4 things you didn't know about Lana 

#2. Lana Never Felt Like She Fit In Anywhere

WWE Superstar Lana

Lana moved to Russia when she was only 5 years old and stayed in the country for the next 13 years. Life was difficult there, especially for an American.

Lana described people in Russia as generally unfriendly and refusing to say hello in the streets. She was criticised as being fake for smiling and told not to smile. Lana told Lilian Garcia, "People think Americans are really fake."

Lana claims that her formative years were extremely troublesome and recalls her grades lowered just because she was an American. She was never fully accepted in Russia.

Things didn't get better for Lana when she returned to the United States. The WWE Superstar often felt like an outcast, as she had to adjust to the more friendly American way of life. Lana had difficulty grasping American slang and while she was essentially a foreigner in her home country, she had no accent and looked like the average white American.

Due to her Russian roots, Lana never felt like she belonged in white middle-class America and to this day describes herself as a Russian America. Lana felt like an outsider in her birth country,

"I didn't identify with Americans. I felt foreign and I didn't fit in with a middle white class. I related to minorities. I related to black people. I related to Hispanics because I grew up a minority, but I didn't look like them because I'm not them and so then, I didn't completely fit in with them. I didn't fit in with the middle class white people."