Nina Dobrev
The Vampire Diaries
Age: 22
You love her as: Katherine Pierce, a nineteenth-century vampire with “abandonment issues,” plus Katherine’s modern-high-school-student doppelgänger, Elena Gilbert.
Historical drama: “Wearing a corset kicks the wind out of you—I almost passed out once wearing it for 16 hours.”
Nylon-blend blazer, $1,290, pants, $575, both, Max Mara, at Max Mara, NYC. Leather boots, Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière, $1,275.
Nina Dobrev stares back into the camera in the “Women in Television” feature from the February 2011 issue of Elle magazine.The 22-year-old actress dished about passing out on set and why she likes working on TV a bit better than movies. Check it:
On corset dramas: “Wearing a corset kicks the wind out of you — I almost passed out once wearing it for 16 hours.”
On working in TV versus movies: “Working on TV, you have this one charracter, and you have time to explore her, create her, see her develop into different people.”
JJ/Elle
