Lana Rhoades

Lana Rhoades is one of the most searched names on the internet, which is odd when you consider how short the career that made her famous actually was. She spent barely more than a year in adult films, left at the end of 2017, and has been building something else ever since: a social media audience, podcasts, brand deals and a very public take on the industry she walked away from.

Growing up near Chicago

Lana is American and grew up in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, raised by a single mother. She did some modelling before she turned to adult films.

A career that lasted barely two years

She shot her first scenes in 2016, at 19, and within months became one of the most in-demand names in the business. Then she stopped. By late 2017 she had left the adult industry, and she has since been outspoken about the pressure and the contracts new performers sign up to, often telling young women not to follow the same path.

What she does now

• Podcasts and social media: she co-hosted the podcast 3 Girls 1 Kitchen and has a large following on Instagram, X and YouTube.
• Brands: she designed a lingerie line with Yandy.
• Subscription content: like many former performers, she runs a paid subscription page.

Not everything has gone smoothly. In 2021 she promoted a cryptocurrency and launched an NFT project that was later abandoned, and the crypto investigator Coffeezilla accused her of walking away with the funds after it raised around $1.8 million. The story stuck to her name for a long time.

Family

She became a mother in January 2022, when her son was born, and has talked openly about raising him.

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