Nina Dobrev, the 36-year-old Vampire Diaries star, set Instagram ablaze on December 27 with a stunning black string bikini photo from a lakeside sauna, captioned “mentally on airplane mode.” The serene winter setting contrasted perfectly with her toned physique, earning thousands of likes and rave comments from fans calling her “flawless” and “stunning.”Fresh from a family Christmas in Canada and her first holiday single after splitting from ex-fiancé Shaun White in September 2025, Nina is radiating confidence and self-care. With a net worth of $11 million and a diverse film career—from The Perks of Being a Wallflower to Love Hard—she’s thriving in this new chapter.

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”This poetic, fragmented description of the titular character (Dolores Haze) by the unreliable narrator Humbert Humbert is one of the most famous passages in the novel. The recent Epstein photos showing these exact lines written on a woman’s body have drawn renewed attention to the text due to the disturbing thematic parallels with Epstein’s crimes involving underage girls.