Terrina Christelle

 Terrina Christopherhell Stause was born July 21, 1982. Her most well-known role is her character Amanda Dillon in All My Children and Jordan Ridgeway on Days of Our Lives. Stause was born in Draffenville, Kentucky native. She attended Murray State University and received her B.A. in theater in 2003. The title of her middle name "Chrishell" was a portmanteau title was created to commemorate the peculiar birth situation. Her mother gave birth to her son at the Shell station. Chris, a Shell station attendant, helped her with her delivery. Strause asserts that the rumor about her birth is fabricated. She opened up about her mother's car issues, and pulled into an auto-gas station. She entered pre-labor in the station. The attendant helped her to an hospital. Strause was conceived in an in-hospital. Her mother split with her biological father, who was half Japanese and half Spanish prior to her knowing she was pregnant. Jeff is her father. Chrishell Strause missed a full year of middle school because she was confined in a tent. Strause told of her experience of hiding her identity from her classmates , describing how she was washing her hair in the rivers and applying for food stamps. The parents of Strause were struggling with addiction and mental health issues. Strause was 10 years old when she became a member of the Worldwide Church of God. Strause describes Strause's mother as self-righteous and uncontrollable, and she has never earned an income that was steady.