Monica Culpepper

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Wiek: 40

Plemię: Salani

Zawód: Żona gracza futbolu amerykańskiego

Powód do dumy: W 1991 zdobyłam 2 tytuły: zostałam królową University of Florida i najlepszą absolwentką kierunków kierowniczych na tym samym uniwersytecie. Ukończylam z wyróżnieniem University of Minnesota Physical Therapy School. Jestem żoną gracza, który również ukończył University of Florida i od 9 lat jest głównym napastnikiem w futbolu amerykańskim Brad'a Culppepper'a, i matką trójki piątkowych uczniów.

Życiowa inspiracja: Bez wątpienia mój mąż! Jest najciężej pracującą osobą jaką znam. On nie tylko zdobył tytuły All-American Football player at University of Florida, an Academic All-American, a Southeastern Conference Hall of Famer, and Vice President of the UF student body, lecz także zdobył tytuł magistra. Wygrał prestiżową Campbell Award, co czyni go numerem jeden jeśli chodzi o wykształconych sportowców. Potem rozpoczął karierę w zawodowym futbolu amerykańskim. Przez 9 sezonów grał z Vikings, Buccaneers, and Bears. Zdobył kolejne nagrody: All-Madden and the NFL’s Unsung Hero Award. Gdy już grał zawodowo, zdobył swój stopień naukowy na studiach prawniczych. Teraz ma własną firmę prawniczą i jest prawdziwym autorytetem i nauczycielem dla naszych i innych dzieci, które żyją w naszym otoczeniu. A najlepsze w tym wszystkim jest to, że ja mu pomogłam to wszysto osiągnąć.

Hobby: Kickboxing, turystyka, strzelanie rzutkami, snowboard, wakeboard, bieganie, czytanie i praca wolontariuszki w mojej społeczności.

Irytują mnie: Ludzie o dwóch twarzach, nie doceniający niczego i leniwi, a także nieposprzątane samochody.

3 słowa, którymi siebie opiszesz: Lojalna, wytrwała i wierna.

Zawodnik Survivora, którego przypominasz: Czuję się powiązana z Tiną Wesson, pierwszą kobietę zwycięzcę z 2001 roku, bo miała wtedy 40 lat, karierę w branży medycznej i była szczęśliwą mężatką.

Powód bycia w Survivorze: Gdy w szkole poznałam swojego męża, poświęciłam swoją karierę medyczną i marzenia i całą resztę swojego życia przeznaczyłam na bycie matką i wspierającą małżonką. Teraz nadeszła moja pora, by znaleźć się w świetle jupiterów i pokazać, z jakiej gliny zostałam ulepiona. Jestem gotowa na ten program!

Dlaczego przetrwasz w Survivorze: Jestem pełna entuzjazmu, przebywanie w moim towarzystwie jest przyjemne i jestem świetną motywarką. Jestem jak kameleon i potrafię dogadywać się z różnymi ludźmi. Jestem świetna w robieniu kilku rzeczy jednocześnie. Potrawię przetwarzać informacje i je kalkulować nawet pod wpływem silnego stresu.

Dlaczego wygrasz Survivora: Nigdy nie boję się ukrzyżowania, gdy wiem, że mogę zdobyć coś, czego chcę.

Monica mówi: Poświęciłam swoje życie, by pomóc stworzyć super gracza amerykańskiego futbolu. Gdy pojawiła się ta okazja, był to pierwszy raz, gdy mogłam zrobić coś sama dla siebie. Komfortowo się czuję przebywając na łonie natury. Umiem złapać rybę gołymi rękami.

Jeff mówi: Monica jest osobą najbardziej przystosowaną do tej gry. Sądzę, że dla niej największą przeszkodą będą ludzie, którzy powiedzą "wystarczy! miałaś już swoją szansę na zarobienie pieniędzy!". Mam nadzieję, że dadzą jej szansę, bo w przeciwnym razie szybko wyleci.

Kobra

Gienek

Zajebisty zawód ma...
Wie ktos może czy w PL można się takiego wyuczyć?Tylko ja bym wolał być mężem jakiejś typiary...

Nie lubie jej już Very Happy

Roxy

podobno niedługo będzie wolny wakat na stanowisku 'chłopaka Dody' Laughing

cofam co powiedziałam xd Laury to ona nie przypomina...

tombak90

No fakt, w tym mężu to ona jest zakochana po uszy. Ciekawe, czy konfy będą wyglądały podobnie xD

Przypomina mi jakąś polską aktorkę, chyba dosyć znaną, tylko za cholerę nie mogę sobie przypomnieć którą...

Wydaje się mieć właściwe podejście do gry, porównała się do zawodniczki, którą cenię. Prezentację uważam za udaną i zachęcającą Wink

AussieRaf

Przypomina mi Małgorzatę Pieczyńską Smile

ciriefan

A no ja nie wiem, czy tak go kocha Razz

Jak dla mnie jak ktoś prezentuje się w sposób, że wszystko jest u niego super, ma pieniądze, super męża, piątkowe dzieci i jest cudownie i cud miód i orzeszki. Z tych wypowiedzi aż zalatuje fałszem i coś czuję, ze wcale nie jest tak idealnie. To jakiś psychotyczny związek, skoro całe życie podporządkowała facetowi.

Tombak, ona porównala się do Tiny, ale z jakich powodów? Bo są w podobnym wieku, mają wykształcenie medyczne i męża Razz

Jak dla mnie ona jest straszna

Gość

Dla mnie to wygląda albo jakby się chciała pochwalić, jakie ma fantastyczne życie rodzinne i udowodnić to wszystkim, a w szczególności samej sobie, bo tak naprawdę jest nieszczęśliwa, albo ma faktycznie obsesję na punkcie rodziny, do tego stopnia, że to już niezdrowe, albo może mąż ją szantażował, żeby pisała o ich związku w samych superlatywach i pomagała mu rozwijać w ten sposób jego karierę.

frasiek

A ja mam nadzieję, że mamy tutaj do czynienia ze wspaniałą inteligentną(zrezygnowała z kariery medycznej, a byle pustak raczej nie ma opcji na robienie kariery medycznej) kobietą, która jest oddana swojej rodzinie. Jeżeli jedno z małżonków kosi grubą kasą to jest o wiele lepiej dla rodziny, jeżeli drugie nie będzie pracować, a zajmie się dziećmi.

Kobra

Arti

frasiek

Rzeczywiście trochę za dużo mówi o mężu i przez to "giną" informacje o niej samej ( w tym o jej wykształceniu). Idzie, żeby udowodnić, że nie jest tylko żoną swojego męża, więc mam nadzieję, że nie będzie ciągle gadać tylko o mężu.

Poczytałem też o Ninie, która może być bojującą feministką, a bojujące feministki nie trawią kobiet, które wybrały rolę matki i żony, więc może być konflikt, a jak będzie konflikt to pewnie jedna z nich szybko odpadnie.

tombak90

ciriefan

Insider odcinek 1 - 2 filmiki:

My Plan

Monica reveals her plans on sharing her husband's background with her tribe mates.

"My plan, 100%, is I'm going to tell people I am a physical therapist, which is the truth - I don't work - and if they ask if I'm married, I'll say yes, I'm married, and my husband is a lawyer. I will hold very close to the cuff that my husband played the NFL, because I think the minute people think you're established, you're out. Even Jimmy Johnson tried to play that card. Hey look, I'm here to help you the whole way, they're never gonna give me the million dollars, I don't need it, I'm a superfan. It didn't work. Right away, Marty said, we gotta get rid of him, people have stars in their eyes, get rid of him. Taj George, she did tell, she did say, 'I'm Eddie's wife,' and she got fourth place. If I need to use it, I will, but in the beginning, again, I think you've just gotta get out there and see what's happening."

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"More than anything, for me, I think it's about setting an example. I want to feel like I can show the young girls hey, you can be married and have teenagers and still look fabulous, and have abs, and be in good shape. To the women that are 40 - hey, we can do it. Like Eleanor Roosevelt says, "If I can give women any advice, it would be, do something that scares you every single day. It will keep you young." I think of that every day. My kids say, 'Snowboard, Mom.' 'Wakeboard, Mom.' Whatever it is. 'Go on Survivor, Mom!' I'm willing to try that adventure, for 40-year old women, to say, 'Hey, get in shape, try this.' And to the older women and men that are watching the show, 'Hey babe, get a little more like her.' To me, it's so much about having fun, a personal growth experience, truly. I've made this 9th round NFL longshot into an NFL superstud. I've made these kids into these sweet little creatures that are so accomplished and are never gonna be in our house. It's my time. How busy am I? What do I have? I'm willing to see."

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"My whole life has been about Brad and the kids. This opportunity came along and they all 4 have jumped in 100% and said, 'Mom, you've gotta do it. It's always been about us and now it's your time.' Brad said to me, 'You're special. Go out there and let some people see it. I sometimes feel bad I've smothered you and put you in this role, but it's your turn.' He grew up on an island in the Gulf of Mexico called Dog Island, where there aren't grocery stores, there aren't restaurants. You can only get there by boat. You do the stingray shuffle. There's no point in building a dock because it will be blown away in the next storm or hurricane. Everything I've learned about the outdoors in the last 20 years we've been together, he taught me. He's an Eagle Scout, my boys are on their way to being Eagle Scouts. He's a tad hair like Tarzan, and he sure wasn't going to go let Jane do this until she was ready. Something really special we did before I came was, we went to an island with no matches, and very little food, and three kids, and lived. We caught fish. Of course I grew up with him teaching me to do those things, but we fished, and got the fish, and cut down palm fronds, and made little sticks and roasted them on the fire, and I made fire with glasses and magnifying glasses and magnesium bar, and the bottoms of Coke cans. Making my tender bundle, laughing with the kids, 'Everybody get the lint out of their pockets, get the lint out of your belly buttons, it's really flammable!' Making fires. Digging stingrays and throwing castnets. He put me through his Survivor. When I reflect and I see it, it's really been a whole family experience for everybody. The kids have learned so much. My daughter especially. She's not a boy, so she's not in the Boy Scouts, although she'd like to be, but it's been a whole family commitment. The real Survivor in my house hasn't been me, for doing this, it's my guy. He's home with 3 kids, 3 football teams, 4 basketball teams, 4 baseball teams, gymnastics, piano lessons, Scouts, for a long period of time with no mama. I laughed. He said, 'Come on babe, it's your turn to go make the million. I know you can talk the talk and walk the walk. The kids know you can talk the talk, but show 'em you can walk the walk.' So that's why I'm here."

I'm Here To Win

Monica is a successful and devoted mother and wife who is set on winning Survivor.

"I'm Monica Culpepper, I'm from Tampa, Florida, I'm 41 years old. I've been married for 20 years. My husband and I met in college, kind of love at first sight, and have been married 20 years. He played football for an All-American in Florida, and Southeastern Conference Hall of Fame. I was homecoming queen in 1991, president of my sorority. We have 3 kids now. A 14 year old son named Rex, a 12 year old son named Judge, and a 10 year old daughter named Honor."

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"My husband's name is Brad Culpepper, and he played pro football for 9 years in the NFL. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings and played there for 2 years. Then he went to Tampa Bay and played there for 6 years, and to Chicago for 1 year. Had a wonderful 9 year career. It was all (I can't understand this part), and a great time."

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"You know, there's a big misconception that NFL wives are these spoiled women that have everything and just sit around and do nothing. But actually, your husband's out there on Sunday and you're surrounded by armchair quarterbacks, you're surrounded by people who have all the answers, you're surrounded by fans that boo and don't like you. Right away, you get a really thick skin."

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"NFL defensive lineman don't marry soft chicks. They just don't. I may look pretty on the outside, but I'm tough."

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"We're really devoted to our children. You only get one chance at being a good parent. There are a lot of days I think it would be so much easier to get up and go to work and let someone else deal with it. But every single thing matters to Brad and I. It matters that when they answer the phone they say, 'Culpepper residence, Honor speaking, how may I help you?' It matters to me that they shake people's hand and look them in the eye and have confidence. It matters to me that their homework was done because they understood what was happening. Any nanny, any babysitter could say, 'Get your homework done!' but it matters to me that they understood the process to learn. It matters to me that they win Tropicana Speech, and science fair, and Battle of the Books, and they're on the Math Bowl team. You only get one shot, and this is a really competitive world. It matters to me that they like music, that Monday through Friday, the TV never comes on, there's no video games, there's none of that. It would be a lot easier to say, 'Oh gosh, watch TV, I gotta go cook dinner, I gotta pay bills.' Or, 'Oh my gosh, the air conditioning just broke, we just had a hurricane, there's a flood in the house.' But that's not the way we roll. It's all about no TV, no computer games. On the weekend, you got free reign. We push our kids, we work 'em hard. But Brad, this is his second career, practicing law. His philosophy is, if it's not making me money, my kids better, or helping my teammate Monica, then I'm not interested. He really does come home at 3 o'clock in the afternoon to see if there's a lot of projects, if there's anything I can do to help. Maybe the boys wanna work out. Does anybody wanna play horse. Maybe someone just needs Dad hug. We pride ourselves on that. I really feel like as parents you want to do the best you can do. You don't want to look back and say, I wish I would have done such and such. I feel like in my house we're raising tomorrow's All-American future Presidents. We're trying."

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"I think I'm gonna take a page out of Tina Wesson's plan. It's been a while since anybody's done it. My plan was to come in and find the alpha male, kinda try to find Brad, basically. Coax his ego, tell him how good he is at everything, be his mom, be his right arm. My thought for that is I'm going to bridge the generation gap. I am old on this show. I'm 41. I may not look like it, and I'm in as just as good of shape as the women, if not better, but I need to bridge that generation gap and not be in the old people, because a lot of times they do get rid of the old people. But in challenges, I won't be dragging. Secondly, by merging, making an alliance with that alpha male, I'm kind of getting rid of that boy/girl thing. If the boys all say get rid of the girls and the girls all say get rid of the boys, I'm hopefully trying to help that. I'm also not afraid of taking a page out of Sandra's book. As long as it's not me, I'll put down whoever you want. I think I'm gonna make that first alliance with that male and then see about alliances with some other females."

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"I'm willing to do what it takes because I didn't leave the love of my life and my three kids for this long to lose. I'm here to win. I so so so have this daydream here about chasing my husband through stadiums all over the country, cheering my heart out for him, and for once, having him come to the Survivor stage with stars in his eyes and cheer for me, yell and scream my name. I will do whatever it takes to get to that. That loved one's visit is monumental to me."

ciriefan

Insider odcinek 2:

EW Deleted Scene

I volunteered to say I would do water because strategically, in the beginning, I knew I would stay hydrated if I was on water. If I leave it up to somebody else, I may not. If you get dehydrated, you get lethargic.

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That role, though...when I took it on, I thought, this will be simple. I can make water and help everybody else.

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It's a laborious process, to boil water, because you're also in charge of the fire. Then the sticks burn. Then the sticks break. Then the fire goes out. Then you're starting again because the water spilled. We're so far down on supplies compared to the guys. We don't have 2 green water containers, we don't have 4 bins. It is back and forth. The only carriers we have here are the canteens. The young people I don't think find any value that that fire has been running consistently, or that there's water in the canteens. I don't think they notice. Other people can go out fishing and come up short, and it's not as glaring. They can go out searching for bananas and papayas and come back with 3 or 4, and that's not as glaring. But if everybody goes to their canteens and there's nothing to drink, that's my neck. I just don't know...I hope everyone finds value in strength in challenges and participation in camp.