At age 18, Ann hired a photographer to shoot a set of nude photos of her. She worked as a professional mud wrestler in Hollywood, California before becoming one half of the touring strip club feature act Blondage in the early 1990s with Janine Lindemulder.[2][self-published source] Their success led to their own issue of the Carnal Comics comic book title (which also published a Julia Ann solo comic, co-written by her), as well as offers to join the pornographic film industry.[3]

In the 1990s, Ann performed for Vivid Video alongside Lindemulder.[4] She was under contract to Wicked Pictures in 2006,[5] but in May 2007 she posted on the members section of her website that she had not renewed her contract with Wicked