Bio
Christa Hastie was the 12th person voted out of Survivor: Pearl Islands and the fourth member of the jury.
Hastie was born and raised in Ojai, California, and lives in Los Angeles. She is employed as a computer programmer. As a child, she worked as a model requiring her to travel to Tokyo and the Bahamas. During high school and college, she worked as a lifeguard for four years.
She is most proud of earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Irvine, although she believes her real education comes from living life and diving into any and all opportunities.
Her favourite hobbies include creating and designing websites, software and database applications, turning wrenches on her fiancé's race car and sewing fun and unique clothes.
She describes herself as chameleon-like (she claims she can fit in anywhere), extroverted and genuine. She is a member of the Sports Car Club of America so she can be a member of her fiancé's pit crew when he races.
She considers her late father to be her hero as he taught her that the most important things in life were to love, laugh and live.
She was once arrested for a misdemeanour and charged with "disrupting an officer's ability to perform his duties." While in college, she hopped on her car and refused to get off the hood when she discovered it was in the process of being towed.
After the contestants for Survivor: Pearl Islands were announced, The Smoking Gun revealed that Hastie had posted several incriminating messages to various online newsgroups devoted to illegal drug use.
The emails Hastie posted were from her college email addresses and contained her full name.
In a June 1998 posting to the alt.drugs group, Hastie sent a message with the subject line "I want meth in LA or OC?" Her note asked, "where I can hook up w/ some meth in Los Angeles or Orange County...and how and who do you know to ask about this shit?"
In another June 1998 post, this one in response to a question about "alternatives to speed," Hastie offered a recipe featuring Aspirin, Vivarin (an over-the-counter stimulant) and Ephedrine, a prescription weight loss pill.
Hastie posted, "that should work ok....hang in there, I understand :-)!"
A January 1999 post to alt.drugs asks for "any good recommendations for getting the most out of your cocaine? I mean, can you take any pills, i.e. Vivarin, to keep your high for longer periods of time?"
Hastie also asked for a suggestion as to where she could purchase a "coke bong" near Los Angeles.
Hastie married racing driver Peter Waydo in 2003 and the couple had a girl, Mischa, born on 13 September 2005.
She is a member of the Sports Car Club of America so she can be a part of Peter's pit crew when he races.