Stephenie LaGrossa: "My strategy is to play exactly how I played before: don't hide my strength" + reality blurred

Stephenie LaGrossa

Stephenie LaGrossa stood out during Survivor Palau for being an incredibly strong physical player who outlasted everyone else on her tribe, and that was part of the reason why she was brought back for Guatemala. But that was five years ago, and the time has impacted her: “Third time is it for me; my body can’t take any more,” Stephenie told me. When she was asked to return, “I wasn’t like, yes!, I was like, holy crap, I’m going to do this again? … I’m a little older, I’m not as in as great shape as I was before.”

But Stephenie isn’t writing herself off yet. “I love to compete, I’m super-competitive,” she said, and she’s ready to try again. “I’m trying to go in there playing as hard as I can, as honest as I can, and as real as I can,” she said.

Although she was the runner-up on Survivor Guatemala, she thinks she has an advantage. “The fact that I never won before is huge. I know it’s my third time and I know I was one of the bigger personalities to play, and I was pretty strong,” she said, but “I think the winners will be targets, actually, because I think people, in this game, try to use any little thing they can to try to eliminate people other than themselves.”

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