Sunny Leone

The unlikely story of a Canadian woman who became both an adult-film performer and a Bollywood star begins in the border city of Sarnia, Ont.

Because that's where Sunny Leone was born.

"Both my parents were born and raised in India, in the northern part of India, and they migrated to, actually, Sarnia," she told CBC Radio's Afternoon Drive in a recent interview.

Leone spent her childhood in the southwestern Ontario city.

"I was born there...raised in this town," she said. "I had so much fun growing up there."