Michelle Lay is from Ann Arbor, Michigan and moved from her home state to Las Vegas in 1994. She initially worked as a cocktail waitress, but soon got a night job as an exotic dancer. After a few years of stripping, she moved to Los Angeles in 1998 and settled in Malibu. Shortly after that she decided to check out the porn business with her husband Reno Ash, liked what she saw, and made her debut in 2002. She retired about ten years later in 2012.