MTV Real World Season 33: Yasmin reveals her purpose was to show that 'everyone is not the same'
How would you think your experience will turn out if you're locked up in a house with six other strangers, cut off from your regular life, with nothing but cameras following your every move? This sums up the life of contestants on MTV's 'Real World' a Facebook Watch series that recently ended with season 33. What used to be about love triangles, cuddle sessions and fights turned into a social experiment with Season 33. It featured meaningful and challenging conversations.
One contestant who made it on the series was Yasmin Almokhamad. Yasmin who was raised in Seattle amongst conservative Christian and Muslim parents currently lives in New York. She is also an openly pansexual feminist who believes her calling in life is to express herself which she does through modeling and art, as well as advocating body positivity for all genders and ages.
Throughout her journey on the show, Yasmin faced her deepest insecurities and helped other housemates who were struggling with their own body image. In an exclusive interview with MEA WorldWide (MEAWW), Yasmin spoke to us about her experience on the show, and what makes the environment on the show ripe for conflict.
Talking about her experience on the show, Yasmin said, "I get to choose the people I surround myself with and they're usually people that are like-minded as me. But with this experience, I had no control over that so I had to be patient with other people and hopefully they were also patient and understanding with me."
She said her objective for going on the reality TV show was to show people that everyone is not the same. "I felt something actually powerful with this experience because at the end of the day everybody loves learning something from one another and my whole goal going to the real world was to show people and educate people about different kinds of identities and everyone is not the same," she said.
Revealing what makes the environment on the show ripe for conflict, Yasmin shared, "That's inevitable there was definitely a lot of conflicts but that's the only human especially if you're going to be around so many different people. Everybody in the house is a very different kind of person and so there's only going to be tension until you work past that tension and you can create peace or understanding."
Shedding some light on the role she played in the house, especially during heated arguments, Yasmin said, "I thought that I was going to be like the weird queer feminist that everyone thinks is annoying and think I too much or whatever. But, when I realized I became a mediator instead and I became everybody's therapist and I didn't know how that happened. I think it's just in my nature to listen to people because I'm really curious about understanding why things happen or whatever and so by listening to people I guess that's when I realized that's what all of us wanted. Somebody to listen to us."
