“I went to U.C. Santa Cruz — go Banana Slugs! — and graduated with a degree in biology,” Rose tells us during her official Crush of the Month interview. “I have a BS in biology. Biology was something I always loved because my parents are also science teachers. They are both now retired from teaching high school science. Growing up around science was always in my life.”

Rose’s parents encouraged her love for nature and also instilled their values of open-mindedness and sex positivity. She has a persistent interest in ecology and evolution and calls herself “a real nerd” and “a bio person,” one who opens up with a radiant smile when sharing her interest in ecosystems and how they remind her of the interconnected nature of the universe. Also, California girl through and through — raised in the O.C., later schooled among the fecund redwoods, and now spending her vibrant 20s among the ever-varying landscapes of the Greater Los Angeles area.

“Me and my family were always watching nature documentaries, going camping, hiking, spending time out in nature, learning about plants and animals, and the way that all that worked,” she reminisces. “And so it's something I love as a passion, but it was something that I didn't really know if I wanted to take it somewhere as a career.”

After graduation, Rose began teaching science to kids at an after-school program. Her entry into the academic workforce coincided with the pandemic, and the Zoom classes were not what she was expecting. “I was just having a really tough time at that job, and so I quit,” she shares. “And Max had just quit recently, and that's when we were like, ‘Fuck it — let’s just open an OnlyFans!’”

Fills and her had been living together for a while at this point. They call each other husband and wife, although they are not married on paper. In this, they say, they follow the tradition of Fills’ Colombian heritage, where people are considered “maridos” as soon as they start cohabiting. They met in college at the beginning of the pandemic, and they’ve been inseparable, though never monogamous, ever since.

“When we first started our relationship, we started swinging, and then after a while, we kind of figured out that wasn't exactly the best fit for us,” Rose explains. “The transition into professional sex work has been interesting, because it's obviously it's a job and a business first, but it's also a way for us to have sexual exploration with other couples and with other girls. It’s kind of given us even more freedom to choose who we want to be with, and choose how we want to share and present our sexuality.”

The hypersexual couple quickly outgrew the local swinging scene, because, as Rose confesses, “we both really were looking for something that we weren't getting in the swinger side of things — frankly, the ability to be with more really hot girls and just meet really cool people! A lot of times people get into swinging later on in their life. Finding other young couples that were like-minded and people we were genuinely attracted to was always kind of a chore. So taking that into the professional side of things, it was a lot easier to find those people that I felt I could really connect with and relate to.”

Entering porn three years ago — only a year after starting their amateur OnlyFans pages and welcomed by Keiran Lee into the Brazzers fold — led to the realization of some of their sexual fantasies. “And just like that, all of my peers in the industry were people I always looked up to and wanted to have sex with,” Rose says. “And now that we're here, it's kind of a dream come true.”

Being part of an acclaimed, popular content couple is a big part of Rose’s brand within porn. In May, Rose and Fills received the 2025 XMA Creator Awards’ coveted Clip Creator Duo of the Year accolade, and Rose herself has racked up individual honors—Twistys’ September 2023 “Treat of the Month,” Team Skeet’s July 2024 “AllStar,” a 2024 AVN Best New Starlet nomination, and, most recently, VR Bangers’ July 2025 “Girl of the Month.” Rose’s closest friends in the industry also happen to be fellow porn power couples.

“We’ve really developed some good friendships, like with Elly Clutch and Jak Knife,” she explains. “They're so cool. I look up to them so much. We met them back when they were first starting doing collabs and stuff, and seeing them grow has been really awesome. I also always really looked up to Valerica Steele and her partner, Grimy. They've also been an inspiration to us, and it's really nice to be able to feel that kind of friendship with other couples who can relate to kind of what we go through. Another couple we also look up to a lot is Vanna Bardot and Codey Steele. They're awesome, really sweet, really kind people.”

Rose and Fills’ couple dynamics have also positively impacted their fan interactions. “And a lot of my fans actually really love Max, and they love our relationship,” Rose gushes. “I get a lot of other couples who are fans or even guys who say, ‘I look up to your relationship — I want to be like that!’ I have a lot of fans who like to see that we're happy, and we work together, and we can do all this cool stuff. It's so nice to see that people are noticing that. And I really hope that I can inspire more couples to explore whatever makes them happy sexually.”

Interacting with these fans is one of Rose’s favorite parts of attending conventions such as Exxxotica, X3 Expo, or AVN. Husband and wife combos are known to come up to Rose’s always lengthy signing line,s sharing that they watch her porn together and love what she and Max do.

“‘We love seeing another couple out there,’ they tell me. And that always touches my heart the most, because I feel the industry is not full of real loving couples. It's rare. I think it's really rewarding that I can inspire regular-life couples that have always been curious about different things in the bedroom, to watch porn together. I think that's so awesome. It just warms my heart.”

Being a porn performer, surprisingly, has also been a source of growth for Rose’s real-life experiment in mindful non-monogamy.

“As a couple in the industry, jealousy does happen,” she shares. “That was something we had to really learn how to navigate when we first started, and so it's kind of been something where we're always having continuous discussions about what we're comfortable with and not within the industry, and how we want to proceed when it comes to working with other people. Because at the end of the day, our relationship is the priority over the industry. We were a couple before we started together, and having that value where we try to put our relationship first has always kind of made it easier to keep it going well, rather than letting the jealousy affect it as much.”

Having the ultimate “content boyfriend” — one that is also a male talent in his own right — has proven a key asset for Rose’s rise from swinger to amateur to respected pro.

“Because we started the page together, as a couple's thing, Max has helped me out from day one with so much of the behind-the-scenes stuff,” Rose confides. “He’s my scene partner, my team partner, and he does a lot. It's really cool that I get to go through this journey with someone else.”

When Rose and Fills were first starting, she explains, everything was new, and there was so much to learn. “We were kind of just figuring it out as we went on, but now that we have more of our own style when we shoot. It’s honestly really nice to feel more secure and just know that every single video we're making is going to be a good video. Max has grown leaps and bounds in his photography skills and his skills behind the camera and all the technical things. I really grew a lot as well as a performer, just being able to express myself vocally and in actions and every different type of way. We've become a better team, as we both learned about what our strengths are in the industry.”

Does she ever watch the early amateur scenes from the GameStop Girl era or is it too cringe?

“No, it's not cringe, actually,” Rose answers. “It's really cute. It's interesting, because I feel there's just as much appeal and seduction and hotness to them. But it's definitely evolved from a very, very amateur style and just kind of pulling out the phone whenever, to something that's much more careful, you can there’s intention into the camera work and things like that. I think the style we've created has really just become very beautiful and seamless, and it's exciting to see that growing.”

This summer, Rose is most excited about the upcoming unveiling of a very special gangbang she has created and produced, lensed by the Dean of Adult Photography, Dean Capture (who has also shot this Crush of the Month pictorial).

“This is my first hardcore, gonzo-style gangbang,” Rose enthuses. “It's my second gangbang, because last year I did ‘All or Nothing: A Hailey Rose Showcase,’ which was more like a feature.”

“All or Nothing” told the story of Rose’s real-life college days, re-enacting scenes of youthful debauchery that she and Fills have retold in several popular podcasts. A teacher by legacy and training, Rose loves to explain and illustrate her tales of sexual exploration, with a characteristic Gen Z disregard for any separation between the personal and the public.

“That was my story,” she continues, “but for this gangbang, I wanted to do something purely gonzo and pretty hardcore — and just fun, hot, and rough. It was kind of the complete opposite of ‘All or Nothing,’ which was very story-based and replayed a younger, newer sexual experience with three guys. Now it’s four guys — Max Fills (of course), Nick Strokes, Axel Haze, and Victor Ray. A lot of the scenes I've done up to this point were very much based on my more natural ‘girl next door’ persona. Now I wanna show fans my darker, wilder, kind of more slutty and raw side.”

To achieve that, Rose and Capture designed a totally new experience on set. “I just love Dean’s photos, and I wanted that to be part of the vision for this. We worked together really well to make something that turned out really cool and moody. I wanted cool aesthetics. I did an all black outfit, very dark makeup, intense.”

Capture told us Rose’s performance during the gangbang blew his mind.

“I’ve had the honor of shooting Hailey a couple of times,” Capture noted. “She’s a dream to photograph. Throughout my shoots with her, she’s always thinking of the fans, constantly shooting BTS and TikToks to share with them so that they can experience the day with her. Hailey is warm and friendly — and in a body that should be illegal! I can’t wait for her fans to see the gangbang we shot.”

“I’m actually super excited to debut it,” Rose added. “I think it's going to be even more of a hit than the last gangbang. I have a lot of fun with the format because I get to be the center of attention and the lead. I also like to push on my limits a little bit and see how many guys I can take. I was a little bit nervous going into it, but it was that excited-nervous — I knew I picked out some great performers, and I really wanted to just take this as far as I could. And that's just exciting for me, because it's a little bit of a challenge, but it's also really hot.”

Another source of pride for Rose is her rapid development into an outstanding oralist for some of the industry’s very top gonzo auteurs.

“Some of my favorite scenes that I get to shoot are my oral scenes for Jonni Darkko and Evil Angel,” Rose shares. “I honestly really love doing oral scenes, because it's cool to think I can create a whole porn video and do a whole performance and production on just my blow job skills — plus, naturally, some titty fucking! I think it's really cool to use my body in sexual ways without necessarily using my vagina or my pussy. Jonni is a master at his craft — it's always a banger with him. I always feel honored to shoot with him, and it's always so much fun. Sometimes, he also brings on other male talents, like Hollywood Cash or, during the most recent one, new performer PlastererMatt, who does these crazy intense facials, and his loads are super thick and white.”

Rose is thrilled that she had a whooping three (out of nine) scenes on Darkko’s recent “Jugg Fuckers 8."

“It was basically a pretty cool mini-feature just on me — plus the cover!” she gushed. “I'm really, really proud of that DVD.”

Besides Gonzo, Rose is also steadily making inroads into acting parts, especially in the burgeoning genres of horror and sci-fi porn. She reminisces about how much fun she had shooting Parasited’s “Twist of Fate at the Throttle Thirst Tavern,” where a cleaning gig at a lugubrious biker bar alongside Xwife Karen leads to an alien parasite infection which turns them, according to the site’s description, “into a pair of horny lesbian harlots.”

“I was driving home from set just smiling,” Rose remembers. “Xwife Karen is super sweet and so fun. That was my first time doing anything horror, and I was so excited. ‘Wait — you mean I get to play with slime all day, and get cool makeup put on, and act like an animal, and you’re gonna pay me?’ I love doing anything that's anywhere near the horror genre, or something that's sci-fi, or out of the box, or kind of weird. I just love that stuff. I was obsessed with the ‘Insidious’ franchise, and ‘Cabin in the Woods,’ and old school stuff like the ‘Scream’ movies. I like the 90s time period for all that. It was definitely a vibe. I think a lot of people are trying to recover that now. They're trying to go back to that.”

Although Rose was not really an acting kid, she did a lot of dance in her youth. “I did ballet, jazz dance, tap, and so I was always on stage performing. I’ve always really loved doing that, and expressing myself by physicality. That definitely easily translates into porn when I'm expressing different emotions and things just through my body and through my movements rather than speaking.”

Rose admits it took her a while to develop her ability to dirty talk and speak a lot on camera. The sex part was fine, but the talking was always hard, she says.

“But then I worked with a lot of other performers that were really great at dirty talking, and that really brought it out of my shell,” she adds. “I just learned from amazing dirty talkers like Blake Blossom or Angela White. Max would sometimes really help me, because he would always give me little things that prompted me to say more and talk more. Most of the sex I had in my regular life before porn, there was pretty minimal talking, and so moving that into a porn performance, I was like, ‘Oh my god, shit. I need to say something!’”

Rose wants her fans to know that a big misconception about the industry is that each video is just “someone recording someone fucking you.”

“Most people don't realize how much intention and how much work goes into really building that on-camera persona into something that's sexual but still feels real and true to yourself,” she concludes.

“For all the years I’ve been developing ‘Hailey Rose,’ I’ve always wanted it to be a reflection of me and be genuinely who I am — but kind of turned up to 11.”