Victoria (Lisa Marie Varon) was born February 10, 1971, into an athletic family in San Bernardino, CA. All 3 of her older brothers were amateur wrestlers with two of them earning wrestling

scholarships to college and her brother Bobby even went on to the Pan American Games in 1983

to win a gold medal.

Picked with only a handful of other women to cheer at halftime during an NFL Pro Bowl, Victoria went on to win a bodybuilding competition, have a run as a fitness competitor and

obtain her IFBB Professional Fitness Card. She has also appeared on television in cities

nationwide as a fitness expert.

Attending UCLA and Loma Linda University and studying Bio-Med allowed her to use her Pre-Med education in an unusual manner. After receiving certifications in Cryolife Tissue Recovery Training in Vascular Tissue; and Muscular Skeletal Transplant Foundation Educational Course Completion, Lisa Marie was employed as a Human Tissue Coordinator she began working at the Inland Eye and Tissue Bank in Redlands, CA where she became a Human Tissue Coordinator. She performed medical and personal background checks on potential donors, as well as physically examining the cadavers for suitability.

Lisa made her WWF debut as one of the regularly appearing "Hos" with The Godfather. She led the "Save the Ho" campaign and was often referred to as the "Head Ho". In August 2000 she was thrown through a table and thereafter referred to as "Victoria." Pulled from telecasts in November she began training with the MCW in Memphis and OVW in Louisville.

In January 2001 rumors started appearing almost weekly about her re-debut as the 'wrestling' Victoria. The rumors continued for what seemed like forever until she finally made a semi-debut on July 7, 2002 during a Heat broadcast where she wrestled a short match and lost to Trish Stratus. She didn't appear again until a RAW broadcast on August 8, 2002 when Molly Holly introduced Victoria to Chris Nowinski and William Regal, explaining that she had been training her.

Trish Stratus made her way out to the ring for Victoria's "Official" RAW debut match, as Molly joined the commentators for some color commentary. Surprisingly Victoria defeated Trish in only her 2nd match. and went on to be a major thorn in Trish's life, even challenging for the Title Belt in the October 2002 No Mercy PPV. In the culmination of a feud lasting four months, Victoria defeated Stratus for the WWE Women's Championship in a Hardcore match at Survivor Series 2002. The following night on RAW, she defeated Stacy Keibler and debuted her finisher the "Widow's Peak."

Victoria's feud with Stratus continued for several more months, encompassing a street fight on the January 27, 2003 episode of RAW which was won by Victoria, considered by some fans to be among the best women's matches in WWE history. Varon's reign lasted until WrestleMania XIX when she lost to Stratus in a triple threat match which also included Jazz. Following the loss, it was speculated that she had dropped the title in order to allow for her to have surgery on her right knee, which she had injured some time earlier. However, instead of having surgery, Varon opted to wear a knee brace during matches, a practice she continues to this day.

On the February 23, 2004 episode of RAW, Victoria won a four-way elimination match to capture the Women's Championship for a second time. Her feud with Molly Holly reached its zenith at WrestleMania XX on March 14, 2004 , where Varon pinned Holly, who subsequently had her head shaved bald as a result of a stipulation of the match. Victoria would go on to feud with Gail Kim as champion before losing the title on June 13, 2004 at Bad Blood 2004 to a heel Trish Stratus in a four-way match which also included Gail Kim, and Lita. Following the end of the feud, Victoria continued to compete in the women's division, albeit with her on-air time greatly reduced. The releases of Gail Kim, Nidia, and Jazz left little competition in the division for Victoria.

For 2005 and 2006 Victoria made spotty appearances, but was involved in a few storylines which included losing a swimsuit competition to Christy Hemme, becoming the enforcer for "Vince's Devils", a villainous alliance alongside Torrie Wilson and Candice Michelle, and eventually turning on Torrie, and several months later on Candice.

Victoria was given a character push in November 2006 after she was booked to win a number one contender's Divas battle royal. She gained additional notoriety from the match when it was reported that her kick to Candice Michelle's face resulted in a legitimate broken nose that required surgery. Following the victory, the angle had her carry a checklist to the ring which contained the names of other Divas. Each week she checked a name off the list after defeating them in matches.

On June 17, 2007 Victoria was moved to the SmackDown brand as part of the WWE Draft. While on a tour of Europe with WWE in December 2007, Varon claimed to have legitimately broken McCool's nose. She later allied herself with her "best friend" Natalya.

In October and November 2008, Victoria found herself on the losing end of matches with the debuting Brie Bella, when Bella disappeared under the ring during matches and reappeared seemingly "refreshed," eventually revealed to be Brie swapping places with twin sister Nikki Bella.

On January 13, 2009, at a SmackDown! taping (aired January 16, 2009), it was announced she would be retiring. She lost to Michelle McCool. She dedicated her final match to the United States Armed Forces. She was in tears while announcing her retirement and departure from WWE.

After leaving WWE, she began training for a career in mixed martial arts and practiced Jiu Jitsu. She returned to WWE for one night in April 2009, when she was part of the 25 Divas battle royal at WrestleMania XXV, outlasting the five other former WWE divas, before being eliminated by The Bella Twins.

On May 24, 2009, it was officially confirmed by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) that Varon had signed a contract with the company. She debuted on the May 28, 2009 edition of TNA Impact! under the ring name Tara, later revealed to be short for "Tarantula", which tied in to her new gimmick of placing a live tarantula, named Poison, on her fallen opponents. She made her intentions known by attacking The Beautiful People after Angelina Love's match with Sojournor Bolt, making her a fan favorite.

On the July 1 edition of Impact! Tara began bringing a Tarantula with her to the ring, after winning a tag team match against The Beautiful People, she put the spider on the unconscious body of Velvet Sky. On the July 9 edition of Impact!, after Tara threatened to put her spider on Sky once again, Angelina Love agreed to put her Knockout's Title on the line. After hitting the Widow's Peak, Tara won the TNA Women's Knockout Championship and therefore became the second female wrestler to win both the TNA Womens Championship and the WWE Womens Championship (the first being Gail Kim). She lost the title back to Love two weeks later at Victory Road and then kicked referee Slick Johnson and put her spider, Poison on him due to his bad officiating during the match. She once again attacked Slick Johnson after losing a 10 knockout over-the-top-rope elimination match to Traci Brooks on the July 23 episode of Impact!. Tara then competed in a tag team with Christy Hemme in the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship tournament, where they advanced to the semi-finals beating Sojournor Bolt and Hamada in the first round, but lost to The Beautiful People of Angelina Love and Velvet Sky due to interference from Madison Rayne.

On September 24 on Impact" she teamed with ODB to challenge for the Knockout Tag Team titles against champions Sarita and Taylor Wilde but they lost after Awesome Kong interrupted and distracted her during the bout. During the following two weeks of Impact! Kong and Tara both received one-on-one Women's Knockout Championship matches from ODB, but both of them ended up losing after the other interfered in the match. At Turning Point in November Tara defeated Kong in a Six Sides of Steel match. On November 26 Tara won a ten knockout battle royal to earn herself a shot at ODB's Women's Knockout Championship at Final Resolution in December she defeated ODB to win the Women's Knockout Championship for the second time.

On the January 4, 2010 live Monday night edition of Impact! Tara lost the title back to ODB. Two weeks later at the Genesis PPV, Tara defeated ODB in a two out of three falls match to regain the title.