Shanna Moakler

Shanna Lynn Moakler, born March 28, 1975, is an American actress, model, and beauty pageant titleholder. She is best known for receiving national pageant honors, appearing on various reality and drama television series, and working as both a professional model and pageant director.

Moakler was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and is of German, Irish, Portuguese, and Polish descent. During her childhood, she enjoyed weekend visits to her grandfather's farm and participated in competitive roller skating for twelve years. She attended Barrington High School and moved to Miami after graduating to pursue a career in modeling, later relocating to New York City and Los Angeles.

Moakler entered pageantry at age seventeen, representing Rhode Island in the Miss Teen USA 1992 pageant before winning the Miss Teen All American title in 1993. In 1995, she was named Miss New York USA and competed in the Miss USA pageant, where she placed as first runner-up. She assumed the Miss USA crown in May 1995 after winner Chelsi Smith won Miss Universe. Moakler later expanded her pageant involvement into organizational leadership, serving as executive producer of the Miss Nevada USA pageant since 2012 and acquiring the Miss Utah USA franchise in 2018.

Her modeling career began at age fifteen, leading to appearances in publications such as Cosmopolitan and Brentwood. She signed with Playboy and was named the December 2001 Playmate of the Month, and she later featured in a Cutty Sark campaign photographed by David LaChapelle. Moakler has also participated in advocacy campaigns for PETA, including a pro-vegetarianism advertisement in 2008 and an anti-fur campaign in 2013.

Moakler began her television acting career in 1996 with appearances on series like Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. In 1998, she joined the main cast of the USA Network drama Pacific Blue, playing Officer Monica Harper for two seasons. She later starred alongside her then-husband Travis Barker on the MTV reality series Meet the Barkers, which ran from 2005 to 2006. Her television credits also include appearances on Search Party, Punk'd, Joey, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Dancing with the Stars, Entourage, Hollywood Exes, and Celebrity Big Brother, as well as hosting E!'s Bridalplasty and winning $100,000 for charity on Minute to Win It.

Moakler's personal life includes high-profile relationships with rock musician Billy Idol and professional boxer Oscar De La Hoya, with whom she has a daughter. She married Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker in October 2004, and the couple had two children before their divorce was finalized in 2008. In 2024, Moakler began dating actor Greg Vaughan.