13, 1948, in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua State, Mexico. As the eldest of nine children she did not speak English until she was 10 years of age; this was in 1958. At that time, her mother married a U.S. citizen and they moved to Texas. She attended Ysleta High School in El Paso, where she was her senior class president.
Kitten worked as both a maid and a cook for Stella Stevens, and then as a key-punch operator for IBM, before eventually turning to go-go dancing to make ends meet. At this time, she adopted the stage name of “Kitten” Natividad, which came from her shyness. In 1969, at the age of 21 years, she had her first breast implant surgery in Tijuana on the advice of her agent.
Career Journey
Kitten is Miss Nude Universe twice in a row, in 1970 and 1971, got her a topless non-speaking part in The New Centurions (1972). Started working as a maid for fellow nude model and actress Stella Stevens, went on tour as a strip-dancer for three years. Then she met talent-finder Russ Meyer, with whom she lived on-and-off for 15 years, and who apparently paid for her breast enhancement in 1979.
Kitten was introduced to Russ Meyer by fellow dancer Shari Eubank, a performer in Meyer’s 1975 film Supervixens. Meyer hired her to narrate his movie Up! He was so impressed he wanted her to star in his next feature, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, one of several collaborations between Meyer and film critic Roger Ebert. Meyer paid for a second breast enhancement and voice lessons to eliminate her accent. Due to the tragic results of her breast enhancement surgeries she deeply regretted what she was talked into doing. She left her husband for Meyer during the filming, and they lived together as a couple for most of the next 15 years.
After this, Kitten moved into pornographic modeling, mainly doing glamour or girl-girl shoots with the likes of Candy Samples, Uschi Digard, and Patty Plenty. The appearances increased her dancing income many times over. She incorporated a giant champagne glass into her act, similar to such as Lili St. Cyr had used, accompanied by the Bobby Darin hit “Splish Splash.” She appeared as a guest on The Dating Game, one of the numbers of game shows that Chuck Barris produced.
During the 1980s, Natividad began appearing in pornographic productions, initially limiting her performances to appearing topless. Eventually, however, she graduated to engaging in hardcore performances, usually with younger men and women. She has had backlash from burlesque performers because she did hardcore videos. She also founded the private photo and video studio called “The Kitten Klub.” Her website is now closed.
In 2001, Natividad starred in the cult film comedy The Double-D Avenger, directed by William Winckler, and in it, she was reunited with fellow Russ Meyer “repertory” stars actress Haji (from Meyer’s Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) and Raven De La Croix from Meyer’s film Up! In The Double-D Avenger, Kitten Natividad played Chastity Knott, a woman who becomes a busty costumed crime fighter.
Hot Curiosities
Kitten and Meyer didn’t marry because her first husband, 25 years her senior, wouldn’t grant her a divorce (eventually he did, and she subsequently married, and divorced, three times).
Kitten appeared on The Gong Show in the late 1970s and on The Dollar-Ninety-Eight Beauty Show, both of which, like The Dating Game, was produced by Chuck Barris.
In 1983, she appeared in a music video for Mitch Ryder’s version of the song, “When You Were Mine”, which was written by Prince.
Kitten was interviewed in the book “Invasion of the B-Girls” by Jewel Shepard and was profiled in the book “Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985” by Jill C. Nelson.
In October 1999, Natividad underwent double-mastectomy surgery for the treatment of breast cancer. After her breasts were removed, it was discovered that the silicone that had been used in her implants when she had undergone her 1969 surgery was of an industrial-grade rather than a surgical grade. She subsequently underwent corrective surgery, and this brought her closer to the size that her fans remembered her having been.
In August 2006, Natividad appeared in a Playboy layout, “The History of Bikinis.”
As of early August 2016, she was living alone with a pit bull and three cats, all of which were featured in the 2005 documentary movie Pornstar Pets, and she continued to support herself with sales of her porn videos and phone sex.
Kitten appeared in the Adam Rifkin independent feature A Night at the Golden Eagle; according to her, Rifkin remembered recognizing her when their cars were both stopped at the same stoplight 25 years earlier.
In her later films, she appeared plump but still attractive. Chris Penn remembered her 44-25-35 dimensions from his earlier film The Wild Life (1984), in which Kitten also danced, and he presented his brother Sean Penn with an eye-popping, erotic performance by Kitten Natividad on the eve of his marriage to Madonna.
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