Natalie Anderson is ready to dominate another reality competition series.
Now Natalie is turning her attention toThe Challenge.
So hopefully I can keep the luck going."
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she says with a laugh.
“I don’t think that there’s a middle.”
I’m obviously a super-physical player; I got cast because of that.
MTV
People want to see me perform, so it’s a double-edged sword.
You’ve always been such a challenge beast onSurvivor.
The merging of MTV and CBS made it possible.
The MTV-Challengething kind of came out of left wing.
I got so much feedback from fans saying, “you should probably go onThe Challenge.
The show was made for you.”
I would be impossible to vote out.
I would never go home!
It just seemed like a win-win for me.
There’s a lot of pulling, a lot of tackling, and I trained specifically for that.
I just love it.
I have videos of me doing tackle practice, and I’m going to post those on Instagram.
I need to do everything in my power to run through this chick at any means necessary!"
We have really intense challenges onSurvivor, but they’re really different.
I was nervous, but that nervousness was really exciting.
But I was really excited to have a plus-one going in with Jay.
He and I touched base on the phone and I was like, “I’m your girl.
you could trust me, I can trust you.”
I was excited that he had my back.
And there was never a moment in the game that I doubted him.
All the vets were mysteries for me.
Everybody else I was just going to play by ear.
You are 24 hours a day stuck with these crazy people.
This last season ofSurvivorfor me makes my first season seem like literally a vacation.
[Edge of] Extinction was a different beast.
I went in probably 150 pounds forSurvivorand I checked out at 125 pounds.
But with all those comforts comes the dynamic of being surrounded by 30 strangers.
That’s my jam, so that was what I was most nervous about, the close-quarters living arrangements.
It was very, very, very different.
I’m the most comfortable when everybody else is uncomfortable.
You’ve now doneThe ChallengeandSurvivor, competed onThe Amazing Racetwice, survived the Edge of Extinction.
What’s the hardest show to compete on?RegularSurvivoris a piece of cake compared to Extinction.
Extinction is definitely and will probably be the hardest thing I ever have to do in my life.
I was there for 36 freaking days!
I went 48 hours sometimes without eating a single thing.
You have to just go all in.
it’s possible for you to’t win if you play afraid to lose.
The biggest thing that I did onSurvivorthat cost me $2 million was playing scared at the end.
But I played scared.
So I just knew onThe Challenge, it’s no regrets.
I’m definitely not like the otherChallengegirls where they were dressed up every day.
This is weird!"
The girls brought all these cute outfits, and all I had was workout clothes.
[Laughs] OnSurvivorandAmazing Race, I was a hot mess start-to-finish.
I’m still a hot mess onThe Challenge, though.
I knowSurvivor, I know how it works.
The politics ofThe Challengeare very different.
I’m excited to perform in a new and different social game.
The premiere will follow two nights later.
