10 Reality Stars: Where They Are Now

KID NATION
Taylor DuPriest
The pageant winner, who became known for telling fellow contestants to ''deal with it!,'' joined CBS' 2007 series that saw 40 kids take over a ghost town, ostensibly fending for themselves.

I heard about Kid Nation through pageants. I didn't hear about the ghost town at first — I just heard about going away for 40 days with 40 kids without your parents. But I was surprised that everybody ended up making so much controversy that we were by ourselves, because that's not true! There were more camera crew and producers than there were kids. There was only one time I was upset with the producers — when we were fixing to kill the chickens and they were telling me to say ''Ugly chickens deserve to die'' and all that kind of stuff. I didn't realize they'd actually make it out on TV to sound that bad. But when I did see it, I was like, ''Whoa! That's not how that went.'' I wasn't okay with how they made me look. I didn't act like that the whole time. Sometimes I did, but I was 10! When the show was on TV, my parents were like, ''Taylor, did you really do that?'' And I would actually tell them how it went, if the producers told me to say that. Sometimes my friends would help me when people would come up to me and make fun of me and say ''Deal with it'' or ''Ugly chickens deserve to die.'' It's like my friends kind of knew that some of it wasn't real. Even though I was the bad person, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so I'd love to go back. It was fun.