My mom had read something online about a show on MTV about making it in the entertainment industry and I always wanted to be an actress forever. I was taking theater classes in high school and college. My mom’s like, “You should just send in a tape and just try it out.” I sent in the tape and I never thought that anyone ever, ever watched my tape, especially sending it from Snellville Georgia, which is just crazy to think that I could ever come to LA and do anything. They called me like six months later and they’re like, “We want you to come and fly to LA and try and be on the show to do the final interviews.”

I end up getting on the show. The premise was to be Andy Dick’s assistant, which I had no idea, really, who Andy Dick was when I got it. They had told us an A-List celebrity was going to help us, so I was thinking like P Diddy or Ashton Kutcher or someone like that. We get out of the limo and we’re like, “Who is this guy?” We had no idea.

The premise of the show was to be the assistant, but in reality I don’t think anyone would want to win. And then I end up winning it, which was crazy. It’s weird when you’re on the show because now, when I watch reality shows, I get it more because they isolate you. People were backstabbing people. We were literally only able to kind of talk to each other and we didn’t have a TV. It’s weird because I think people thought that the way to win was to be mean, and kind of backstabbing and twisted about it, but being nice ended up getting me ahead.

And so, I won a job on MTV, but I also got a modeling agent and everything out here from the show. So then I moved out here to work at MTV. I was sitting behind a desk and that was just not what I wanted to do at all, so I ended up leaving that job and then I just started modeling and then the modeling took me into the whole acting world. It’s ultimately what I wanted to do.

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