Parvati Shallow

Parvati Shallow-

Born on September 21, 1982 and raised in Vero Beach, Florida, Parvati Shallow and her family moved to Atlanta when she was 11 years old. She was later educated at University of Georgia, where she received an arts degree in journalism with minors in French and Italian.

An outdoor person, Parvati enjoys being around nature and spending most of her time camping and hiking through North America's state parks such as the Tetons and Yellowstone. A true adventurer even in college, she organized a two-month backpacking trip through Europe where she and two friends visited 13 countries, sleeping in youth hostels, train stations, on beaches and park benches.

Parvati's cheap thrills include good sushi, wearing oversized jerseys, karaoke and cheering on The Dawgs. A couple of years ago, she found another of her talents in the form of boxing, and began competing in 2004. Passionate about the sport, she teamed up with some fellow boxers and formed the non-profit organization, Knockout for girls, which provides scholarships and boxing lessons for underprivileged girls. The organization recently held their first fundraised event which featured boxing matches and a fashion show. Parvati intends to carry on her mission in the organization and hold another fundraiser in February 2008.

It was a season with more backstabs, blindsides, evacuations and eliminations than ever before as Survivor Micronesia paired ten fans of the show against ten returning favorites. In the end, after 39 days and 20 castoffs, sexy flirt Parvati Shallow became the soul survivor of perhaps the most entertaining season of the hit reality show yet.

After 16 seasons of the CBS reality series, it seemed as though everything had already been done, but the producers decided to bring back some of the most beloved and infamous players of previous seasons to go head to head against die hard fans who vowed to spoil their game.

Early on, Shallow, who was a returning player from Survivor Cook Islands, joined forces with Panama alum Cerie Fields and last season's Amanda Kimmel to create a dominant force in the game. The three women used their brains and their skills of persuasion to pull off some of the most impossible strategic moves ever by eliminating the powerhouse men from the competition.

After blind-siding former ally Ozzy Lusth, the three women, along with new recruit Natalie Bolton, went on a backstabbing spree, sending man after man to the jury box.

Fields, the lovable mother of three who provided most of the comedy of season, orchestrated the demise of her fellow teammates, but after losing an unexpected final immunity to Kimmel, she was voted out, leaving only Kimmel and Shallow in the final two.

While Kimmel played a strong physical game, Shallow used her womanly charms to beguile both the men and the women of the show and wound up earning the most votes at the final tribal council.

Next season of Survivor will return to Africa and 18 new castaways will once again try to outwit, outlast and outplay each other for a chance at a million dollar prize.

Parvati Shallow