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“Everyone on the show said T hate drama,’
and I say ‘yeah right, that is why you are on
reality television,”’ Decker said. “The RV was
smaller than my bathroom, and things just
pop so much in that environment, more drama
than the viewer even sees.”
Decker said she was surprisingly happy
with the way she was portrayed on the show
because there is enough material to make
everybody just who they want them to be.
“You are at the mercy of the editors, and
their job is to create a storyline.”
Decker said the only slight misunder
standing was the way her relationship with
fellow cast member, Dave Giuntoli, was por
trayed.
“It was not what they made it out to be.
We became so close, and he' was definitely
my sanity on the trip,” she said.
Giuntoli admitted to MTV an attraction
between himself and Decker.
“I’m attracted to her, and she might be
be attracted to me, whatever... I mean, she
has a boyfriend right now,” he said. “We’re
in a wonderful location together, we’re in
all these exotic places ... We’re keeping it
nic^and legit because she’s got this guy
back home.”
When the show premiered, Decker said
she would receive the tape the morning that
the newest episode was to be aired. She
watched it when no one was around to pre
pare herself and make any warning phone
calls to mom and dad.
Amanda Bird, a senior agricultural jour
nalism major, has been friends with Decker
since the sixth grade. She said it was strange
to watch her friend on TV, but the portrayal
stayed true to who Decker is.
“Her personality, her energy for life and
the way she is always looking for something
new is what I love most about her,” Bird said.
“There is definitely never a dull moment
when she is around.”
As the trip was coming to a close. Decker
was counting the days because she was
ready to come home and end the “best/worst
experience” of her life that “felt like it last
ed for a year.”
The happiness she felt being home
became difficult when the opportunity for a
career in the entertainment industry came
knocking. She was faced with the difficult
decision of whether to continue college.
“I could make a quick load of money, then
go back to school, but I know my personality
and know I would not ever come back.”
Decker said. “J do feel like I am suffocating
in this town just because you see what is out
there, and I want to keep seeing the world.”
Although being in College Station some
times makes Decker want to scream, it is
home to her, she said. She will, however, be
on the first flight out somewhere immediate
ly following graduation.
Decker said she does get recognized every
day, but it does not happen in College Station
as much as in other places such as the
Houston Galleria.
“People are used to seeing me around
here, but 1 was in the Galleria and this junior
high girl started screaming when she saw
me,” she said. “I was so con
fused and did not realize what
was going on at first.”
Junior high to high school
ers, the primary age group who
recognizes Decker, is different
than the crowd that recognized
her after her first foray into the
public eye as a model in
Playboy’s Girls of the Big 12
issue and later as Playboy
Cybergirl of the month.
Looking back on posing in
Playboy, Decker said she has
mixed emotions, especially when
she thinks of her family, with
whom she is extremely close.
“I did not think things
through well enough before 1 did
it. I do not know that 1 would
have done it again,” she said.
“However, that could have been my door
opener to Road Rules because I did put that
on my application.”
from home.”
"They are my family, and 1 cannot inl
ine a day without any of those peopfc
Decker said. “I have never really woiti
somewhere where people were so close
anyone was ever in trouble, the whole!
would be behind them ready to bat.”
Even though Decker thinks that doinp
“RR vs. RW” challenge would be fun.sle
trying to stay away from reality television.
“The bottom line is if I want a careeritA
entertainment industry, 1 have to break j
reality TV ties or I am never going to belia
seriously,” she said.
Reflecting on the whole experiena
Decker feels that she learned to relaxm
what it means to choose your battles.
“In the beginning, I always hadtosj
what I thought about what everyone »s
talking about, but you just become menii
ly exhausted,” she said. “I learned to i
low out a little
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of money, then go
back to school, but I
know my personality
and know I would
never come hack... I
want to keep seeing
the world.
— Mary Beth Decker
senior agricultural
journalism major
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The photos did open the doors for other
modeling jobs, but Decker said there are neg
ative effects of doing it such as the fact that
the decision will affect her for the rest of her
life because the pictures will always be there.
As many of Decker’s former castmates
are touring colleges across the country
doing speaking tours, she is aiming for an
August graduation while working four to six
nights a week at The Tap, her “home away
them to send in a tape.
“No one who has ever been on the show
thought they would make it in a millioi
years,” Decker said.
Though it was often difficult to be fora
to see herself how other people see herb;
watching the show, Decker said she is so
grateful she was given the opportunity.
“You are forced to look at yourself in the
mirror,” Decker said. "And if you do not like
what you see, it is just a decision of ami
going to change or am I okay with myself?"
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