Vanessa de Largie is an all-round creative who has worked in the media and entertainment industry for 30 years – collecting some awards along the way. 

Vanessa’s body of work addresses sexual liberation, fierce female sexuality and gender politics. Her work has received media attention in The Washington Times, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Guardian, The Bolt Report, Studio 10 and Mashable – to name a few.

Vanessa recently signed a publishing contract with conservative publisher Connor Court and has a non-fiction book launching in 2024. 

Vanessa penned her own column for three mainstream media outlets over the space of a decade:

• For 6 years, Vanessa was the resident sex-columnist at Maxim Magazine, contributing a monthly sex column to their print and online issues.

• Between 2018 – 2023, Vanessa wrote a regular opinion column for the iconic British/Australian magazine – The Spectator.

• Between 2015 – 2017, Vanessa was a blogger for the Huff Post, writing over thirty blogs, after pitching a successful idea to Huffington Post founder – Ariana Huffington. 

In total, Vanessa has written over 1000 columns published in approximately sixty media outlets worldwide. Vanessa’s columns have appeared in: 

Maxim, Penthouse, GQ, The Spectator, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, iNews UK, The Mercury, RendezView, SBS, News.com.au, Online Opinion, MamaMia, New Matilda, Quadrant, Perth Now, NT News and innumerable others. 

In 2019, Vanessa debuted at #60 on the Ultra Tune Maxim Magazine HOT 100. She also spoke at the Liberty Friedman Conference in Sydney and appeared on Australian talk show Studio 10, defending hardcore porn.

As an actress, Vanessa has worked on countless productions in film and theatre. She trained at the esteemed Actors Centre in London and the New Actors Workshop in New York. 

In 2017, Vanessa spent six months living in the UK and had the great privilege of performing her one-woman show at the Tristan Bates Theatre in the West End.

A decade prior, Vanessa was cast in the lead role of Australian feature film Nocturne, Night of The Vampire distributed by Troma. The film screened at the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival (Belgium), Cork Film Festival (Ireland), Athens Film Festival (Greece), Razor Reel Fantastic Film Festival (Bruges), Portobello Film Festival (London) and Broet (Holland). She attended all screenings as an international guest.

Vanessa is the author of three memoirs — Tantric Afternoons and the award-winning Don’t Hit Me  and Without My Consent.  In 2021, Don’t Hit Me was turned into an audiobook and Vanessa was signed by Authors Republic in Canada.

Vanessa frequently collaborates with acclaimed German artist, van Rijn on limited edition art and poetry books and her film essay ‘Empire of The Ants’ was included in the 2017 Belgium movie guide: When Animals Attack: The 70 Best Horror Movies With Killer Animals. 

Vanessa suffers from Endometriosis and has used her writing to create awareness about the disorder. She wrote a play titled If A Bloke Had Endo. It was performed at the Box Hill Hospital to an audience of doctors, international experts and politicians. Vanessa’s essays have been published in the medical journal, Endo Issues. Additionally, she was invited to write a column about Endometriosis for the Huff Post.

Vanessa’s poetry has been widely published and she has performed as a spoken word artist at numerous events. She also competed in Australia’s Poetry Idol twice. 

Vanessa has worked as a photographic model both locally and internationally. In 2017, she worked with acclaimed Belgium photographer Kris Dewitte in London.  Dewitte has shot a number of magazine covers – including the cover of Vanity Fair. In 2010, she worked with world-famous photographer, David LaChapelle on the Nokia campaign. And in 2012, she was a state finalist in the Miss Pinup Australia Pageant, competing under the title – Miss V Bomb.