Jessie Diggins on Nina Dobrev

Together with teammate Kikkan Randall, Jessie Diggins won the first-ever country skiing gold medal for the US during the 2018 Winter Olympics. As a cross country skier, Diggins has undoubtedly made a name for herself. The athlete even wrote an autobiography detailing her athletic accomplishments and her personal health struggles in 2020. Just this March 2021, she grabbed the top place in the women’s category of the 2020-2021 FIS Cross-Country World Cup.

Diggins revealed that her celebrity crush is Canadian actress Nina Dobrev, who rose to prominence after portraying Katherine Pierce and Elena Gilbert on The Vampire Diaries. Apparently, this series is what drew Diggins to Dobrev as she considers her a badass. Interviewers also asked her to share who she wanted to see her play among the famous people, and she answered Barack Obama. Well, can we expect the lawyer and former president Obama to pop in one day?