Kim Powers

Kimberly "Kim" Powers Bell is a contestant from.

Profile
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Kim Powers was born and raised in Bridgewater, New Jersey, where she lived with her family prior to attending college. She graduated from Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications. Currently, she is a freelance marketing executive for an athletic wear company and is living in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.

Powers's favorite hobbies include running, biking, boxing, growing herbs and vegetables, cooking and entertaining. She describes herself as extroverted, tenacious and competitive.

Kim Powers was engaged to be married for over a year, but less than three weeks before the big day, she called it off. Her birth date is December 3.

Survivor: Africa
Kim Powers was placed on the Samburu tribe. Kim didn't like Frank Garrison's military style of Leadership on the way to camp. Kim was the one to make fire, using the lens of the telescope in the medical kit. Samburu won immunity and fire. However, the tribe was quickly divided by age. The Older castaways viewed the younger ones as lazy. Conversely, the Younger members felt the older ones were overworking and overbearing. Samburu won the next two challenges. In order to prevent a tie, The Older alliance tried to sway Silas Gaither. However, Silas chose the younger alliance.

One morning, the young gotten a rude awakening from the older members, doing camp chores. Kim helped Lindsey Richter make friendship necklaces for themselves, Silas and Brandon Quinton. Kim P. and Brandon sat out of the Reward Challenge, which the opposing tribe Boran won. During a conversation, Carl Bilancione claimed to own some expensive cars. This caused the younger member to view him as less needing of the money. For the Immunity Challenge, the castaways had to make a Distress Signal. During the challenge, Lindsey collapsed due to dehydration. Linda Spencer walked in on the scene and alerted the older members. Samburu lost immunity because their distress signal was too much like the other villages. The vote was a deadlock tie between Lindsey and Carl. Lindsey won the tiebreaker, sending Carl home and giving the youth the majority. Boran won the next Immunity Challenge. Silas tried to get the older member to vote against Lindsey to make sure she was the only ones with past votes against her. However, they voted against Silas instead. Linda was the one voted out in a 4-3 vote.

After Linda's ouster, there was a heated argument on why Frank and Teresa Cooper gone against the plan. Kim felt they was punishing them for not telling who was going. Teresa counter that they stuck together because they wasn't told who was going out. The tribe gotten Tree Mail, asking three members to go on a quest. Silas quickly picked himself, Frank and Teresa to go on the quest. Later on, Kelly Goldsmith, Lex van den Berghe and Big Tom Buchanan, claiming they gotten bad news. They explained that they would be Samburu until the merge. This shocked them and set Lindsey in a state of panic. Although they lost the Reward Challenge, The new Samburu won immunity. However, this was because they stopped trying half way to vote out the apparently untrustworthy Silas. Samburu won the Reward Challenge and a feast. Unfortunately, Kim wasn't able to eat as her stomach shrunken. Boran won immunity. The original Samburu decided to vote against Big Tom because he was the least likely to win a nature quiz tiebreaker. However, the original Borans gotten a signal from Kim Johnson that Lindsey had past votes. Using this, Lindsey was sent home after a deadlock tie.

Brandon was distancing himself from Kim to save himself. The tribes merged at the next Immunity Challenge. Kim P. was the fourth person out. Eventually, Teresa won immunity over Clarence Black. When they arrived at the former Boran camp for the rest of the game, a feast awaited them. Kim P. agreed that Clarence was too much of a physical threat and voted him out. Lex was distrubed that he gotten two votes and set out find who voted against him. Ethan Zohn won reward and asked Lex to join him. Teresa used the time to reunite the original Samburu tribe. Noticing Lex's treatment of her, Kim P. asked Kelly to join them, but she refused to do so. Ethan won immunity and Lex came to the wrong conclusion that Kelly voted against him (Teresa was the one to do so.) Kelly flips to Samburu to save herself. However, Brandon couldn't think of being aligned with Frank and voted out Kelly instead.

Kim P. was shocked by Brandon's decision. For the Reward Challenge, the castaways had to pair up. In a random selection, Kim P. was team up with Big Tom. The two hit it off immediately. However, they lost in the first round to the eventual winners, Brandon and Frank. On the way to get Tree Mail, Brandon tried to explain his side of the story and that Kelly was playing both sides. Kim P. told him that he could have told her before hand. At the Immunity Challenge, Kim P. was the first person to make fire. However, Lex won immunity. Having lost trust in her friend, Kim P. joined in voting him out. At this point, everyone was becoming Lethargic. After Tribal Council, Kim P. had mixed feelings about voting out Brandon, but stated it needed to be done. At the Survivor Auction, Kim P. brought a hot fudge sundae for 12,500 Kenyan shiliing. Lex won immunity and Frank was unanimously voted out for voicing his political views. At the new Reward Challenge, Kim P. became emotionally seeing her mom on the video. Despite her best efforts, Kim P. lost to Lex. Lex asked Big Tom to join him on his Safari reward. At the Immunity Challenge, Kim P. was the third person knocked from the challenge. Teresa tried to convince Kim J. (Who was going to be voted out when all of original Boran) and Big Tom (Who had lost Trust in Lex) to vote out Lex. However, the Borans stayed strong and Kim P. was voted out in a 4-2 vote.

At Final Tribal Council, Kim P. revealed that she learned about herself from people like Frank and Big Tom, who she would never have the opportunity to learn from. She noted that it was more about herself that what she learned. Kim P. then asked the finalists who on the jury did you learn the most about yourself from and who you learned the least from and why. Kim J. said Kim P. herself, which the finalist pointed out was strange. Kim J. said it was because she was able to call off a wedding and being forgiving. She also said that she learned the least from Big Tom, despite the fun they had. Ethan said that he learned the most from Teresa because she was his safe place and her willpower is inspirational. He said that he learned the least from is Kelly because of the lack of relationship, which he regretted. Kim P. voted for Kim J. to be the Sole Survivor because of admiration.

Voting History
In The Gods Are Angry, the vote ended with a 4-4 tie between Carl and Lindsey, forcing a revote. Kim P. did not change her vote on the revote. In I'd Never Do It to You, the vote ended with a 3-3 tie between Lindsey and Tom, forcing a revote. Kim P. did not change her vote on the revote.

Post-Survivor

 * Kim is married to fellow Survivor alum Alex Bell from Amazon in Los Angeles sometime during August 2006. They currently reside in San Francisco, California and both also work for Backroads travel company.
 * On January 9, 2010, Kim attended Survivor's 10-year anniversary party.
 * Kim and Alex have adopted a girl named Bella.

Trivia

 * Kim, along with Kim Johnson, is the first contestant to compete on a season with someone who has the same first name.
 * They are also the second highest ranking member of original tribes.
 * Kim's luxury item was a String Necklace.
 * Kim is the last remaining person to never be on Boran.
 * Kim is the first castaway who did not receive a Confessional in their elimination episode.