The first time she played the game in Panama’s Exile Island season, Cirie Fields was a self-proclaimed couch potato. When she returned as a favorite for Survivor: Micronesia – Fans Vs. Favorites, Cirie was a seasoned strategist.


“This time I had to play a stronger mental game,” the 37-year-old nurse from Norwalk, Connecticut, started. “On Exile Island I kind of floated for a good while before I actually had to make any moves. I felt like immediately I had to do something to benefit my game play. I mean, with the Yau-Man thing (voting him out early). I didn’t do anything that soon, not openly anyway last time. So this time I had to perform a lot more, a lot harder. And the people I was playing with – I was playing with seasoned veterans this time. So I had to step my game up.”

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