Editing Tera Patrick (section)

==Early life==
Tera Patrick was born July 25, 1976<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AhSmSTGYSA4C&q=Shapiro |last1=Patrick|first1=Tera|last2=Borzillo|first2=Carrie| title = Sinner Takes All: A Memoir of Love and Porn|date=December 31, 2009|publisher=Penguin |isbn=9781101171424|access-date=September 1, 2015}}</ref> in [[Great Falls, Montana]] and raised near [[San Francisco, California]]. Her mother is Thai and her father is of English, Irish and Dutch descent.<ref name=SinnerTakesAll>{{Cite book|last1=Patrick|first1=Tera|last2=Borzillo|first2=Carrie| title = Sinner Takes All: A Memoir of Love and Porn Paperback|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AhSmSTGYSA4C&q=irish| publisher = Gotham Publishing| isbn = 978-1592406074| location = New York| date = 2011}}</ref><ref name=lim>{{cite book|last=Lim|first=Gerrie|title=In Lust We Trust: Adventures in Adult Cinema|year=2006|publisher=Monsoon Books|isbn=978-981-05-5302-9|page=1989}}</ref> When she was ten, her mother left her and she grew up with her father David Hopkins, a carefree [[hippie]].<ref name=SinnerTakesAll/> She took weekend classes at the [[Barbizon Modeling and Acting School]] for two years.<ref name="Hammond"/><ref name=sinner>Patrick, ch.2</ref> She has stated that she was sexually assaulted at one of her first photo shoots by the photographer. She said he "was feeding [her] champagne and Valium" until she "was getting wasted".<ref name=sinner/> Later, she spent two years in Tokyo, where "she became addicted to Valium and alcohol and spent her paychecks on shopping sprees".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2010/01/05/tera-patrick-sinner-takes-all/|title=Laid Bare: Tera Patrick, 'Sinner Takes All: A Memoir of Love and Porn'|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=November 17, 2014}}</ref> When her father learned she had become sexually active, he complained to her agency, pointing out she was underage. She was sent back to the United States, "sixteen years old and already a washed-up model".<ref>Patrick, ch.3-4</ref> At age 18, she obtained a GED, briefly studied nursing at [[Boise State University]], then received [[Emergency medical technician|EMT]] certification from a local vocational school.<ref>Patrick, ch.6</ref>