Tonya Cooley Biography
A blue-eyed blonde and sexy beauty complete with “picture-perfect” measurements and a fake rack, Tonya Cooley is most known for starring in several versions of MTV’s popular reality T.V. series The Real World and also as a semi-nude photography model.
Cooley, 5’4” and 112 pounds, was born on January, 7, 1980, in Visalia, California, but grew up in Walla Walla, Washington . She has one sister and three brothers. In 1992, when she was only 12, she was put into foster care.
She first garnered international recognition and instant fame as one of the cast members of The Real World: Chicago, the program’s eleventh season, airing in 2002. Since then, Cooley has participated in many different challenges in the show’s spin-off, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: namely, The Gauntlet in 2003, Battle of the Sexes 2 (2004), The Inferno II: Good Guys vs. Bad Asses (2005), Fresh Meat, and The Inferno III, in 2006.
Cooley has also recently participated in reality shows Kill Reality (2005) and True Life (2006).
Kill Reality featured a bunch of all-stars of reality T.V. during the making and filming of a horror movie called The Scorned, which premiered on Halloween of 2005, and starred Jenna Lewis, Steven Hill, Trish Schneider, Bob Guiney, Trishelle Cannatella, and Reichen Lehmkuhl, in addition to Cooley.
True Life is a reality T.V. documentary dealing with real-life issues of people in various situations that first aired in 1998 on MTV, and Cooley was featured in the “I’m a Reality TV Star” episode in season 8, along with Survivor star Daniel Lue.
Cooley has also posed as “Cyber Girl of the Week” for Playboy magazine, the hot and controversial men’s magazine of nude and semi-nude women founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, and has also posed semi-nude for several “The Sexiest Women of Reality TV” calendars, the latest for the year 2007.
The 2007 calendar will also feature reality T.V. female celebrities such as Ryan Starr, Sarah Kozer, Trishelle Cannatella, Bianca Smith, and Katie Doyle, and male stars such as Nehemiah Clark, Mark Long, James Rhine, Diego Currier, Alex Quinn, and Zack Stewart, as former cast members in reality shows likes The Amazing Race, American Idol, Joe Millionaire, The Real World, Temptation Island, Big Brother All-Stars, Paradise Hotel, Ultimate Love Test, and more.
Cooley is also particularly known for her breast implants, which have been the subject of much conversation during her stints on reality television. However, she has reportedly clarified that her rear end is natural and “God-given.” Let us know of updates to the Tonya Cooley biography at editor@yuddy.com |
