Mika Tan (born Saraswati Miyoko Kop Taetafa on November 27, 1977, in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is a retired American award-winning porn star, adult model, and escort of Taiwanese, Japanese, and Samoan descent, before retiring in 2015. Born on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to a Japanese / Samoan father and a Japanese / Taiwanese mother. She was adopted at age 3 by her grandmother and her biological sister was raised by an aunt. She was raised primarily by her grandmother who was an established Hawaiian / Japanese folk dancer, singer, and proprietor of several massage parlors. Mika mother's side was full of models and musicians. Her father's side is full of military servicemen and women, including her sister who is in the U.S. Marines and helps with her official website. As a "Navy brat", Mika traveled across the United States and parts of Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa before she went to high school. Some adult distribution companies marketed fellow former porn star Loni and Mika as cousins, but it is incorrect. She is, however, related to pinup/glamour model Josie Lee. She stated on a Twitter post that Kristara Barrington is her aunt. She worked as a child model, as an extra in television, commercials, and theater, appeared in an infomercial, and at one point was a member of the Movement Company dance troupe of Guam where she performed modern jazz and ballet. She attended San Diego State University where she earned a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and an Associate's degree in Psychology.