Despite the shoot boosting his confidence, he didn’t feel embraced by the modelling industry. He speaks of a fairly typical home environment, where love and affection were communicated with restraint and modesty – possibly the reason why, in person, he is disarmingly genuine and low-key.Īfter abandoning a psychology degree to focus on his passion – personal training, a subject on which he has written several bestselling books – Le had his first brush with adult entertainment with an October 2001 spread in Playgirl, becoming one of the first Asian models to appear in its pages. His stated mission is much grander: to redefine the Asian male as a dominant sexual force and unleash him on the world.īorn in San Jose, California, to Vietnamese parents, Le admits that, growing up, he had never even considered modelling as a career. Despite having to push back against prejudice (his chosen career led to him being abruptly dropped from the cast of Asian-American Jersey Shore rip-off, K-Town), Le has gone on to become the biggest Asian gay porn star in history – and a cultural icon in China. Jack Smith grabs hold of Asian-American gay porn entrepreneur, fitness model and sex icon Peter Le – and has to be pried off him…Īfter exploding on to the scene in 2001, Peter Le has accumulated a display cabinet groaning with awards for bodybuilding, modelling, gay porn production and e-commerce.