Lana Rhoades may have bid goodbye to the adult entertainment industry, but her fan following refuses to decrease. She was once among the most famous porn stars in the world. Today, Lana has moved on in her life and cannot recognize herself in her old videos. She now prefers to be called a social media personality rather than just a pornstar.

The former porn star was born on 6 September 1996 in Illinois. She was raised in a rather conservative religious environment. Coming into the adult industry wasn’t the first shocking thing she did. She had been through quite a dark path and had even got herself sentenced to one year in prison when she was barely sixteen.

Difficult Childhood

Rhodes never minced her words whenever she was asked about her early life and how she ended up in showbiz. 

She has always said going through trauma in her childhood made some things difficult for her. She never felt quite comfortable in school and became a loner. Her classmates bullied her because she was rather tomboyish. It got so worse that she ended up dropping out of high school. She developed severe anxiety issues and hesitated to talk to anyone.

Things at home were also not great, and to get some sort of escape, she binge-watched “The Girls Next Door.” 

That show made Lana idolize the lives of the stars Holly Madison, Bridgette Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson. To learn more about this industry, she started reading Playboy magazines. 

Seeing the glamourous pictures of all these women made Lana realize this was what she wanted to do. In her podcast with Logan Paul, she revealed that at 14, she was sure about becoming an adult film personality in the future.

Troubled Teenage Years

When Lana left high school, she started hanging out with a bunch of criminals. She was dating a guy at that time who was friends with all these “hippie criminals.” 

They were mainly robbers and used to break into houses and steal. Rhodes clarified that she never stole anything, but she was once present while robbing a house. 

Someone had tipped off the police, and they all got arrested. Rhodes was sentenced to five years. 

Although she was in prison for only a year, she called it an eye-opening experience.

Most people would consider going to jail as the height of their bad luck, but Lana has called it a blessing. Before going to jail, she was hanging with the wrong crowd and doing the most hardcore drugs. After coming out of jail, she never touched drugs and refrained from associating with the same crowd. 

In jail, she realized that her boyfriend never once called her, which made her think about her past actions.

She passed the high school equivalency exam and went to college to study applied sciences when she got out. Rhodes admitted that she wasn’t a fan of studying. She only went to impress her boyfriend.