Prior to her Playmate appearance she performed as a Bunny at the Palms Playboy Club and was selected as the Cyber Girl of the Month for October 2009.

Her friend, Playmate Marketa Janska, submitted her photos to Playboy resulting in her selection as Miss July.

Hinton has also been a reporter and interviewer for event series such as Victory Poker and ESPN Top Rank Boxing.

Ivanova was born in Voronezh, Russia and raised in Feodosia, Crimea, and then as a teenager (age 16) emigrated to the U.S.[16] Prior to her pictorial, she was a student at the University of Arizona studying to earn her MBA.

[17] In addition to modeling, she is a Russian-English interpreter and works as a cage girl for the World Fighting Federation in Phoenix, Arizona.

[16] She appears in the video for DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne's song I'm The One.

[19] She began modeling at 15 years old but was convinced by Kelly Carrington, Miss October 2008, to send in photos to Playboy.