Surviving in the wilderness, often without food or water, is a challenge elite survivalist Laura Zerra does well. The self-proclaimed nomad is recognizable for being one of the all-time best females, appearing on multiple iterations of Discovery Channel’s Naked and Afraid reality series.
Although the reality series may have seemed like her biggest challenge yet, her experience as a hunter-gatherer and her enthusiasm for adventure was nurtured way before she appeared on Naked and Afraid.
When she is not on camera, she breaks boundaries living it out wild, almost too good for the best of adventure-packed books. So apart from being a star on Naked and Afraid, who is this adventurous woman? Here we reveal everything you need to know about Laura Zerra.
Who is Laura Zerra?
Naked and Afraid reality star, Laura Zerra, refers to herself as a nomad. However, when she is not traveling from place to place, there are two places she calls home – Missoula, Montana, and New Hampshire.
“Montana is my western state, and New Hampshire is my East Coast state. And it seems like I’m always just passing between the two of them,” she told NH Magazine.
As a child, Laura lived in Agawam, Massachusetts, with her parents Steven Zerra, an electrical engineer, and Elizabeth Zerra, a preschool teacher, and her two older sisters. According to Yankee Wikis, young Laura used to love hiking and exploring the wilderness with her father. As she grew, she began exploring coyote dens and stalked deer.
Laura Zerra went to Connecticut College, where she double-majored in anthropology and Biology and minored in Environmental studies.
During the summers, she worked at the Great Hollow Wilderness School in Connecticut, teaching primitive survival and did an internship with the Buffalo field campaign in West Yellowstone, Montana.
After college, Zerra bought a one-way ticket to Cancun, Mexico, hitchhiked, and hopped freight trains to Oaxaca to improve her survival and hunting skills.
Some of the skills she gathered from living off the grid and from her work during college included the art of primitive hunting and bow building, shed antler hunting, exploring wild places, processing her own meat, wild foraging, freediving, and spearfishing.
Is Laura Zerra married?
Apart from teaming up with YouTuber Andrew Ucles to travel Australia and learn about wildlife and hunting animals, she appeared with Jeff Zausch on the Naked and Afraid XL 60-day challenge. However, Laura has never been romantically linked to a man publicly.
In addition, she keeps her private life out of the limelight and on social media. So, if she is perhaps dating someone (or is married), she has done well in keeping it under wraps.
We guess we’ll be waiting for answers from Zerra on this one.
