When Blink-182 released Enema of the State in 1999, the record catapulted them to international fame – and its cheeky artwork became just as legendary as the music itself.
The cover image, which shows a sultry nurse with bright blue eyeshadow, glossy red lipstick, and a latex glove poised for action, has been burned into the memory of fans for decades.
Songs like ‘What’s My Age Again?’ and ‘All the Small Things’ cemented the album as the band’s most successful, selling more than 15 million copies around the world.
But the striking woman on the sleeve wasn’t a professional model hired for a one-off shoot.
She was Janine Lindemulder – a former adult film actress whose career and appearance have taken many twists and turns since that moment in pop-punk history.
More than 25 years later, Lindemulder is almost unrecognizable from the nurse who graced the cover.
Gone is the blonde bombshell look; in its place is a new hair color, a collection of tattoos, and a reinvention of her image.
Lindemulder has also embraced social media and runs her own OnlyFans account, which she launched in 2017.
Front and back covers of the Blink-182 album ‘Enema of the State,’ featuring porn star Janine Lindemulder. It was released on June 1, 1999 and is their 3rd studio album.
Pictured: Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker, Janine Lindemulder and Tom DeLonge
Access costs around $10 a month, and in her bio she proudly lists her credits: ‘Penthouse Pet ’87, Vivid girl, AVN Hall of Fame, Blink-182 cover model, multiple award winner including Best G/G and B/G.’
Though she was inducted into the Adult Video News Hall of Fame in 2002, Lindemulder had already attempted to step away from the industry three years earlier with hopes of working as a kindergarten teacher.
That plan never fully materialized, and by 2004 she was back in front of the camera, shooting for several studios.
Her personal life was equally eventful. She married West Coast Choppers founder Jesse James in 2002, and the pair welcomed a daughter before splitting two years later.
In 2008, Lindemulder served six months in federal prison after failing to pay $300,000 in taxes.
The visual identity of Enema of the State is largely credited to photographer David Goldman, who revealed the quirky inspiration behind Lindemulder’s latex glove.
‘Up until the very last minute, the album was going to be called Turn Your Head and Cough,’ he told Huffington Post.
‘And that’s why I came up with the idea of the glove. Obviously an enema is not really a glove type of thing. I thought it was a good visual.’
Janine Lindemulder is pictured in a more recent photo showing off a new hair color
Janine Lindemulder is seen in this 2017 photo, a far cry from her famous Blink-182 nurse persona, with blonde hair, bold tattoos and a reinvented look more than two decades after the iconic 1999 album cover
Janine Lindemulder is seen above in artwork from the 1999 album. Travis Barker, Mark Hoppus, and Tom DeLonge famously posed in nothing but their boxers
While fans might assume the cover skyrocketed Goldman’s career, the photographer himself admitted its impact was more modest than expected.
‘To be totally honest, it didn’t have the effect I thought it would. You always think there’s going to be one thing that you blow up from, but that didn’t really happen. It was just another good thing that happened, and it went in my book.’
On the back cover of the album, Travis Barker, Mark Hoppus, and Tom DeLonge famously posed in nothing but their boxers while Lindemulder loomed behind them in costume.
Decades later, both the band and the cover star remain entwined in pop culture nostalgia.
While Blink-182 continue to tour the world with a new generation of fans, Lindemulder has stepped into a different chapter of her life – though her image will always be remembered as the face of one of pop-punk’s most iconic records.
