Tera Patrick Story

Tera Patrick — arguably the number one porn star in the world today — is a divine and rare mixture of elegance, fashion, and smoldering sensuality. Her exotic natural beauty, perfect skin and voluptuous curves place her in an erotic galaxy all her own. She has transcended hardcore to mainstream celebrity, emerging as the millennium’s first authentic global sex symbol.
Born in Great Falls, Montana, to an American Army doctor father of English and Dutch descent and a pure Thai Mother, Tera moved around quite a bit as a child both in the U.S. and overseas, gaining a valuable, early understanding of different peoples and cultures. At the tender age of 13, she was spotted by a scout on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco and immediately enrolled in the venerable Barbizon Modeling School. Soon after, Tera signed with Morning Sun, an international division of the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency. An overnight success in both print and runway, she spent several years as a working model in Japan and Europe.
Upon returning to the U.S. after immense success overseas, Tera felt compelled to give something back and removed her high heels long enough to enroll in Boise State University where she received an undergraduate degree in Biology. Finding helping others truly fulfilling, Tera pursued a career in medicine by achieving a degree as an emergency medical technician from the American Institute of Health Technology. She landed a job as a nurse, the sexiest girl in white her hospital had ever seen.
Even though Tera genuinely enjoyed nursing, her family, friends and co-workers, convinced her to get back into modeling. She soon found herself at an open audition for Playboy and was selected from among a thousand ambitious and gorgeous ladies for both the magazine and Playboy TV. In the blink of an eye, Tera Patrick was gracing the covers of virtually every important men’s publication including Hustler, Club, Swank, Velvet, High Society and Cheri. She remains the only woman to ever grace the covers of Playboy and Penthouse simultaneously and she still holds the laudable position of Publisher, Genesis Magazine as well as Sex Editor for the UK edition of FHM. And to this day, she is the only erotic performer to appear on the cover of the domestic FHM.
A hopeless exhibitionist, Tera further explored her sensuous side and in late 1999, stepped onto the big and small screens, accepting roles in various nude and soft core features like The seduction of Maxine and other ‘skin-a-max’ soft-core flicks. Then In 2000 she appeared in her first hardcore adult feature Aroused, directed by adult visionary Andrew Blake. Since then, her XXX-star has risen faster than any performer in recent history. And her naughty notoriety spread as the co-host of Playboy Night Calls, 411.