It's A "Challenge" To Keep Up With Piggy

by Jordan Mamorsky

Sometimes life deals you a strange twist of fate. This certainly could be said about Piggy Thomas, new to the United States, alone, without a job in New York, eager to make new friends and find a life for herself. This heretofore guitar magazine editor quickly discovered that life could be fantastic at a "Road Rules/Real World" audition. Here, there were hordes of people her age, waiting for their chance to wow the camera, and the rest is simply history. Just how fantastic this road was to become was unknown, and still is, as Piggy continues to make new inroads in areas she never thought possible.

Fate has dealt Piggy challenges both on and off the set of "Road Rules". Rising to meet each challenge with unbridled enthusiasm, Piggy has successfully turned chances into opportunities. Even her self-confessed hardest challenge, the 755' leap off the stratasphere, which she swore and screamed she would never do, became a test of her being -- even though she screamed her lungs out all the way down. "It's good for the soul," she told me in an interview recently. "I faced my own impending death and survived," she admitted with a giggle.

"Road Rules" proved to be an amazing experience which changed her whole life. "Overall it was a pretty good life," Piggy remarked. "Free therapy," she added, and, as we all know, the experience brought out her worst and best qualities. The show enabled her to do some awesome things. In Australia, her favorite "challenge" was taming ferocious wild crocodiles at a crocodile farm. While she thought that the crocodile farm experience was amazing, and offered to go back to work there for a summer, she thought the Australian people were fantastic, too. She also loved the ruggedness of the challenges, the outdoor shower under the stars, and "even the bug bites were worth it!"

She suddenly questions, "Am I a spoiled little TV girl?" Quite the contrary. Piggy has most recently attached herself to The Truth Campaign, which, she says is not an anti-health campaign, "It's an anti-tobacco manipulation of teens campaign." A reformed smoker, having stopped because she fell in love, Piggy is the perfect spokesperson for The Truth Campaign.

Pictured from left to right: Rachel Stockman, Piggy, Jordan Mamorsky and Jenna Mamorsky.