Before the show I was a real paperback-by-the-pool sort of...

Before the show I was a real paperback-by-the-pool sort of girl. I'd backpacked through Europe and modeled in South Africa, but I would never have ventured out on a puddle-jumper, then a bus ride, then a two-hour boat trip up a river through the jungle to see Belizean ruins. I always thought, 'Hey, I'm here to chill.'