While catching up with PEOPLE at Lollapalooza at T-Mobile\u2019s Club Magenta, the <\/a>Love Island: Aftersun <\/a>host<\/a> says she wanted to \u201cinterfere with nature\u201d while watching the drama unfold.<\/p>\n \u201cI think every girl, and I can only speak as a girl because I\u2019ve only ever been a girl, but every girl has to go through not being chosen,\u201d the 36-year-old says. \u201cEvery girl has to go through what exactly does \u2018chosen\u2019 mean to me? Do I want this?\u201d<\/p>\n Not only that, but she says they also have to learn \u201cwhat intimacy means\u201d and how to overcome \u201cfriendship hurdles.\u201d<\/p>\n Ciara Miller, Tefi PessoaCredit: Ben Symons\/Peacock via Getty<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just such a pressure cooker in that villa because a week feels like a month,\u201d she adds. \u201cSo, everything\u2019s just really accelerated and really intense.\u201d<\/p>\n Season 8 premiered in early June<\/a> and concluded with its finale on July 12, crowning winners Trinity Tatum and Bryce Alakai. <\/a>The other couples in the final four consisted of Aniya Harvey<\/a> and Carl Schmidt<\/a>, Melanie Moreno<\/a> and Sincere Rhea<\/a> and Kayda Bosse<\/a> and Zach Georgiou<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pessoa admits that she felt \u201cvery protective over\u201d the contestants, especially the women, on the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t watch a girl cry. I can\u2019t do it,\u201d she shares. \u201cKnowing that they were in the villa next door in distress, I wanted to run in there in camouflage, like a painted face. I\u2019d be like, \u2018Give me 10 minutes with her so I can talk to her.\u2019 They\u2019re like, \u2018No.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like when you watch TheWild Thornberrys, and Nigel\u2019s like, \u2018You can\u2019t interfere with nature.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018I need to interfere with nature. I need to talk to Melanie. I need to talk to Aniya, or whoever.\u2019 \u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n She feels like her job is to \u201cbe professionally myself.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE\u2019s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like it is my duty to camouflage, tuck and roll into that villa,\u201d she jokes. \u201cBut, then again, it\u2019s like when your little sister is going through something and you\u2019re like, \u2018I want to take this from you, but you have to go through this.\u2019 So, all you can really do is be evidence that it does get better.\u201d<\/p>\n Pessoa, who has been sharing content and building a following for over six years, hopes she can show others that \u201csometimes things aren\u2019t amazing, but sometimes you reach new lows and sometimes you reach new highs.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know anybody that I\u2019ve ever looked up to that is perfect, so I like to think about that too,\u201d Pessoa shares.\u00a0\u201cI think Michelle [Obama] gets mad at Barack [Obama] sometimes and probably says things she regrets. That\u2019s what helps me sleep at night.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo, being part of that as my first introduction to national television in that way, I\u2019m the luckiest little duck in the world,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n Despite it all, Pessoa shares that being a part of the Love Island production \u201cfelt like a family.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been on sets before and I\u2019ve been part of productions, but nothing that massive and nothing that felt like such a family before,\u201d she tells PEOPLE. \u201cThe only way the machine of Love Island works is if everybody works together. With Love Island, it really is a love of each other and reality TV, and wanting to have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the original article on People<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Ciara](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/9eccd3d6-b107-48de-8902-958c06bba7d9.jpg\"\/)
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