From the moment Selena stepped on the scales for her first weigh-in, the extent of her pain was clear for all to see. It was a powerful moment, a liberating opportunity for Selena to lay bare her problems in front of those dearest to her: her family.

“My first day at Camp Biggest Loser I was so nervous and missing my family, then we had the first weigh-in and my family were there, and I was like, ‘Oh crap, I wish they weren’t!’ Selena laughs. “But it was good, they gave me that push to go forward. It was good to reveal myself to my family, because they don’t really know what I’ve been going through.”

Selena’s separation from her family was made all the harder, she explains, by the sense of isolation she felt within her White Team. With alliances forming of which she wasn’t a part, Selena quickly found herself on the outside looking in.

“We weren’t really getting along that well,” she admits of the Whites. “They formed alliances pretty much straight away, so it was just me all by myself. I felt like I was back in high school and it was actually pretty annoying, because I wanted to make friends and get myself out there.

Everything has been hard for me,” Selena continues, “but I’ve tried to push through as much as I can. It’s hard for me because when I’m at home I’m loved; I’m surrounded by so much faith and support. But coming in here you’re taken out of a world where you’re safe and put into a world where you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Not one to let her disability hold her back, Selena, possessed with a wonderful sense of humour, recalls that being hearing impaired wasn’t such a burden during the Ferry Pull Challenge. “I didn’t have my hearing aid on in the boat, meaning that while everyone else was swearing at each other I was like, ‘Yeah, whatever,’ Selena giggles. “I was off in my own little world just getting on with it.”

On the receiving end of a particularly unforgiving elimination room decision by Margie, Selena is still in the dark as to why a fellow contestant would opt to bring her journey to an early end when the option not to vote at all was on the table.

“I haven’t talked to Margie about why she voted me out, but what she told Hayley in the elimination room - that I didn’t deserve to be here and that I was just being lazy - really pissed me off because I was doing the work,” Selena says, not holding a grudge but clearly distressed by a decision that never needed making. “I think everyone in that elimination room felt a little bit uncomfortable with that.”