By Melissa Powell

Reality star of “Road Rules,” renowned for her threesome on the “Gauntlet,” spoke about body image and gossiped about her fellow cast members Tuesday night.

In low rise, ripped jeans and an off the shoulder white sweatshirt, Rachel Robinson, 21, said when she appeared on the show, she knew nothing about eating disorders and didn’t realize that this was an ongoing problem with girls in our generation.

“I never really had a problem with the way I was perceived,” she said. “Then after I went on the show and I got close to people like, Aneesa and Leah, who are by no means fat, but according to American society, especially those who watch Road Rules and Real World, these people were fat, it was disgusting.”

After Robinson’s show ended, she had people approaching her asking how she kept her body in shape.

“We all view a person’s worth based on what they look like,” Robinson said.

Despite speaking under the guise of women’s rights, Robinson garnered the most attention when revealing the details from the MTV reality shows.

“After one week of being on the show, I realized that my perceptions of people were completely naïve and stupid,” said Robinson.

In the end, Robinson walked away from Road Rules learning things she never knew before.

“Road Rules taught me that I needed to come outside the box,” said Robinson. “I was with a girl for two years before I went on the show. When I was cast for the show, I didn’t know how to handle the fact that I was with a girl. I never looked at myself as a lesbian. When I was growing up, I fought really hard to never let that be me.”

After the show was taped, Robinson, who is from Miami, took a long, hard look and realized she wasn’t being true to herself. She needed to look at her relationship and accept the fact that she is with a girl and this is where she wants to be.

“The biggest thing the show taught me after watching my episodes was that I liked the person that I saw on T.V.,” she said. “It didn’t bother me that I was kissing a girl; I didn’t cringe and I didn’t want to change the channel. It didn’t bother me that my mom and the rest of my family was sitting right there, watching the show.”

Then Robinson gave some advice to students who want to be on Road Rules or Real World.

“After being on the show, I have some advice,” she said. “All you have to do is stretch outside your box by taking yourself out of your norm and the people you normally hang out with out of your comfort level and then see what kind of person you really are. This is how your character is tested.”

The audience questions revolved on name-dropping cast members and Robinson responded completely uncensored.

“They don’t call her Trashelle for nothing,” she said about fellow cast member, Trishelle.

She also said Julie’s Mormon religion is just a façade and the cast member has actually slept with many guys. She also told the audience that Sarah and Theo had sex during the Gauntlet-a storyline that never made the final cut.

“I liked how she spoke about the problems and images of people’s perceptions of each other and first impressions,” freshman Jessica Aurecchione. “I didn’t like the gossip segment. It did not relate to the whole talk on body image.”

Junior public relations major and Road Rules fan Kristen Zemeitus was excited to hear the show’s star speak.

“My favorite part was when she spoke about body image and when she talked about the other Road Rules and Real World members,” Zemeitus said.

Rachel Robinson spoke on Tuesday.