Lana Rhoades is the stage name of Amara Maple (sometimes given as Amara Lynee Maple), an American internet personality, podcaster, and former adult film performer. She rose extremely fast in 2016–2017, left the industry after roughly eight months of shooting, and has remained one of the most searched names associated with that period long after she stopped filming. She is now a mother, content creator, and critic of the industry she once worked in.
Quick facts
| Detail | What the record supports |
|---|---|
| Stage name | Lana Rhoades |
| Real name | Amara Maple (Amara Lynee Maple) |
| Date of birth | 6 September 1996 |
| Age | 30 (as of October 2026) |
| Birthplace | Chicago area / McHenry, Illinois, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Height | 5 ft 3 in (160 cm) |
| Weight | Not official. Commonly listed around 114–121 lb (52–55 kg) |
| Eyes | Blue |
| Hair | Brown |
| Measurements | Widely repeated as roughly 34-23-35 or 33-23-35 (not lab-verified) |
| Occupation now | Influencer, podcaster, mother |
| @lanarhoades | |
| Child | Son Milo, born 8 January 2022 |
Early life
She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, raised mainly by a single mother. An older sister had schizophrenia, and Rhoades has said most of the household’s attention went to caring for her, which left her feeling neglected. The family was religious — Southern Baptist, with her grandfather a preacher. She has said she no longer follows the strictest parts of that upbringing but still considers herself Christian.
As a teenager she watched The Girls Next Door and was drawn to the lifestyle. She has said she wanted to be in porn by about age 14. She was involved in cheerleading and gymnastics in school and graduated early. At 16 she was sentenced to a youth detention centre (Warrenville Youth Center) after being charged in connection with burglaries committed with people she was around. She earned her GED while there and was released after about a year for good behaviour. She has described that period as one of the better things that happened to her because it pulled her away from drugs and crime.
After release she worked as a hostess at a Tilted Kilt (and has mentioned Hooters) and also danced at a strip club before moving toward adult modelling and film.
Entry into adult film
She filmed her first professional adult content in April 2016 at age 19. Early work included a solo for FTV Girls; she then moved to Los Angeles and began shooting with major studios. Within months she was working with names such as Evil Angel, Blacked, Jules Jordan, and others. She appeared in magazines including Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler.
The speed was unusual. Industry profiles from mid-2016 already described her as booked solid. She has said her first agent was controlling and that constant work without time off contributed to physical problems. She took a break, returned with a different agent, and has said she was pushed toward more extreme scenes. She left the industry in late 2017 after roughly eight months of active shooting across two stints.
Awards and lasting visibility
Even after she stopped filming, her older scenes kept circulating. In 2019 she was reported as Pornhub’s most-searched female performer, with hundreds of millions of views. Awards from her active period include:
- 2017 AVN Award – Hottest Newcomer
- 2017 XBIZ Award – Best New Starlet
- NightMoves fan awards for Best New Starlet and Best Star Showcase
- 2018 AVN Award – Best Anal Sex Scene (Anal Savages 3)
- Later Pornhub Awards for Most Popular Female Performer
The gap between the short shooting window and the long afterlife of the videos is the central fact of her public career.
Why she left and what she has said since
She has been open about trauma, pressure, and regret. On her podcast 3 Girls 1 Kitchen and in other interviews she has described a handful of scenes as particularly traumatic — being sent to sets with much older partners or being pressured into acts she was scared of. She has said panic attacks before scenes became common near the end, and that continuing felt unsustainable. She has discouraged other women from entering the industry and has said she would give up the money and attention to undo the permanent visibility of the work. She has also said she does not control the rights to many of the old clips and cannot simply delete them.
She has described the money from studio work as limited compared with later independent income. In one interview she said she had roughly $100,000 when she quit shooting and later became a multi-millionaire through other content and platforms.
After the industry
She shifted to social media, YouTube, and subscription content. She co-hosts the podcast 3 Girls 1 Kitchen. She has worked on a lingerie collaboration, appeared in a music video, and taken on creative or marketing roles (including a short consulting stint with Brazzers). In 2021 she promoted a cryptocurrency (PAWGcoin) and launched an NFT project that raised substantial funds before she exited; the exit drew public criticism from investigators who tracked the wallet movements. She has continued to build an independent creator business and, more recently, has been linked to creative roles at newer creator platforms.
Personal life
She has a son, Milo, born 8 January 2022. She has kept the father’s identity private. She has said he is not involved in the child’s life, that she does not take support from him, and that she respects his wish to remain unnamed because she does not want to create problems for her son. Public comments from people close to her and from Rhoades herself have indicated the father is a professional basketball player; specific names (including Blake Griffin and others) have circulated widely but remain unconfirmed rumour. She has asked people to stop guessing.
Earlier relationships mentioned in reporting include a boyfriend around the time she entered the industry and a later relationship with Mike Majlak; neither is the publicly identified father of Milo.
Physical appearance notes
Height is consistently listed as 5’3″ / 160 cm in industry databases and early profiles. Weight figures float between about 52 and 55 kg depending on the site and the year; none are official medical numbers. Hair is brown, eyes blue. Body measurements appear in the usual 34-23-35 range across fan and measurement sites. Like most public figures in this space, the exact current numbers are not laboratory-verified and can change.
Net worth
Celebrity Net Worth and similar trackers have estimated figures in the multi-million range (one commonly cited number is around $5 million). She has described herself as a multi-millionaire after leaving studio work. Exact current net worth is not public.
Short version
Amara Maple, known as Lana Rhoades, was born 6 September 1996 near Chicago. She entered adult film in April 2016 at 19, shot for about eight months, left in late 2017, and still became one of the most searched performers of the late 2010s. She is 5’3″, has spoken at length about pressure and regret, and now works as an influencer and podcaster while raising her son Milo, whose father she has not publicly named.
Sources used for this post include the English Wikipedia entry, IMDb, contemporary industry profiles from 2016, and interviews she has given since leaving. Ages, weights, and net-worth figures that are not in a primary profile should be treated as estimates.