'Surviving Paradise': Who is Lellies Santiago? Clothing brand founder believes in sisterhood of women
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: 'Surviving Paradise' calls for a host of physical and emotional capabilities from its contestants, and Lellies Santiago ticks all the boxes.
Lellies is a New York-based actress, model, and television personality who will endure the challenges on the Netflix show, which premieres on Friday, October 20, 2023, at 3 am ET on Netflix.
Lellies is an upcoming businesswoman who strikes a balance between her personal and entrepreneurial life. She recently launched her own clothing line and community by the name of 'BBDC', which stands for 'Bad Bitches Don't Crease'.
Lellies has described her enterprise as a 'sisterhood' that she hopes to enrich through the participation of women who have overcome the adversities of life and found hope for themselves.
Lellies' modeling career took off when she was in ninth grade. She has walked the ramp on multiple occasions, ranging from school fashion shows to hair shows. She has been featured on the cover of the popular Voyage LA Magazine. It has been rumored that Lellies is involved in a romantic relationship with Kris Kasanova.
Lellies Santiago survived on just a rice-and-beans diet on 'Surviving Paradise'
The diet Lellies had to brave on 'Surviving Paradise' proved to be much more extreme than she had initially thought. While enduring the challenges of discomfort and toil on the show, Lellies was provided with a frugal diet of just rice and beans, providing her with the much-needed carbohydrates and proteins but to a limited degree. Lellies was also required to ration the small amount of food she received over an entire week on the show.
Lellies Santiago believes loyalty will help her reclaim the villa on 'Surviving Paradise'
Lellies, along with the other contestants on the show, started her journey at rock bottom after being tricked out of the villa of luxury. Navigating one challenge after another while simultaneously forming and falling out of alliances that make or break one's chances of winning the coveted $100,000 cash prize, Lellies considers her virtue of loyalty to be the essential ingredient that shall see her through the struggle.
What is expected from 'Surviving Paradise'?
Netflix's 'Surviving Paradise' brings together twelve contestants by luring them with promises of a luxury villa, but right when they have swallowed the bait, they are thrown out of the villa and forced to the mercy of the surrounding wilderness, expected to make their own ground either by hook or by crook.
'Surviving Paradise' premieres on Friday, October 20, 2023 at 3 am ET on Netflix.