Kelly Shibari Nominated for ‘Best BBW Performer’ at 2014 NightMoves Awards

LOS ANGELES, CA — Kelly Shibari has earned a nomination for Best BBW Performer at the 22nd Annual NightMoves Awards, held October 12 in Tampa, FL. The plus size beauty’s performance can also be seen in New Sensation’s Best BBW Release-nominated film, Big Girls Are Sexy 4.  “It’s such an honor to be nominated again this year for NightMoves,” says Shibari. “To have won last year, when they introduced its BBW categories for the first time, makes this repeat nomination very, very humbling. I am definitely looking forward to attending the Awards in October and meeting fans and visiting with fellow industry performers, and wish all nominees my heartfelt congratulations!”  Fans may log in their vote for Kelly Shibari and Big Girls Are Sexy 4 until 8:59 pm PT / 11:59 pm ET, Monday, September 15.  The NightMoves Awards, started in 1993, is the third oldest and continuously running adult awards show in the United States. NightMoves was the first to allow fans to select the winners, making it the original Fan Based Awards, as well as the first awards show to allow online voting. In addition to the Fan Awards, the show presents Editor’s Choice awards based on reviews of DVDs in which the nominated performer has appeared.  The multiple award-winning BBW adult star and sexual figurehead for chubby Asian girls made sexy pop culture media site Fleshbot’s Top Ten Crush Object List in early 2014. The list includes superstar adult performers Bonnie Rotten and Asa Akira, as well as mainstream icons Miley Cyrus, Tina Fey, Emily Ratajkowski, and Lizzy Caplan. The Japanese performer with hazel green eyes, currently featured as the cover model for the September homepage at SheVibe.com, continues to push the boundaries, and win the hearts, of what mainstream adult consumers have long been told was sexy.  Shibari’s groundbreaking stint as the first plus-size model on the cover of a major men's magazine, on Penthouse Forum’s June 2014 issue, garnered immediate and positive mainstream media coverage from Huffington Post, Nerve, The Daily Beast, Examiner, and others. The plus size performer’s recent collaboration on the first-ever sex education film for people of size, Jessica Drake’s Guide to Wicked Sex: Plus Size, with Wicked Pictures and its contract star, writer, producer, and director, Jessica Drake, received rave reviews and sold out of its initial run.  Shibari is passionate about introducing body positive messages into the media spotlight and regularly chats with fans and industry peers via her social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook.