Terrina Chrishell

 Terrina Chrishell Stause (born July 21, 1981) is an American actress from America. She is most famous for her character Amanda Dillon in All My Children and Jordan Ridgeway on Days of Our Lives. Stause was born in Draffenville (Kentucky). She graduated from Murray State University with a B.A. in 2003. She was an actor in the theater. Her middle name "Chrishell" which is an evocative portmanteau, was an omen of the bizarre circumstances under which she was born: her mother was born at an Shell station. Chris, an attendant assisted in the birth of her child. Strause's book refutes the gossip about her birth. Strause spoke out about her mother's automobile problems and walked into an auto-gas station. She entered pre-labor while waiting at the station, and the attendant helped her to a hospital. Strause was born at an in-hospital. Her mother separated from her biological father who was half Japanese and half Spanish before she knew she was pregnant. Jeff is her stepfather. Chrishell Strause had to live in a tent throughout middle school, so she was absent for the entire academic year. Strause told of washing her hair in the river, and taking food stamps to conceal her identity from her peers. When she was 10years old, parents battled mental illness and addiction. Strause enrolled in the Worldwide Church of God for some time. Strause says her mother was having a self-righteous, free-spirited woman. Her mother did not have a steady job.