January 22, 1990 / Aquarius / Age 36
Tenaya is an American-born Penthouse model, nude and glamour model. She was born on January 22, 1990 in Apple Valley, California, United States. Throughout her modeling career, she has also appeared as Tenaya Rufener.
Tenaya was crowned Penthouse Pet of the Month in August 2009, stepping into the spotlight at just 19 years old. Her measurements are 35-25-34. Tenaya has charming brown eyes, honey blond hair, and natural breasts.
Tenaya arrives in Penthouse with the kind of contrast that refuses to sit quietly on the page. She can suggest innocence one moment — polished, composed, almost untouchable — and then shift into something darker, glossier, and far more dangerous without ever losing control of the mood. That tension is what gives her image its charge. She does not choose between sweetness and provocation. She knows how to make both work at once.
What makes her especially compelling is her command of transformation. On some women, a dramatic change in styling can feel like costume. On Tenaya, it feels like revelation. In softer looks, she projects a cool, teasing elegance that draws the eye in slowly. In sharper, more provocative styling, she becomes bolder and more commanding, as if the fantasy has simply turned up its own voltage. The transition never feels forced. She carries every version of herself with the same quiet assurance, and that makes the effect all the more powerful.
Photographed by Emma Nixon, Tenaya was Penthouse Pet of the Month for August 2009, and the pictorial leaned beautifully into the duality that made her stand out. The styling was not just decorative. It became part of the editorial storytelling, showing how naturally she could move between restraint and seduction, polish and edge. That kind of range matters in a Penthouse context. A memorable Pet is not simply beautiful in one fixed register. She creates atmosphere, shifts expectations, and leaves the reader with the sense that there is always another side still waiting to appear.
What lingers about Tenaya is that she seems built for contrast in the best possible way. She feels soft and severe, poised and provocative, classic and slightly dangerous all at once. She does not flatten herself into a single fantasy. She lets the tension stay alive, then turns that tension into her signature. In Penthouse, that is exactly the kind of presence that stays with you.
Height: 5'3 (160 cm)
Weight: 117 lb (53 kg)
Breast: 35" (88 cm)
Waist: 25" (64 cm)
Hips: 34" (86 cm)
Breast type: natural
Zodiac: Aquarius
Ethnicity: caucasian
Hair сolor: blond
Eye сolor: brown