May 17, 1968 / Taurus / Age 57
Traci Lords is an American-born Penthouse model, actress, former pornographic actress, and singer. She was born Nora Louise Kuzma on May 17, 1968 in Steubenville, Ohio, United States.
Throughout her modeling career, she has also appeared as Nora Kuzma or Tracy Lords.
Traci Lords was crowned Penthouse Pet of the Month in September 1984, stepping into the spotlight at just 16 years old. Her measurements are 35-23-35. Traci Lords has seductive blue eyes, honey blond hair, and natural breasts.
There are few reputations in glossy memory as combustible as hers. Born Nora Louise Kuzma in Steubenville, Ohio, she moved to California as a teenager after a turbulent childhood, swapping a given name for a stage identity that married old Hollywood elegance with television-era charisma. Her September 1984 Penthouse pictorial arrived like a provocation: youthful, camera-aware, and charged with an electric glamour that altered the magazine’s conversation.
In front of the lens she was all confidence and cool control—youthful, striking, camera-confident, a performer who became intensely sought-after in the adult-entertainment world. The stage name fit the image like couture; it suggested reinvention, a persona designed to take command under flash and haze. That mood—equal parts defiant and composed—gave her a presence that editors, photographers and audiences could not ignore.
The aftermath, however, was as consequential as the pictorial. It emerged she had entered the industry using falsified identification while underage, a revelation that precipitated one of the most serious legal crises in adult entertainment history. Authorities moved against producers and distributors, forcing the removal and destruction of vast quantities of material in which she had appeared; she was never charged, the law recognizing her as a minor at the time. Undeterred, at eighteen she began formal study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and pivoted into mainstream work—roles in John Waters’ Cry-Baby, later genre films including Blade, and television stints on series such as Melrose Place and Will & Grace. In the mid-1990s she launched a music career with the dance-chart single "Control" and later published Traci Lords: Underneath It All, which debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list and offered her account of exploitation, survival and reinvention.
Her Penthouse chapter remains pivotal, but the arc that followed—scandal to reinvention, adult fame to mainstream credibility—refuses simple summary. Traci Lords’ story is complicated, glamorous, and unavoidably public: a portrait of survival rendered in glossy print and hard-won reinvention, a life that continues to be talked about whenever the magazine’s pages are turned.
Height: 5'7 (170 cm)
Weight: 115 lb (52 kg)
Breast: 35" (88 cm)
Waist: 23" (58 cm)
Hips: 35" (88 cm)
Breast type: natural
Zodiac: Taurus
Ethnicity: caucasian
Hair сolor: blond
Eye сolor: blue