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Nina Dobrev Recalls Battling Depression After Bike Accident successful May (Exclusive)
Nina Dobrev is celebrating the tiny wins.
Seven months aft The Vampire Diaries histrion underwent genu surgery owed to a bike accident, Nina shared an breathtaking update connected her recovery.
“It’s been 7 months since my genu country and I graduated to JOGGING successful carnal therapy,” she wrote implicit a video of her grooming sessions posted to Instagram Stories Dec. 18. “Knee is getting stronger and milestones similar these whitethorn look insignificant to the mean (healthy) idiosyncratic but they marque maine consciousness similar LeBron [James].”
“It’s been a agelong travel to get here, I’m feeling precise emotional, grateful, and arrogant to beryllium wherever I americium today,” Nina—who recently got engaged to longtime boyfriend Shaun White—continued. “Still person 4.5 months to spell until I’m astatine 100% but feeling optimistic. I spot airy astatine the extremity of the tunnel!”
And portion the 35-year-old remained resilient and hopeful, her betterment proved to beryllium rather a hard journey. In fact, she precocious shared penetration into the emotional toll the mishap took connected her—especially during the lukewarm summertime months.
"With the symptom meds and the carnal symptom that you're going done and not being capable to locomotion and seeing everybody gallivanting crossed Europe connected Instagram, enjoying the summertime and I'm sitting successful bed," Nina told E! News successful August. "It was conscionable mentally, it was truly challenging. Even the symptom meds messiness with your head."
"I decidedly was successful a depression,” she added. “I had a truly hard time."
As for precisely what caused the accident? The Perks of Being a Wallflower histrion revealed that the culprit was a ungraded bike—and it was her archetypal clip ever connected one.
"I've ne'er ridden before, and it was going good for a while,” she recalled to E!. “It was close astatine the precise end, I conscionable mislaid power of the bike, and I ended up successful a wheelie. I landed connected 1 leg, and the unit of the landing snapped my knee."
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And this scary incidental caused her to reconsider her and Shaun’s different precise progressive and spontaneous lifestyle.
"I consciousness similar I person a fearfulness now. I utilized to beryllium truthful adventurous and down to bash anything,” she admitted. “I’m inactive having to relearn however to locomotion truthful the thought of getting backmost to the snowboard oregon getting connected a ungraded motorcycle ever again is decidedly not happening."
But portion Nina spends immoderate clip focusing connected her recovery, support speechmaking to look backmost astatine her and Shaun’s four-year relationship…
January 2020: Happy New Year...
Dobrev and White deed it disconnected aft they partied unneurotic with friends, including her Vampire Diaries co-stars Kayla Ewell and Candice Accola King, at the opening of the Bellagio Resort & Casino's caller supper nine The Mayfair successful Las Vegas connected New Year's Eve.
A twelvemonth later, amid the coronavirus pandemic, Dobrev would stock this photograph of her and White astatine the bash, arsenic good arsenic a video of him lifting her up Dirty Dancing-style lone to person them some topple into the snow. She wrote, "How we thought 2020 would go...how it really went."
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March 2020: Romantic Bike Ride
Dobrev and White spark romance rumors after they are spotted riding bikes unneurotic successful Malibu, Calif. A source tells E! News that the 2 began to "ease into a relationship" aft spending New Year's Eve together, adding that things "really accelerated" betwixt the two after the coronavirus pandemic broke out.
"After spending weeks unneurotic during quarantine," the root says, "Nina and Shaun person made it wide to their friends that they are a superior couple."
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May 2020: Snip Snip
The 2 marque their narration Instagram authoritative erstwhile both share a photograph of the actress trimming White's red hair. Most hairsbreadth salons closed owed to COVID-19 restrictions. Under her post, Dobrev writes, "Adding to resume: hairdresser."
Instagram / Shaun White
November 2020: Happy Thanksgiving
Dobrev and White celebrate Thanksgiving with his family, arsenic seen successful photos helium posts connected Instagram.
Instagram / Shaun White
December 2020: Road Trip!
Judging from their Instagrams, Dobrev and White vacationed unneurotic in the Zion National Park country successful Utah doubly successful 2020, successful May and successful December.
December 2020: Happy Holidays
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December 2020: "So In Love"
Just earlier New Year's Eve, different source tells E! News that the 2 "are genuinely truthful successful love."
"They openly speech astir their aboriginal together," the insider continued. "They're conscionable ace happy, and things are going truly good with them."
January 2021: Happy Birthday, Nina... Again!
Dobrev celebrated a "redo" of her 31st day connected her 32rd and White paid tribute to her with photos of the 2 sporting these looks.
October 2021: Check Mate
Alonside pal Adam DeVine, the mates dressed up arsenic characters from The Queen's Gambit for Halloween with White going arsenic as the iconic Beth Harmon and Dobrev channelling U.S. chess champion, Benny Watts.
January 2022: Snow Bunnies
Dobrev deed the slopes with her pro snowboarder emotion astatine Copper Mountain successful Colorado.
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February 2022: Last Olympics
After White finished 4th successful the Men's Snowboard Halfpipe astatine the 2022 Olympics and officially retired from competing, Dobrev expressed however arrogant she was of him.
"The extremity of 1 chapter, means the opening of an breathtaking caller 1 with endless possibilities," she wrote successful portion of an Instagram post. "You volition everlastingly beryllium the G.O.A.T. of snowboarding. Not to notation you are besides the G.(B).O.A.T. = Greatest Boyfriend Of All Time."
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May 2022: Red Carpet Debut
The mates yet went reddish carpet authoritative astatine the Top Gun: Maverick movie premiere successful London.
May 2022: Red Hot Romance
Alongside her tux-clad boyfriend, Dobrev sizzled successful a reddish Monot gown astatine the 28th yearly amfAR Gala during the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
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May 2022: Hearts Racing
The brace watched the qualifying for the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco up of the large race. For the occasion, Dobrev looked wore a chic, chalk-colored suit by Smythe.
June 2022: Fun successful the Sun
The 2 turned up the heat portion vacationing successful the Maldives.
September 2022: Birthday Boy
"I truly picked a victor [ and helium truly picked a booger ]," Dobrev wrote successful an Instagram tribute for White's 36th birthday. "Happy belated Birthday you weirdo. My weirdo. @shaunwhite."
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October 2022: Degrassi Days
What did White truly deliberation of Dobrev's cheerleading country from Degrassi: The Next Generation? The jock gave his reaction connected TikTok and proved erstwhile again they're always on each other's squads.
December 2022: Family Time
The duo celebrated the holidays with a family trip to Mexico.
January 2023: An Out-of-This-World Tribute
"What satellite are you from and volition you instrumentality maine with you?!" White wrote connected Instagram for Dobrev's 34th day during their travel to Antarctica. "Thanks for making beingness incredible! Happy day my love."
February 2023: Valentine's Day
"Life is simply a roller coaster with you," the histrion wrote connected Valentine's Day 2023. "It goes from superior to babe birding successful seconds … convey you for ever making maine smile. blessed valentine’s time @shaunwhite."
January 2024: Sweet Shout-Out
"Life with you has been my top adventure!!" White wrote connected Instagram for Dobrev's 35th birthday. "Happy day my love!!"
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March 2024: Oscars Night
The duo looked truthful crisp astatine the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party they merit their ain trophy.
Instagram / Nina Dobrev
July 2024: Happy Independence Day
The 2 celebrated the Fourth of July with respective personage friends, including Miles Teller and Keleigh Teller and Usher.
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October 2024: Engaged
Shaun and Nina announced their engagement Oct. 30, 2024. A week later, they walked their archetypal reddish carpet arsenic an engaged couple, astatine the 2024 Earthshot Prize Awards successful Cape Town, South Africa.
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