DREVESTEDT, Anastasya S.

[anastasya drevenstedt]

ANASTASYA SOPHIA DREVENSTEDT

_{IT'S NOT MUCH OF A LIFE YOU'RE LIVING. IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU TAKE, IT'S GIVEN
ROUND AND AROUND AND AROUND AND AROUND WE GO
NOW TELL ME NOW, TELL ME NOW, TELL ME NOW YOU KNOW}

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NICKNAME: ana
AGE & BIRTHDAY: 23 on june 16th
HOMETOWN: los angeles
RESIDENCE: burbank, CA
PROFESSION: competitive equestrian rider
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single

LIKES - wine, horses, wine, eventing, wine, game of thrones, guy ritchie movies, the smell of fresh cut lucerne and leather, animals, green bay packers, doctor who, fresh laundered sheets, gossip girl, ben snyder, disney movies, will ferrell, trashy romance novels, geordie shore, kit harrington.

DISLIKES - scary movies, tequila, animal cruelty, skittles, fast food, being late, jersey shore and gossip girl ending :c, ben snyder, reading, studying, school in general, being inside, cigarettes.

5 THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME -

WHY THE CITY LIFE?

i love los angeles. i've been a lot of different places, but los angeles has always been home. it's the right amount of hustle and bustle and space, you know? you probably don't unless you know where to look, but trust me i've gotten go at finding open spaces in and around the city.

DESCRIBE THE PEOPLE/FEEL OF YOUR BUILDING/NEIGHBORHOOD.

the greatest part of burbank is that there is a lot of like minded people. there are a lot of stables in the area, or house's with stables attached so no one minds when you're up feeding and mucking stalls at 6am because they're doing the same thing. there are a few more celebrities around here because it's so lovely, which can be annoying at times, but not because they are, just because of the attention that comes with them. 

WHAT CHANGES HAVE YOU MADE IN THE PAST 5 YEARS?

too many to name! the most important changes are of course that i'm an olympic competitor and i've bought and opened my own stables.

HOW CAN SOMEONE TELL IF YOU'RE LYING OR GUILTY?

i blush like crazy and i can never look you in the eye. i'm a horrible liar.

DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONAL MORALS:

i think you should live your life with integrity and honour and have some self respect. some people say i'm pretty old fashioned, but i think that there could stand to be a little more old fashioned thinking around these days.

HOW MIGHT SOMEONE ATTRACT YOUR ATTENTION?

have something important to say, be polite, be respectful, be funny.

ONE LOVES OR MANY LOVES? WHY?

one love. i'm a one guy kinda girl and i'm still learning to move onto another.

A FAVORITE KIND OF KISS?

the first kiss. 

WOULD YOU RATHER RELIVE YOUR GREATEST MOMENT OR REDO YOUR WORST MISTAKE? EXPLAIN.

i always love to relive my greatest moments, of course, being at the olympics and being surrounded by my idols and that level of competitor was just awe inspiring. of course, i can be a little nostalgic at times too and think back to all the things that went wrong with ben and i, what i could have changed and what i would have done if i could go back and do it again...

FATHER: dean drevenstedt
MOTHER: scarlett drevenstedt
SIBLINGS: katarina 'kitty' drevenstedt
EXTENDED: nil
PETS: barn cats x 4 (whiskers, meowy, kitty& puss) & house cat (koshka). dogs x 2 (sultan & pepper) warmbloods x 3 (high kingdom 'king', practical magic 'jinx' & double sambucca 'sam') thoroughbred x 2 (black tuxedo 'tux' & easy tiger 'tiger')

"my family is spread far and wide. my mother is a international doctor for medeincs san frontieres, so she travels a lot. as far as i know she's in chad at the moment, but i could be wrong. my dad is a screenwriter, but he's writing less and less these days and travelling with my mom instead. my older sister was a political sciences major and a bit of a free spirit so she's usually travelling around the world, working for ambassadors, or state officials or something like that. i'm a bit more of a homebody, i love to travel, but i prefer being grounded more. i like being at home with my animals, training. i'm from a family of high achievers so i've always felt a little left out, despite everything i've done and achieved, but with so much space between us all now, when we do come together and see each other it's really special and we're a lot closer."

honestly, i've crammed so much into my 23 years, if i were to tell you everything we'd be here for an eternity, so i'll try and give you the short version. try not to fall asleep. my sister and i were born in st. petersburg, because my father's family in russian and my mother was obsessed. literally. we grew up there until i was 4, then we moved back to the states and mom went back to working for doctors without borders. we traveled with her a fair bit, but honestly, i preferred LA. i knew my mother did amazing work and we went a lot of amazing places, but all that travelling always just made me homesick. my dad's job was a lot less stressful and a lot more exciting, if i can say that without sounding too shallow. i used to love being on set with him and even picked up a few roles myself. i gave it away at 16 though, when the pressure and the media attention started getting too much. growing up in front of a camera was one thing, growing up in front of hollywood and media and paparazzi was another and i hated the kind of negative press that would always come up.

so i went back to school and settled back into my other obsession, equestrian. it had started as a movie role and then i had begged my father for a horse and the rest is history. i've owned horses and ridden competitively ever since. i basically centred my whole life around my horses and the showing world.  i was captain on both my high school  and college equestrian teams, even though a bad accident that ended with my horse being euthanised and me with a several broken bones, including a shattered femur, broken ribs and possible spinal damage. of course, i recovered and although it took some time i regained my confidence and passion for eventing again. i missed my chance at qualifying for the 2008 olympics team while i was injured, despite being in the development squad and almost guaranteed a place. it was a bitter pill to swallow back then, but qualifying for the 2012 olympics made returning to the saddle and overcoming everything so much sweeter.

the downside to the 2012 olympics was choosing between my career and my boyfriend. ben snyder and i had had a fairytale romance, complete with heart wrenching twists and turns. he had been my best friend and secret crush since we were kids and by the age of 20 i had finally built up the courage to tell him how i felt. we were inseparable for a long time after that. i lost my virginity to him, and to this day he has been the only man i've ever loved and my longest relationship. we had ups and downs, mostly involving our careers and how they constantly tried to take us in separate directions. his dream was to move to switzerland and join the military there, while i desperately tried to stay in LA, finish college and compete. of course, there were problems, he left me to move to switzerland without telling me and broke my heart, and i cheated on him by kissing another boy when the pressure on us got to much after his return. we tried to fix things by moving in together and rushing into things instead of working it out properly, and it wasn't long before we were both unhappy and trying to be in love. in the end, we knew that we had to do what we wanted in life, and if we didn't work out in the end, then so be it. it was really tough, he was the love of my life,  but in the end he followed his dreams and i followed mine. we tried to make long distance work, but it's hard when we were both so busy. it got to the point where we were barely talking once a week and we decided to call it quits. i left for london a month later. 

the british basically had a clean sweep of the equestrian medals in london and i wasn't in the best of head spaces. since i came back i've bought a small stable in burbank and started my own competition stable after kitty and i were left a large inheritance by my grandmother. i've got two young girls competing under my stable name and they are brilliant, they'll probably even go further then me. to be honest, it's the happiest and most settled i've been for a long time. i have my animals and my stable, i'm where i want to be and i've even started seeing a guy i met at a friend's wedding last month. life is good.

ALIAS: tiana        
AGE: 24
PLAY-BY: lindsay ellingson
CITY: LA
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