Anna Paulina Mayerhofer was born in 1989 to George Mayerhofer and Monica Todd, an elementary school teacher and stay-at-home mother, in Santa Ana, California.[2][3][4][5] Luna has said that her father raised her to follow Messianic Judaism, an evangelical movement that incorporates Jewish traditions into Protestant Christianity, and that she is "a small fraction Ashkenazi".[4][6][7][8] Members of her extended family have said her father was Catholic and that "they were not aware of him practicing any form of Judaism while Luna was growing up". Her mother has said that Luna's father was a "Christian that embraced the Messianic faith" after getting clean from drug addiction. Her grandfather, Heinrich Mayerhofer, identified as Catholic when he immigrated to Canada in 1954.[4]
Her father had Mexican and German ancestry. Her paternal grandmother was born in Hidalgo, Mexico. Her paternal grandfather was born in Germany and was in the Wehrmacht during World War II.[4] Her mother has Mexican-American ancestry,[4] although a maternal great-grandfather was the son of an American immigrant to Mexico and a native of Colima, Mexico.[9] Her two maternal great-grandfathers served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II.[4]
Luna's parents never married or lived together;[5] her father had a drug addiction problem[4] and her mother married another man when Luna was nine years old but divorced four years later.[5] Luna was raised in the Orange County cities of Santa Ana, Irvine, and Aliso Viejo, as well as Los Angeles, and has called Santa Monica her hometown.[10] She attended high school in Los Angeles.[2][4]
While she was in the Air Force, she began to study at the local college.[5] She also modeled during this period, appearing in 2013 in Sport Illustrated's online site, and briefly worked as a cocktail waitress in a gentleman's club.[5][13] She later appeared as a swimsuit model in Maxim magazine in 2014.[2][14][15][3] Luna gained a following as an Instagram influencer.[4]
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