Guide Note

Ukrainian-born Victoria Zdrok is a unique entertainment personality whose life story has bridged the US and Soviet Union, and the fields of academia, soft-core pornography and self-help. She is a Playboy Playmate, clinical psychologist, attorney, sex therapist and author.

Fast Facts

1. Born: March 3, 1973
2. Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
3. Birth name: Victoria Nika Zelenetskaya
4. Height: 5'9"
5. Measurements: 36-23-34
6. Crowned Philadelphia's "Best Beauty" in 1994

Born Victoria Nika Zelenetskaya, in Kiev, Zdrok saw the Soviet Union transition from Iron Curtain repression to Mikhail Gorbachev's liberal Glasnost reforms. In 1989, she arrived in the United States on an academic scholarship, as the first teenage Soviet foreign exchange student. By age 18, she had a BA from West Chester University in Pennsylvania—and by 21, a PhD in Clinical Psychology and a Law degree. She subsequently entered the adult entertainment industry—appearing in over a dozen issues of Playboy and becoming Penthouse Pet of the Year for 2004—and studied as a sex therapist at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Zdrok is the author of the 2007 book Dr. Z on Scoring: How to Pick Up, Seduce and Hook Up With Hot Women.