Nastassia Bianca Schroeder is an American television personality, podcast host, fashion blogger, model and author. She is best known for her role on the reality television seriesVanderpump Rules.
Early life
Nastassia Bianca Schroeder was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to an architect father, Mark, and a jewelry designer mother, Dayna. She has two younger brothers, Hunter and Nikolai, and a younger sister, Georgianna. Her grandmother, Rosemary died at age 95 in May 2019. When she was 11, Schroeder began taking theater classes at her local high school, Mount Carmel Academy. She was the president of the drama club – Shinto Torii Kabuki, which means "God's gateway to theatre" – during her senior year of high school and was voted "Most Talented" by her senior class in 2006. When she turned 18, she moved to Hollywood and attended Loyola Marymount University, where she earned a Bachelor's degree in English writing.
Career
Television
In 2005, Schroeder appeared as a contestant on the reality game showThe Amazing Race, alongside her father Mark, her step-mother Char, and her brother Hunter. After the filming of the show, the Schroeders' house was flooded and destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. They stayed with another family from the show while they rebuilt their house. While going to school in 2008, she was on the television series Queen Bees. In 2010, she started working at Lisa Vanderpump's restaurants SUR and Villa Blanca, which earned her a spot on the reality television series Vanderpump Rules. The series follows Vanderpump's employees, as they work on building their futures and become entangled in interpersonal drama. On June 9, 2020, Schroeder and co-star, Kristen Doute were fired from the show because they reported former co-star, Faith Stowers to the police for a crime that she did not commit. In 2016, she portrayed Koening in the television film . She has also appeared on three episodes of Bravo's reality television seriesSummer House between 2017 and 2019. In November 2019, Schroeder starred in a digital series called Basically Stassi, with fiancé Beau Clark. The series is available online on Bravo's website and YouTube channel.
Fashion
Schroeder worked as a model for several years, appearing in magazines like ItalianVanity Fair, 944, and Us Weekly. She has graced the covers of numerous magazines, including Millenium, Cliché and Pacific. Schroeder introduced a capsule collection with accessories e-retailer ShopPrimadonna.com which officially launched in December 2014. "When Shop Prima Donna came to me about designing a line for them, I just knew statement necklaces were what I wanted to do. I wanted to do something that has an Egyptian vibe because I love gold but with a ladylike twist pearls and stones," Schroeder said of the collaboration. She released a clothing line in collaboration with JustFab in July 2019. The collection has two parts "Next Level Basics" and "#OOTN ".
Writing
Schroeder worked as a style critic writing for Vanderpump‘s daughter’s website, The Divine Addiction. Schroeder's book Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook was released on April 16, 2019 by Gallery Books. The book was third on the New York Times Best Seller list. She began writing a wedding column titled "Basic Bride" for Glamour magazine in January 2020.
Other ventures
Schroeder is popular on social media and endorses products such as beauty and wellness products on Instagram. She has partnered with several brands, including Taco Bell food, Botox Cosmetic prescription medicine, Bondi Sands tanning foam and bioClarity skin products. On February 1, 2019, Schroeder, Kristen Doute and Katie Maloney-Schwartz launched a wine in partnership with Nocking Point Wines called "Basic Witch Potion No. 1". Their second collaboration with Nocking Point Wines, "Basic Witch Potion No. 2" Rosé was launched on June 1, 2019. She hosts a weekly podcast titled Straight Up with Stassi. Schroeder announced that she is doing "Straight Up With Stassi LIVE" podcast tour in four cities in September 2019.
Personal life
In July 2019, she got engaged to casting agent Beau Clark after two years of dating. She previously dated Vanderpump Rules co-star Jax Taylor.
Filmography
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2016
Koening
Television film
Published works
Schroeder, Stassi. Next Level Basic: The Definitive Basic Bitch Handbook. New York: Gallery Books, 2019.
