"Firstly, I don't know why there was 'uproar'; they were actually just bathers. There were plenty of other people in bathers β¦ some of the boys were in their underwear!" she said.
"But I got those bathers in particular on purpose. The sides were adjustable on the bottom, so I could tighten them up, and I took the top to an alterer and got it completely reinforced. And it helped, because I lost eight kilos throughout my experience and I needed them to be extra tight; I needed them to be comfortable," Schoers revealed.
Schoers took to Instagram today to display the results of her "16-day, 8kg" weight loss:
"So there you go: They might have looked delicate, but they absolutely were not," she said of the bathers. "I put a lot of thought into what I was wearing, because I didn't have a suitcase of clothing β I only had my bathers and my dry clothes back at camp."
Schoers' Contenders teammate Matt Farrelly provided another viral moment during Sunday's episode, as the high school teacher and pro-wrestler celebrated his tribe's win with an OTT chest-beating display. The testosterone-fuelled moment was enough for Champions tribe member Abbey Holmes to dub him "an actual idiot." So what's he really like?
"Matt reminds me a lot of my boyfriend β they're both school teachers; they're both very active. In real life he is the most down-to-earth, softly spoken, slow-paced guy," she said.
Schoers explained Farrelly's aggressive nature during challengers was "just that pro-wrestling character coming out β he's completely different one-on-one. He's a very humble, down to earth guy β hopefully they show a bit of that too," she said.
Unsurprisingly given her rapid eight-kilo weight loss, Schoers said the "starvation" was far and away the most difficult aspect of her two-and-a-bit weeks spent on Survivor.
"Day seven, day eight of winning no rewards β the starvation was real. It's such a unique place to be in where you just don't have access to food," she said.
