Tera Patrick Net Worth

Tera Patrick's Quotes

• [Interview with Roger T. Pipe, July 2000] I was kind of dipping my feet in the water with the Andrew Blake film. Then I decided I wanted to work with men. In my personal life I am not attracted to women at all. I can admire a beautiful woman, but I didn't feel comfortable working with women on that level. I treat the business like a business because I have a business mind. I really enjoy my work and my scenes and I think that's part of the reason why I haven't gotten burned out. I've been able to pick and choose to a great extent and that helps. Since I do have a nursing career to fall back on, I am not really forced to be in the business. I stay because I truly enjoy the work.
• [Interview with Roger T. Pipe, July 2000] I did the fashion modeling in New York until I was 18, then I took four years off to go to school in Idaho. I got my degree in nursing. I'm an RN and have a BS in Microbiology. I wanted to attend the University of Southern California. That's why I moved out here. I got into modeling for financial reasons. I started doing the adult side after I was introduced to Suze Randall. I was a Penthouse Pet and I was in Playboy as well. I just started getting covers and centerfolds and it was a natural progression into videos. I had always had a fantasy about working in front of the camera. My first movie was by a man named Andrew Blake and it was a very softcore-type movie. I was easing my way into things and did some simulated stuff with other girls.
• To be really honest with you, I'm not really a fan of porno. It was definitely something I had fantasized about, like being in a movie, being in a porno movie. I just never thought that it would get this big. I hadn't even seen a porno till I was like 18, and I just remember the guy in it was Tom Byron, and I was like, "He's hot!" And to this day I've never worked with Tom. God bless you, Tom. But he's a nice guy and I'd really like to work with him if my contract and his contract permits.
• I'm absolutely not repulsed by women; I'm not sexually attracted to women - there's a difference. I love men. I love making love to men, and in my personal life I've never been bisexual, and I have no desire to be bisexual. I do like beautiful women like everybody else.
• [on informing her family of her porn career] Actually the conversation was last year at Christmas. I was like "Dad, I'm in the business," and he actually already knew. He had an idea because I started out doing nude modeling and I started out doing softcore, so it was kind of a [slow] transition. It was something that he kind of expected.

Interesting Facts about Tera Patrick

1. Mother is Thai; father is Caucasian (English/Dutch).
2. Has a degree in Microbiology
3. Is a registered nurse
4. Started her own internet talk-show, "The Tera Patrick Show", during the fall of 1999. She invites adult-film stars, directors and producers on to talk about the porn business.
5. (12/1/01) Teamed up with Salma Hayek for an appearance at Edwards Air Force Base (CA) to entertain the officers.
6. Can speak fluent Hungarian.
7. Presented the 2nd Empire Awards Show on 22 February 2002.
8. Engaged to rock star/actor, Evan Seinfeld in October 2002.
9. Caused quite a stir in the adult film industry in December 2002 when she announced her retirement from performing in adult movies, despite having roughly 5 years left on contact with adult film company Digital Playground.
10. Returned to the adult film industry after a one-year break by signing with Vivid Video. The deal calls for her to appear in three movies for Vivid over the next two years and she will perform with her husband Evan Seinfeld and other women only. (December 2003)
11. Started her own production company, "Teravision."
12. Has opened an agency "The Tera Patrick Agency."
13. Began modeling when she was discovered at age 13 in San Francisco.
14. Named #57 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).
15. Trained to become an emergency medical technician from the American Institute of Health Technology.
16. Received an undergraduate degree in biology from Boise State University.
17. Is in a relationship with Tony Acosta since 2010. They have a daughter together.
18. Gave birth to her 1st child at age 35, a daughter named Sophia Evelia Acosta on February 25, 2012. Child's father is her boyfriend, Tony Acosta.