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CJ Perry could also be finest referred to as “Lana,” the previous WWE and Total Divas star, however the Florida-born, Latvia-raised actress, dancer and stunt girl has turned her consideration to tackling Hollywood. Perry, who left the WWE in June 2021, says her food plan has not modified a lot since leaving the wrestling world. But she does admit to consuming extra nachos and having fun with a bit extra margaritas lately … at all times sparsely.
Perry was born in Gainesville, Fla. however spent 13 of her early life in Latvia, earlier than, throughout and after the nation’s 1991 independence from Russia. Perry says rising up, there was lots of Russian affect in what her household ate. “Latvians love potatoes, everything from french fries to boiled or baked potatoes,” she tells Yahoo Life. Beets are one other Eastern European staple she craves.
The 37-year-old says her mom cherished to cook dinner rooster and eggplant parmesan as a result of, “they didn’t have Italian food anywhere in Latvia.”
“They didn’t even have sushi or Chinese in the ’90s,” she provides.
Her favourite Latvian dish? Solyanka, a soup made with cured meats, olives and veggies in a wealthy broth thickened with bitter cream. Perry can be an enormous fan of borscht and beet soups, that are staples of the area. “There’s nothing like the soups in Latvia,” she says.
Outside of the wealthy and attractive soups she ate as a toddler, Perry misses Eastern European salads. One of her favorites is Olivier salad. “It’s the most delicious salad with potatoes, peas and carrots, and you can either have it with chicken, beef or vegetarian,” she explains. “And there’s eggs with mayonnaise and sour cream and it’s mixed together with parsley.”
A summertime staple was Shopska salad: tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese, olives and olive oil. Perry calls the refreshing dish “the best thing ever.”
While Perry would not shrink back from cooking, she admits her Bulgarian husband, skilled wrestler Miroslav Barnyashev, and her mother-in-law actually know their method across the kitchen and have taught her cook dinner their native dishes. “We eat a lot of lean meat, chicken or fish,” she explains, including that they use lots of spices to make up for maintaining a healthy diet. However when it comes time to splurge, they like to make Bulgarian dishes wealthy with cheese and meats. “I love cheese, that’s my weak spot,”Perry admits. One of her favourite responsible pleasure meals is Bulgarian moussaka: a “better version of Shepherd’s Pie” with meat, cheese, greens and mashed potatoes.
While Perry loves Bulgarian, Japanese, Peruvian and Lebanese meals, she’s obsessive about Mexican. “When my mom was pregnant with me, she craved burritos every single day and would eat them nearly every day,” she says. “It’s very funny to me that I love Mexican food so much.”
Perry joins Dennis Rodman, August Alsina, Stormy Daniels, Tamar Braxton, Frankie Muniz, Kim Coles and Manny MUA on VH1’s The Surreal Life, which returns to TV for the primary time since 2006 on Oct. 24. Perry spent 13 days filming the rebooted sequence, residing within the bubble of a “social experiment” in a mansion nestled within the Hollywood Hills whereas being unplugged from her cellphone and social media. She says it was one of the “insane experiences” of her life.
“The hardest part was not being able to communicate with my husband — but also not having Google,” she says. “Because there are so many things I don’t know and I use it all the time. I rely on that to become smarter and wiser every day.” She provides that taking a break from social media was liberating and he or she discovered herself extra current and having fun with the second. While on The Surreal Life set, her go-to snack was Peanut M&Ms. “You have your protein and your sugar all there,” she explains. “it will hold you over.”
Perry may even be stepping behind the digicam to direct a short-action comedy that includes herself and her husband, beneath the working title Suburban Violence. And, in a couple of weeks she’ll be launching a sequence geared towards wrestling and web audio-visual tendencies like ASMR (audio sensory meridian response) and muckbang (a present the place the host movies themself consuming). “It will be an audio and visual feast,” she says, “laced with stories, reveals and little gossip to wash it all down.”
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