Samantha Bender

Samantha Bender is a contestant from Survivor: Byzantium.

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Hobbies: That's a difficult one because I consider myself some kind of boring person (giggles), but I would say, probably that climbing, I'm a huge fan of extreme sports like that and also practice it makes me feel the adrenaline; also joke on reality shows, which is fun because now I'll be part of one (giggles), so I guess that I'll have a cough of my own medicine.

Pet Peeves: Usually there's complicated that something irks me, but if there's something that makes me feel really mad it's the people that threat bad other people, I can't stand the bitchy ones, and more when they act like assholes to their friends, it's a complicated story.

Three Words To Describe You: Peaceful, Positive and Feisty.

Personal Claims To Fame: I can say that I've two, that are linked, first my model contract, I feel proud of it, because I won it by my own, working hard every single day, loving the people that surrounded me and without sacrifice my integrity or something about me and second I opened a program that helps girls to enter in this world, once again learning to love themselves, I always preach that we're beautiful just the way we're and that you don't have to change nothing about you in order to succeed.

Contestant You Are Most Like: If there's one person that inspired me to apply to the show is Winter Alan from Survivor: Mauritius (or like Queen called, Mauricios giggles), I think that she's such a badass player and a real actual inspiration for everyone, and also I'll go with a couple of classics but Dean Strauss and Vanessa Saluk are two of the players that I respect the most, they're such an amazing people; and finally I'll be a bad person if I forgive Misty Lamoureux, I have a ton of respect for her. I hope end up being an inspiration like some of them.

Reason For Being On Survivor: That's such a mystery for me (laughs), because while I'm not a reality show girl, like I said it before I'm a fan of the adrenaline, I mean, don't kill me, I've seen Survivor in the past, some seasons, like the ones I listed above, but I didn't saw myself playing something like this, however it's always good go out of your comfort zone and try for new things, so yeah, why not?

Why You’ll Win: I think that I've the enough skills to go far in this game, I mean, will be a little bit difficult because there's a lot of things like backstab that doesn't go well with me, but hey, Ari from Celebrity Big Brother played a clean game and she was a masterful player, anyways, returning to the question, I have a good social game, enough to make strong bonds with everyone, and also I've a good read on people, I know when they're real and when they're lying which in my opinion is big key for play a good strategic game.