Terrina Chrishell

 Terrina Chrishell Stanse is an American actor from the United States. She is most famous for her character Amanda Dillon in All My Children as well as Jordan Ridgeway on Days of Our Lives. Stause was born in Draffenville, Kentucky. She graduated from Murray State University with a B.A. in theater in 2003. Her middle title "Chrishell" was a portmanteau name that she invented to honor the unusual birth circumstances. The mother of her child was born to the baby in an Shell station. Chris, a Shell station attendant, assisted her with her delivery. Strause says that the gossip about her birth is fabricated. Strause told Strause her mother was having car trouble and she parked at an auto repair shop. She went into pre-labor while waiting at the station, and the attendant assisted her in getting to a hospital. Strause was born at a a hospital. Before knowing that she was pregnant her mother split up with her father's biological father, who was half Japanese and half Spanish. Jeff is her stepson. Chrishell Strause was forced to be in a tent for one period of time during middle school. Strause shared her story of washing her hair by the river and hiding from her peers and how she was dependent on food stamps. When she was 10years old, her parents struggled with mental illness and addiction. Strause enrolled in the Worldwide Church of God for some time. Strause describes her mother as a self-righteous and reckless, and she never earned an income that was steady.