Victoria Zdrok was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Kiev, Ukraine) on 3rd March 1973. At the age of 16, she moved to the United States to study. At that time she was the first Ukrainian student officially permitted to study in the United States, and received a lot of attention from the media, as the messenger of peace and international cooperation. By the age of 18, Victoria had graduated from West Chester University summa cum laude (3.96) with a bachelor's degree in psychology. Soon thereafter, she was accepted to a highly competitive dual J.D./Ph.D. program in law and psychology. Within the next following months, Victoria found herself in Playboy magazine as Miss October 1994. Since then she has appeared in numerous foreign issues of Playboy Magazine, crowned as Philadelphia's "Best Beauty", gracing the covers of and being profiled inside "Philadelphia" magazine's August 1994 and May 1995 issues, featured numerous times on "Entertainment Tonight", "Extra!", "American Journal", "Hard Copy", "Inside Edition", "The Howard Stern Show", "AM Philadelphia", "Last Call" and other TV shows. Today Victoria resides in New York and keeps busy with her modeling career as well as working as an attorney and studying for her doctoral dissertation in clinical psychology.
She is not only a stylish beauty, but also a versatile and active woman: She is an attorney in New York and works as glamour model, appearing in fashion catalogs. She is one of the few models who have been in both Playboy and Penthouse magazine, as also did Deanna Baker, Ursula Buchfellner, Teri Weigel and Lynn Thomas (However, only Victoria and Lynn Thomas have been both Playmates and Pets of the Month). At only age 9, showed her defiance to the strict Soviet school system, by cutting her red tie (part of her school uniform) at her school's "Young Pioneers" ceremony. The tie represented the Soviet banner, and it was huge blackmark on her record. The most intellectual of the Playmates, daughter of a photojournalist and a university professor, speaks five foreign languages and was ranked as one of the top students of her class. Has a minor role in the 1999 James Bond short story "A Midsummer Night's Doom" by Raymond Benson. Playboy Playmate of the Month October 1994 Measurements: 36D-25-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine); 36C-23-34 (Source: Playmate Data Sheet) Penthouse Pet of the Month June 2002 Penthouse Pet of the Year 2004