Lana Burke

Svetlana Anastasia "Lana" Burke is an American television personality. She was a cast member on The Real World: New York, the first season of The Real World.

Life
Burke was born on March 15 in x|Miami, Florida to parents Bernard and Anna Burke (née Voronchenko). Her father ran a hedge fund and was an American of mixed x|Irish and x|German origin, while her mother is a housewife from Ukraine. She grew up in the x|Coconut Grove neighborhood, and is the eldest of three children; her younger sister is Marina and her younger brother is Peter.

Burke attended private schooling in Miami. She began her education at x|Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic all-girls school, before transferring to x|Ransom Everglades School, a coeducational private school, for the sixth grade. In the seventh grade, her father was arrested for insider trading and her parents subsequently divorced; afterwards, her mother returned to Ukraine with Burke and her siblings, and the family settled in x|Kiev. In Kiev, Burke attended x|European Collegium Private School, a bilingual private school. Upon arriving in Ukraine, Burke spoke only English and x|Russian, although she could not read or write Russian; after settling in, she became literate in Russian and also learned x|Ukrainian.

After graduating from school, Burke returned to the United States and enrolled in the x|University of Miami. While in university, Burke joined the x|Delta Phi Epsilon (ΔΦΕ) sorority, and graduated with a degree in marketing. After graduating, Burke launched her own cosmetics company Lana Looks.

Biography
''Born to a businessman father and his trophy wife from Ukraine, Lana spent her early years as the golden child living in the lap of luxury. When she was twelve years old, her world was turned upside down when her father was arrested for insider trading and sent to federal prison. What followed was a messy divorce and Lana leaving the United States for Ukraine with her mother and siblings, where she lived until the age of eighteen. Wanting to return to her birth country, Lana took control of her future and enrolled in the University of Miami, graduating with a degree in business and looking to become the businessperson that her father never was. ''