Lily LaBeau was born in Washington but spent her childhood in Seattle, Washington. At the age of nine, she relocated with her family to the quaint mountain town of Payson, Arizona. Lily began her career as a fashion model in New York City, working as a non-nude model under the alias Lily Luvs before entering the adult entertainment industry. She started performing in explicit hardcore content at eighteen in October 2009, received a nomination for the XRCO Award for New Starlet in 2010, and won the CAVR Award for New Star of the Year in the same year.