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&& the basics
full name: aliye nisreem balik
age: thirty-two
gender: cisfemale
birth date: december 8th, 1993
hometown: istanbul, turkey
occupation: lifeguard/surf instructor
sexuality: pansexual
neighborhood: cresthill meadows
&& the breakdown
Aliye was born in Istanbul, Turkey and was raised there for the first seven years of her life. Her dad worked on boats as a deckhand so he was away a lot, leaving her to be raised mostly by her mother.
Her dad had the opportunity to captain his own ship and was moved out to the United States to Kismet Harbor, bringing Aliye and her mother with him.
It took some time to settle into the new country, but Aliye had always been extremely social and charismatic, so she integrated pretty quickly into things as she learned the culture and language.
Got certified and started working as a lifeguard during high school and has been doing that ever since. Aliye never really took to school or anything else, so college was never in the cards for her. Instead, once she graduated high school she started her own company teaching surf lessons out on the coastline.
She's a total waterbug, so you can find her on the beach, out surfing, out on her boat, anywhere near the water basically all the time.
At twenty-three she applied and competed on the show Survivor on a whim, which she ended up winning. She's used that money to buy a small plot of land on the beach that she's slowly working on building her own little beach bungalow home on.
She's since competed on other competitive reality shows, mainly the MTV Challenge. She has a hard time saying no whenever the call comes for her to go back, since she has a huge love for adventure and competition.
Aliye doesn't really put herself out there otherwise when she's at home, preferring the quiet, private life that she lives on the beach doing her own thing. You won't really ever see her on social media or anything like that.
She's very much a you have to go find her to get ahold of her kind of person and checks her phone once a day at best.
Now that she's in her 30s, her parents are trying to get her to find some direction with her life and settle down more. She's toyed with the idea of opening her own surf shack or bait shop in town, but that feels like too much commitment for her.
&& reality tv timeline
2017 - Survivor Season 36
2019 - Survivor Season 40
2021 - The Challenge Season 37
2023 - The Challenge Season 39
2024 - The Challenge Season 40
2025 - The Challenge Season 41



















