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In the world of entertainment, Dr. Victoria Zdrok is a unique and unprecedented combination of beauty, brains and brawn. The only Playboy Playmate and Penthouse Pet of the Year, she has a J.D. in law and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and speaks five foreign languages, making her a MENSA material. A self-described book worm who turned to modeling to finance her education, Victoria managed to excel in both academic and modeling worlds, defying the stereotype of a blonde bombshell.
Born in Kiev, Ukraine which was under the Communist rule as part of the former U.S.S.R., Victoria always dreamed of coming to America. Raised by anti-Communist parents, she diligently studied English with the hope of following that dream; and at the age of 16, she became the first Soviet teenager allowed to come to the United States as a high school exchange student on a full academic scholarship.
Instead of high school, she was placed in a college track, after scoring higher than 95% of college-bound American youth on the verbal portion of SAT. Seizing that opportunity, Victoria received her bachelors degree in psychology at the age of 18, and at 19, she had the honor of being accepted into a prestigious joint law and psychology graduate program hosted by Villanova Law School and Drexel University. She received her J.D. degree in law in 1997, and became a member of New York and New Jersey Bar Associations. She received her M.A., and then her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2003. Relentless in her intellectual pursuits, Victoria has recently completed her post-doctorate certification in sex therapy under the direction of one of the most prominent sex therapists Dr. Sandra Leiblum at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Concurrently with her academic career, Dr. Zdrok managed to have a flourishing career as a model. Discovered by a Playboy scout in her second year of law school, she became Playboy’s Miss October 1994. Her Playmate pictorial, entitled “From Russia with Brains” gained her instant media popularity and landed her several Philadelphia Magazine covers and Philadelphia’s Best Beauty title. She appeared in numerous foreign editions of Playboy, Playboy catalogues and Special Editions and was named Playboy’s BOL Readers' Choice Model in 1998. To capitalize on her popularity as a Playmate, Victoria personally designed her pioneering internet site, www.PlanetVictoria.com, which now features over 10,000 pictures and videos of her and the most sought-after centerfolds and pin-up models, commanding an extensive fan support. Following the suggestion of her fans, she posed for Penthouse, and in June 2002, she became Penthouse Pet of the Month. Being the overwhelming choice of both the fans and the editorial staff of Penthouse, she was elected Penthouse Pet of the Year for 2004. In addition to her work as a pin-up icon, Victoria has numerous credits as a model for bridal fashions, lingerie and romance covers, as a featured guest on radio and TV shows, as an actress in commercials and movies, and as a spokes model for many products and services.
Besides her popularity as a smart sex symbol, Dr Victoria Z is quickly gaining notoriety as a sexpert through her magazine articles and radio interviews. She writes a column for Penthouse Forum on sexuality and the law, and her first book, an analysis of the role of fantasy in human sexuality, will be out at the end of this year. To extend the concepts of her book, Dr. Zdrok is also developing what should prove to be the definitive relationship site on the internet, Love-Sex-Dating.com. Her ultimate goal is to host her own radio or TV show on love, sex, dating and relationships in the 21st Century.
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Victoria Zdrok
Playmate of the Month - October 1994
