Born to two first generation Ukranian immigrants on December 20th, 1990; Nadia's story is one of squandered potential. Her two pairs of grandparents came to America for the opportunities that it boasted and finally her parents met one another during their residency at Cedar Sinai, fell in love, got married, and soon had a brood of children starting with their first born named Nadia. The day she was born, she had the weight of the world and all of the responsibility thrust on her shoulders. Her parents were traditional, strict, and had lofty expectations of their daughter to be the bright shining light to make them proud and Nadia adhered to those expectations for the longest time. She kept her grades up, was reasonably popular in school but never treated people like they were below her, and was involved in countless school activities. She graduated in 2008 with honors and was set to go to UC Davis and go onto great things in life.
Instead, Nadia burned out after her freshman year and flunked out of college. Nadia's parents used their daughter's failure as a way to teach her siblings a lesson by cutting her off financially and only allowing her to return home to collect her belongings. It was up to Nadia to use that big brain of hers to figure out how to survive. And so, Nadia spent the better part of two years migrating up and down the California coast bouncing from apartment to apartment and from job to job.
Nadia quickly realized that she could use her feminine wiles to help her survive. The last nail in the coffin was when Nadia started working as a web cam girl to pay her way while she lived in a studio apartment in Los Angeles and somehow word got back to her parents. Then the Karpenkos decided they no longer had a daughter because a daughter of theirs would never stoop to such perverse ways to make money (Nadia maintains that if it weren't for them kicking her out, she never would've gotten a job that involved taking her clothes off for money). Nadia embraced her label as a flat out disgrace to the Karpenko name and legacy and started getting involved in more risky endeavors in order to survive (she had to admit that finally feeling confident with her body and sexuality was liberating). She put those dance lessons her parents had splurged for to use and took jobs as a cocktail waitress and eventually a dancer at a gentleman's club in Los Angeles. Nadia knew how to play by the rules but as time went on by, she started indulging too much and stopped playing it safe before she had to move back down to Huntington Beach before she dug herself into too deep of a hole.
Back in Huntington Beach and Nadia's enrolled herself in University of California at Irvine and recently completed her sophomore year. She keeps to herself and keeps her head down more often than not. Her endeavors to get money are strictly speaking legal but Nadia doesn't want to tell her classmates that she's getting her money from stripping once more as well as various modeling endeavors that aren't G-rated. Instead, she tells anyone who asks that she makes her money as a bartender and a catalog model and leaves it at that.
Personality: Once upon a time ago, Nadia was a wide eyed and obedient girl whom did whatever her parents expected of her. She had the luxury of having a good life with her family whom were very well off but at the same time, she was naive and pressured into fitting into the mold of the "perfect" daughter for two doctors who expected her to go onto great things. Nadia changed from a naive, sweet girl to someone more pragmatic who realized she had to rely on herself and herself alone in order to survive. Suddenly it wasn't about right or wrong because the world wasn't so black and white anymore. Nadia's an intelligent girl, still more book smart than street smart though she's had to learn quickly how to survive and keep her nose clean while doing so. With a habit of falling into bad habits because of her repressed upbringing, Nadia's had to learn lessons the hard way. A relatively pleasant and charming person, there are two sides to Nadia: her vivacious work personality that's looking to hustle customers for an extra twenty and knows how to use her feminine wiles to get shit done and her off the clock personality that aspires to be a nurse and help people, the girl who works a ton of odd jobs to get by. She's okay with living two lives as long as the two lives never intertwine.