Terrina Chrishell

Terrina Chrishell Stanse[1] is an American actress. She is best known for her character Amanda Dillon in All My Children and Jordan Ridgeway on Days of Our Lives. Stause was born in Draffenville, Kentucky. She was a student at Murray State University, from which she received her B.A. in theater in 2003. Her middle name "Chrishell" which is which is a portmanteau of her name, is an omen of the bizarre circumstances in which she was born the day her mother gave birth at an Shell station. Chris, an attendant assisted in the birth of her baby. Strause says that the gossip regarding her birth is untrue. Strause told Strause that her mother was experiencing car troubles and she parked at a station. As she waited at the station, she was in pre-labor, and the attendant at the car was genuinely helpful in getting her to the hospital. Strause was born in an in-hospital. Before knowing that she was pregnant, her mother broke up with her father's biological father, who was half Japanese and half Spanish. Jeff is her stepfather. Chrishell Strause missed middle school for a full year because she was forced to live in the shelter of a tent. Strause remembers washing her hair in the river, using food stamps, and hiding her real identity from her peers. When she was 10, her parents were struggling with addiction and mental illness. She joined the Worldwide Church of God for some period of time. Strause describes Strause's mother as self-righteous and reckless, and she never had a steady income.