Some may choose to remember Like Dat as the big girl from Flavor of Love 2, but we'll always remember her as the girl with the big personality. After the jump, Like Dat talks about how she left things with Buckwild, hanging with Lil' Kim and repping for the big girls.

Was the show a positive experience for you?

I had a good time. On the in and out, it was a lot of fun, but it was serious, hard work. The first couple of days, I was a little twisted. One time, the boys came over at like 4:00 in the morning with a big light on their camera, and I'm still getting adjusted to the time zone and everything. I'm just trying to get everything together because I don't know what we're supposed to do next and we're sleeping and the man comes up with a light. I thought he was the police! I almost swung at the boy! Where I'm from, we fight first and ask questions later (laughs). When I finally saw past the light and saw that it was a camera, I was like, "Boy, you was about to get hurt."

I was sad to see you go this week – I thought you had a shot. It seemed like Krazy and Nibblz were sad, too.

I thought I had a chance, too, but the man wasn't feeling me. And as for that last group of girls, when I turned around and said, "Y'all take care of my man," I really meant that. That was my crew right there. Even though I wasn't really trusting Buckwild as being real, the one thing I did like about Buckwild is that she's really a really good and really nice person. I mean, that's my own personal struggle, my struggle with her, but the bottom line is that it wouldn't be nothing I wouldn't do for her. It wouldn't be nothing I wouldn't do for Beatuful, it wouldn't be nothing I wouldn't do for Buckeey or Nibblz or Deelishis or Krazy.

About the Buckwild struggle, did you feel bad once she started crying after you confronted her?

I did feel bad, because I did not mean to make the girl cry. I was just trying to be honest. I was just saying look, boo, where I live at, you have to come as yourself. Where I live, in Jersey City, they'd rather you to come up in there as a regular little old white girl, than some white girl trying to be black. And that was my whole point. It's not like I don't know white girls that were born in the hood. They have them where I live at, and I know their families because they were born there and they know what's up there. But I didn't mean to hurt her feelings like that.

And do you think she ended up being real or were you always convinced that it was an act?

I don't know, man, because when I left there, I was still struggling with it. But sometimes when you're struggling with something, you gotta let it go because you focus too much time on it. You just gotta let it go and see people for who they are and who they want to be. Eventually the Lord will provide a way for them to understand what you are saying to them. And that's how I left it, and that's how it still is.

Do you think Flav gave you a fair shot?

I think so. I don't ever walk into anything believing that my chances aren't as good as anybody else's. I felt like from day one, my chances were just as good.

And no matter what, you still got to rep for the big girls.

You know what? All I can do is me, and I'm not a small person. I wasn't walking around denying or acting foolish enough to think that I was on TV and I am not the size that I am. What I was saying was that I'm the size that I am, and you know what? I got a little black book, too. I got two little black books. I got three little black books. I'm not saying that those other girls weren't beautiful, because they were beautiful girls, they had gorgeous bodies and everything. I'm just saying that the standard depiction of body image is not always what the men like. I was bold enough to say that I could get with that brother [Flav] because I know that I'm beautiful. I'm cute, I'm intelligent and I'm beautiful. Even now I go out and people are like, "You are really way prettier than you are on that show. You look even better than you look then."

Do you agree? Do you look different?

Boy, if I could change the way I look, I would to keep people from stopping me on the street. I can't get nowhere no more. Twenty-five million viewers is for real, but on the real, I ain't Beyoncé. I'm just Like Dat from a cable TV show, and people still bustin' me out, "Oh, we saw you. Oh this. Oh that." Baseball hats, sunglasses, they still be trying to get with me. They still know who I am.

Are you going to keep the name Like Dat?

I love that name and I'm trying to keep it for as long as I can. People really do think I'm funny. They love my personality, so I'm gonna see what I can do with it. You have to check out my blog. I'm a halfway decent writer. I'm literally blessed. So as long as I'm allowed to keep my name, I'ma use it.

It seems like you're a natural entertainer. Were you interested in getting into showbiz before Flavor of Love?

Listen: I had absolutely no interest. I answered that casting call as a joke, I didn't even think those people were going to call me back. My friends and I watched a Season 1 marathon at my friend's house and we were cracking up, laughing at all these young girls and knowing how old Flav is. He's closer to people my age than these 22-, 23-year-olds who don't know his music and didn't grow up with him. We were all like, "We should be on this show. It can't be hard." And then my one friend found a casting call so I answered it, and I still didn't believe it. When they gave me my flight information and itinerary, I still didn't believe it. I was getting calls everyday for almost two weeks to make sure everything was OK, and I still didn't believe it. I got off the plane, into the hotel and met with the executive producers and I still didn't believe I was going to be on the show. I got into the house and I was like, "Oh s***, I'm on the show." Because I'm in advertising and I've done a lot of presentations, there's a side of me that really knows how to get people involved in what they're listening to. But that's as far as I went. This show was kind of a spur-of-the-moment, once-in-a-lifetime thing and now I'm being like, "Hey, maybe this is a good look for me." You never know where you're gonna see me. I was at the AOL VMAs after-party Thursday night and I was hanging out with Lil' Kim 'cause it was her party, and Fantasia and John Legend.

They recognized you from the show?

Totally! They were getting their people to tap my people on the shoulder to say, "Can we meet her?" I only had to ask to meet one person.

Who?

Lil Jon. 'Cause I love me some Lil Jon. You don't understand, I looooove Lil Jon like I love Flav. I wasn't waiting for his people to come and get me. Next thing I know, those people told some other people and Kurupt was saying what's up. I was sitting next to Snoopy. Lil' Kim was kissing me on the cheek: "What's up, girl? I watched you." Fantasia was like, "I watched you!" And I was like, "But I watched you!"

So, what's next for you, Like Dat? Besides hobnobbing with celebs, that is.

I'm gonna continue blogging. On Sept. 13, I'm going to be on The Wendy Williams Experience and Vibe TV is going to tape that. Wendy Williams! I'm a fan of Wendy Williams and she's interviewing me. I'm just praying that this works out for me. I'm not the size for XXL and Eye Candy and King magazines. The other girls are gonna do just fine with their modeling careers. All I got is my personality. I'm hoping it can work for somebody.

Watch Like Dat and Buckwild share a special moment plus plenty more from Episode 5 only on VSPOT!

Comments

[Andrew]

Love to love you, Like Dat!

[Kaylee]

Like Dat u the shiznit! I always liked you. You definately always kept it real and you were a really cool person. Keep doin ya thing gurl!

[Kaylee]

Like Dat u the shiznit! I always liked you. You definately always kept it real and you were a really cool person. Keep doin ya thing gurl!

[the hater]

like dat is nothing but a fat bitch

[Jazmyn Outler]

like dat when watching the show i saw haw you didnt believe that buck wild really acted and talked black. who are you to judge her when watching you talk the way you was talking. that shit was so fake. if that is the way you talk please help yourself. you should not judge anyone expecially looking the way you look.

and thats the way it is .. ha ha ha ..

[su]

im glad like dat big fat ass left she didnt have no connection wit flav wat so ever.....now all flav has to do is elimante krazy and ill be happy =)

[Lila]

Hey like dat, wow when i saw you on the show i thought you were very funny, i thought you are mad cool. i never missed the show you were one of the reasons why i watch the show , you kept very entertaining. im going to miss watching you. take care and keep doing what you do gurl.

[LYRIC0949]

Like Dat- You are pretty and have a great personality. Most of those girls couldn't hold a nice personality in their bodies because their ego was to big. You repped for the big girls and let the skinny b*tches hate, cause in the end you still left without being a whore. You are to pretty for flavor to even hold your hand with his ugly a$$.

[BRIDGET]

LIKE DAT, GIRL TO ME, YOU WAS THE ONLY ONE REALLY ON FLAVS LEVEL. NO OTHER FEMALE IN THE HOUSE COULD EVEN GET CLOSE. OH! WITH BUCKWILD I FEEL THE SAME WAY YOU FEEL AND I AM A WHITE GIRL REALLY BORN AND RAISED IN THE HOOD TO ME SHE'S ACTING. BUT I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU MENT WHEN YOU WAS TALKING TO HER. YOU WAS SPEAKING YOUR MIND AND BEING REAL IF SHE COULDN'T RESPECT THAT THEN THAT IS ON HER. TO ME IT WAS COOL HOW YOU WAS TRING TO EXPLAIN IT TO HER BUT SHE WASN'T GETTING IT. GIRL YOU WAS THE COOLEST ONE IN THE HOUSE. IF NO ONE MISSES YOU I'M GONNA MISS YOU. GOOD LUCH IN WHATEVER GOES ON WITH YOU. KEEP ON KEEPING IT REAL.

[princess]

look here like dat you do not no if that
girl was talking like that forreal people
all do not sound the same way .how you go make her cry and then feel sorry you a big fat hoe

[CoCoa]

LIKE DAT, GIRL YOU ARE ONE REAL CHICK. I WAS HOPING THAT HE DID NOT VOTE YOU OFF BECAUSE YOU WOULD HAVE HAD HIS BACK WHEN NO ONE ELSE WOULD HAVE. HE WILL SEE THAT BEAUTY IS SKIN DEEP. THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE FOR YOU THAT WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT. OH, IGNORE THE HATERS BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A THING ON YOU. BESIDES THEY PROBABLY UGLY AS HELL LOL. GO GIRL!!!!!

[Niecy]

I am gald you made Buck Wild cry, someone needed to put her in her place!! She is so fake!!! I personally think she embarrasses her own race and those she thinks she is trying to sound like!!! Flav should have called you keeping it real!!!! :) Just remember its good to be thick....only a dog wants a bone!!!! :)

[candy]

Hey Like dat you were the bomb i was so sad when you left the show gurl you kept it all real and I think that you did the right about Buckwold about ellin her about the way she act. Becuz when I saw on the show sayin that she was a wannabe I was sayin to myself why won't you just tell her how you felt and did and that's what I really give you props on that is one thing I wish all them other females would do is be real and if they had somehtin to say about another they should have told them instead of sayin it behind they back. Anywayz gurl kepp yo head and you doin good for yourself. But I loved watchin the show becuz everytime you came on I was like that's my gurl. So gurl keep doin what you doin but if you can hit me back on my e-mail becuz I would really like to talk to you

[d man]

Hey like dat I like the way u tried to prove how cool you were by jumping in the pool and making a complete ass of yourself only to still get sent home like that. huh!!! dumd bitch

[KRISTEN]

THAT WAS REAL FUCC'D UP WEN U MADE BUCKWILD CRIED I MEAN WAT THE HELL SHE DO TO U...OK IF SHE WAS ACTIN FAKE I MEAN WHO THE HELL R U TO HER THEN AFTER THAT U GON FEEL SORRY FOR HER ND CUDDLE N THE BED LIKE THAT WHICH BY THE DIDNT LOOK RITE...ALL I CAN SAY IS UR ASS IS GON ND SHES STILL THERE...DAMN I BET U FEEL DUMB NOW...

[nikida]

first of all coming from one big girl to another you were really cool up until you started to pick on buckwild. i have a white man and he talks as you would say "like black people" but there is no way of talking if you think that talking like you have no education or use the wrong words or saying things funny makes you be black it has nothing to do with it black is a color sweetie and it's beautiful. I'm from the south and trust with me being with a white man and liked b/c of the way my body is but to hear me talk on the phone people always say are you white or from up north and it doesn't bother me b/c what they are really saying or what I hear them saying is you have a very good education and i'm very proud to see you using it. The way you talk has nothing to do with who you are as a person trust I know I live with white man who talks as ghetto as you can find them but he is who he is and there's no changing him. oh yeah and before any comments are made about why am i with him it's b/c my love has no color and he treats me like the beautiful black QUEEN that i am. Oh yeah and i betcha he's know more about your culture than you would ever know. and by the way i do know flavs songs and i am only 23 years old. it's about how much you love hip hop if you know flavs songs and you're my age.

[foxy brown]

I never really did like like dat she is rude.

[JAN]

LIKE DAT WAS A FUNNY GIRL AND I THINK FLAV SHOULD OF KEPT HER BECAUSE SHE'S THE ONLY ONE REAL IN THE HOUSE AND HOME GIRL COULD OF COOKED FOR FLAV SHE WAS THE ONLY "BIG GIRL" THERE AND ALL THE OTHER SKINNYGIRL'S AND NOW I HOPE DELEISH WINS AND GETS TO BE WITH FLAV AND TO FLAV SEND THAT BITCH NEW YORY HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JAN]

LIKE DAT WAS A FUNNY GIRL AND I THINK FLAV SHOULD OF KEPT HER BECAUSE SHE'S THE ONLY ONE REAL IN THE HOUSE AND HOME GIRL COULD OF COOKED FOR FLAV SHE WAS THE ONLY "BIG GIRL" THERE AND ALL THE OTHER SKINNYGIRL'S AND NOW I HOPE DELEISH WINS AND GETS TO BE WITH FLAV AND TO FLAV SEND THAT BITCH NEW YORY HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JAN]

LIKE DAT WAS A FUNNY GIRL AND I THINK FLAV SHOULD OF KEPT HER BECAUSE SHE'S THE ONLY ONE REAL IN THE HOUSE AND HOME GIRL COULD OF COOKED FOR FLAV SHE WAS THE ONLY "BIG GIRL" THERE AND ALL THE OTHER SKINNYGIRL'S AND NOW I HOPE DELEISH WINS AND GETS TO BE WITH FLAV AND TO FLAV SEND THAT BITCH NEW YORY HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DA BADDEST]

that's my dog get it!!! get it!!! get it!!!

[DA BADDEST]

that's my dog get it!!! get it!!! get it!!!