Nina Dobrev turned up the heat on Instagram over the weekend, sharing a sultry bikini snap and sauna video just three months after she and Shaun White called off their engagement. The 36-year-old actress showed off her figure in a skimpy black two-piece as she relaxed during a post-Christmas getaway.
Dobrev appeared to be enjoying some well-earned downtime as she posed inside a wooden sauna, stretched out on a bench in the heated space. Captioning the photo, which showed her arching her back and soaking in the moment, she wrote, “Mentally on airplane mode.”
Her millions of adoring followers' pulses raced as she shared a brief video via Instagram Stories of her strutting into the steam room, set against a calm, peaceful backdrop of a body of water and trees, placing down a beverage and a towel, and stretching out. She wrote along the bottom of the clip: "Detox before you retox. It's called balance."
Nina may have reminded her ex-fiancé, Olympic gold medallist snowboarder Shaun White, of what he is missing out on since they called off their engagement in early September after a five-year romance. Multiple sources told People that the "devastated" Vampire Diaries actress "wanted a family and wanted to get married - and he didn't".
However, a second insider disputed that claim, saying: "[They both] wanted marriage and kids" and that "it wasn’t just one-sided". And a pal agreed: "They both wanted marriage and children and were making plans to have a life together."
However, another insider close to Nina and Shaun, 39, said their decision to separate was a "mutual decision, and wasn’t an easy one, but it was made with love and a deep respect for one another".
Shaun popped the question with a five-carat Lorraine Schwartz diamond ring at a restaurant called The Golden Swan in New York in October 2024, five years after he and Nina were first romantically linked during the COVID-19 pandemic. A source told the publication at the time that friends of the former couple, who have never addressed the breakup, "knew it was coming and everyone is so happy for them".
The insider added: "After the proposal, they were calling and texting friends saying, 'It can't get better than this,' and were just glowing."