Pro Wrestling Real Life Stories: Episode 3 - Lana, Rusev, his real-life fight, Russia, Bulgaria and the American Dream

#8 Lana -- Singer, Dancer, Model, Actress, and wrestler?!

Lana is an accomplished singer, model, actress and dancer

Lana is undoubtedly a woman of many talents; having time and again described herself as an outgoing adventurist. Lana recalled that after returning to the States from Latvia around the age of 17-18, the lifelong ballet dancer immediately began pursuing a career as a pro-dancer--with the intriguing part being that, despite not possessing a great deal of worldly experience at the time, she stepped out of her comfort zone and pursued knowledge of several other dance forms such as break-dancing, et cetera.

Anecdotes:

Lana was a part of the girl-band "No Means Yes", and worked as a professional dancer for several troupes in Hollywood. She spoke about working several odd jobs during her time as a model and actress--revealing to Chris Jericho that she'd often times have to sleep in her car due to the lack of gigs during her rise to the top.

Moreover, Lana zoomed in on the fact that it was WWE that approached her during the Divas search a few years ago; and she started off in the company's developmental territories alongside talents such as Alexa Bliss, JoJo Offerman and Eva Marie. Lana added that she made a huge impact on WWE executive Triple H, when she cut a promo on the latter in Russian and later spoke perfectly fluent English as well...The WWE hired her after a few interviews and put her through a grueling boot camp, as they did with Bliss and Offerman--during which Lana took her first pro-wrestling bump, and realized that the road ahead wasn't going to be easy...