Maria Shrime Gonzalez has fans itching to learn more about her after her appearance on Survivor 46.
Survivor 46features over a dozen new competitors for therealityTV staple, including 48-year-old Maria Shrime Gonzalez.
That year was one of the most transformative years of my life.
I learned to thrive in an environment that was vastly different from the comfort I knew at home."
I needed sort of that bridge year, whatever that year is.
And so I just wanted to go somewhere tropical, and I wanted to learn Spanish.
And so I lived with a family and learned Spanish in four months.
I was fluent in four months.
Never spoke Spanish beforehand.
And it was a lot of growing pains.
It was painful and uncomfortable and very much in the wilderness and foraging for food and farming.
And it’s very different from my comfortable life.
And it was one of the biggest growth experiences in my life."
These came while having two separate reconstructive surgeries on her ACL and having three sons.
I had an incredible support system along the way which is crucial to making mental changes in life.
Let me be that support system for you.
Let me help you!"
Lack thereof is a big problem for me.
Which is also part of why I’m applying.
Well, before that, I was living in Los Angeles, and I hated the East Coast.
I’m like, ‘Never in my life would I ever live in New York City.’
Funnily, I’m like, ‘I need to move to New York.’
My mom’s like, ‘What are you doing?
I thought you didn’t like it.’
I’m like, ‘I need to be in New York.’
So my year contract was up.
We want to send you on tour with ‘Wicked.’'
And I’m like, ‘No, there’s something for me here.
Intuitively, there’s something I need to do here that I haven’t found yet.’
And she said, ‘Okay.’
And I don’t know, maybe a month later, I met my husband.
So intuition has always been that if I listen to it, I really listen.
It’s pretty clear."
TheSurvivor 46finale will debut on CBS on Wednesday, May 22 at 8 p.m.
ET before streaming onParamount+the following day.
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