Biography: Tessa West was a porn star from Oklahoma. Tessa had brown hair (sometimes frosted platinum), hazel eyes, was 5'3" tall, weighed 114 pounds, measured 34D-25-28, had her right nostril and naval pierced, and had tattoos of "Carpe diem" on back of her neck, script on her inner left wrist, stars on her hips, a butterfly on her lower back, and a cross on her foot. Tessa was part Irish and part Native American (Creek and Cherokee). She started her career as a Hawaiian Tropic model before starting amateur porn in 2003, under the stage name Paige Addams. She began working for major studios in 2007. She died on July 11, 2009 in California of a drug overdose. She was 27.