Phillips' experience at a swinger lounge in Atlantic City sparked a desire to enter the adult entertainment industry. With the support of friends, Phillips decided to apply and sent full body and headshots to numerous porn studios in Florida and California. In 2013, Phillips moved to Tampa, Florida to pursue her career. She began filming solo and masturbation videos as well as streaming on Chaturbate. While in Tampa, Phillips shot with Reality Kings and Mofos. Her first adult feature was the 36 minute Get a Deep Stretch an anal film with distributor Mofos. In May 2013 she shot her first scene with Reality Kings. The film Mouth To Balls was distributed by monstercurves.com. The film was later included in Reality Kings 2014 DVDMonster Curves 23 where Phillips shared the cover with Dani Daniels and Sophie Dee. From this point onwards Phillips began to feature in a wide range of best-selling DVDs including Let’s Try Anal 11 for Mofos, Safe Landings for Adam and Eve. Safe Landings was nominated for “Best Drama” at the 2016 AVN Awards, “Feature Movie of the Year” at the 2016 XBIZ Awardsand “Best Epic” at the 2016 XRCO Awards. Evil Angel and Crash for Wicked Pictures which was nominated for “Best Action/Thriller” at the 2018 AVN Awards. Hustler Video DVDLesbian Spank Inferno her amazing all-girl group sex scene with Avi Love, Britney Amber, Ella Nova, Kendra Lynn in The Seduction of Avi Love for Devil’s Film which was nominated for “Best All-Girl Movie” at the 35th AVN Awards. Over the years Phillips has amassed a devoted fanbase within the fetish community due to her impressive collection of BDSM web clips, fetish content and taboo relations titles. She has shot multiple times with popular fetish company Kink.com. On November 28, 2017 AVN announced Phillips' website laurenphillips.com was up for Best Model Website. In April of 2020 Phillips was on the Porn Stars Are People podcast hosted by Dan Frigolette.
Personal life
In a February 2018 interview with The Daily Beast Phillips opened up about the cyberbullying she has experienced on social media. The piece, which focused on porn stars who had recently committed suicide, Phillips said, “The way society looks at and treats porn stars makes us more depressed, it is hard to feel like we don’t belong or that we are second-class citizens,” Phillips continued saying “I have suffered depression because of the way people view my job. That is the worst part of this job, the way people treat me because of what I do for a living.”
