Carly Villanueva

**Carly Villanueva** is a contestant from EXILED 1.

Carly for the majority of the game played a very lowkey game, she didn't make much moves, or caused waves in the game, she was moreso sailing through the game for the most part, her most notable interaction was her brief interactions with Macey, and Masami. Come Episode 8, Carly was EXILED, and had to face Damien in the elimination challenge to where she had lost, but there was no hope lost for Carly, as she won her way back into the competition immediately afterwards, she managed to stay out of danger for a little bit until Episode 11 where she was EXILED once again, having to face Masami in the elimination challenge to where she had lost and got eliminated for the second time, making her the 4th member of the jury.

## Biography

Carly is born to a shoe maker mother and a caseworker father. She becomes the youngest of 5 children, having 3 brothers and 1 sister. She is born during the month of December in Georgia. Carly is baptized to the Catholic church where her Aunt is her Godmother and her Great Uncle is her Godfather. Family members become concerned for Carly as they see her staring off into space or looking at things behind them and then begins to start crying at random times. This lasts until Carly turns 5.

By age 6, Carly begins to wander off from her kindergarten class causing concerns from the teacher as she always went to a specific tree. It was later found out that a woman hung herself at that same tree during the early 1700’s (wild, I know). By age 9, Carly develops an interest in the supernatural after finding a book at her school’s library called Encyclopedia Horrifica. At age 11, Carly steals her father's camera and goes around the neighborhood taking photos of the scenery instead of playing with the kids. After 2 months, Carly finally catches something. A distorted white outline by her neighbors house. As Carly investigated further, she felt the air around her grow cold but she felt safe. In the presence of something loving. Carly looked in the reflection of the window seeing an older woman holding Carly by her shoulders with a tender smile on her face. Carly smiled back at her and then the entity disappeared before her. She told her family about it and they didn’t believe her. Blaming the white distortion for a bad lens. Her older brothers make fun of her. From that day on, Carly vowed to capture what she saw in the window with full visibility.

At age 13, Carly begins full research reports of paranormal happenings and opens up the first supernatural investigators club at her middle school. She was bullied for this as many thought she was crazy. But a few students believed in her and joined her club. Thus began the Atlanta’s Otherside Club. At age 15, Carly is admitted into a super duper fancy high school and after the success of her club she is offered to join an already existing club for paranormal investigation called the Truth Seekers. By this time Carly discovers beauty and fashion as well and starts dressing more maturely as she previously wore glasses and her frizzy hair naturally. At age 17, Carly becomes very active at her high school as she became apart of the gymnastics team and a Co-VP of the Truth Seekers Club. She regularly investigated with her club with her first investigation with them is at an abandoned amusement park where they were able to capture disembodied EVP’s and thermal drops on some of the equipment they were able to purchase from funding.

At 18, Carly’s biggest year happens to her as she becomes Captain of the Gymnastics Team, has her first boyfriend, and is now the President of the Truth Seekers. The Truth Seekers gained a reputation around Atlanta for investigating places like asylums, abandoned colony areas, hotels, and even castles. A popular ghost hunting show stopped by in Atlanta and talked to the club, especially Carly about the happenings of the asylum they investigated as the ghost hunting crew was going to investigate there as well. Carly gave such a theatrical and compelling interview that the ghost hunting team invited her and her crew on the investigation to show them the area. This becomes the most famous episode of the show as Carly was able to communicate fully with the spirits there, receiving an insane amount of evidence that confirmed the haunting of the asylum and the existence of other world figures. With the success of the episode the production company of the ghost hunting show reached out to the Truth Seekers and offered a web series opportunity for Carly and 3 other members.

Carly noticeably being the only woman leading the show. And production began after Carly and her crew graduated with honors from their high school. After a month into filming for the web series, Carly realized she missed her cycle and feared the worst. Running off to a pharmacy restroom, her worst fear was confirmed. She was pregnant at 19. This was devastating for Carly as she didn’t want to leave filming, her chance to shine. Instead she decided to keep her pregnancy a secret and informed her boyfriend though that he was the father. Seeing she didn’t cheat. Carly pondered on different alternatives for the fetus, she didn’t know what to do. Finally, filming finished with no more trouble and Carly’s stomach began to become noticeable. She confronted her family and told them what happened. And her father then asked, “What can we do to help?” Which made Carly cry. The kindest words she had ever heard in a time of conflict and stress. She considered an abortion as the best option for her. But after a few nights of thinking over it.

Carly decided that she wanted to keep the baby, thinking that this was a sign to her that she could overcome the challenge of having a child and leading a ghost hunting team. Self-pride in the end was why she kept her child. The ability to multitask both work and a baby. Carly’s web series premieres and does pretty well, reaching #1 on YouTube Trending and the premiere episode reached 14 Million Views within 3 weeks. This began Carly’s invitations to other YouTubers houses and carpet events. This caused Carly anxiety, however, as she didn’t know how the world would take it for her being pregnant at 19. Nonetheless she braved the world and showed off her baby bump and gorgeous gowns and became upfront about her pregnancy while she was collaborating with other YouTubers seeing that Carly was twitter stan worthy for her witty social media presence. There was criticism, however, she was vocal about how she’s able to do both because that is the power of women today. At age 20, Carly gave birth to her son, Jeremiah Villanueva. Much to the surprise of the family, the hospital room was flooded with friends and fans of Carly, wishing her support and good health for her and her child.

[insert post pregnancy, more celebrity stuff of Carly, and pre production planning for second season of her show, and then auditioning for EXILED at age 22]