Zara Whites

Zara Whites
Whites in 2019
Born1968 (age 57–58)
's-Gravendeel, Hoeksche Waard, Netherlands[1]

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

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

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

She has appeared in various French TV programmes on issues such as the legislative election and vegetarian cuisine.

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

  • 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

  1. ^ a b "Esther". Het mooiste meisje van de klas [The Most Beautiful Girl in the Class]. 14 August 2012. TROS. Nederland 1.
  2. ^ a b c d Noualhat, Laure (28 July 2007). "Femme à poils". Libération (in French). Archived from the original on 21 February 2009.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b 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.
  5. ^ "Je suis Zara Whites mais je me soigne". Livres-cinema.info (in French). n.d. Retrieved 31 October 2025.
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