Samantha “Sammie” Cimarelli is a 31-year-old digital creator, model, and reality TV personality from Delaware County, Pennsylvania — Delco, as she calls it.
She is Puerto Rican, a Libra, and describes herself simply as a “veggie eating, puerto rican, libra, boy mom” in her Instagram bio. She has 779,000 followers at @sammiee and documents her life with the same warmth and openness that made her impossible not to root for on television.
Her path is not the typical influencer pipeline. She earned degrees in Psychology and Criminology from Cabrini University and went on to complete her Master’s in Applied Behavior Analysis from Russell Sage College.
Sammie worked for three years as a registered behavior technician in Miami, supporting children with autism, ADHD, and other diagnoses, before pursuing modeling and reality television. She also lost her mother in a car accident when she was two years old, and was raised by her aunt and uncle from age four — a detail she shared openly on “The Circle” that made the audience love her even more.
‘The Circle’ Season 1
Sammie rose to national prominence in 2020 as a contestant on “The Circle” Season 1, entering as herself and quickly becoming a fan favorite for her kind yet strategic gameplay.
On a show that rewards social media performance and the ability to read people from behind a screen, Sammie played with her whole chest — open, real, and strategically generous in a way that felt completely genuine.
As a behavioral specialist who had spent years working with children, she had an instinctive ability to make the other players feel seen, heard, and safe. She also shared her family backstory — the loss of her mother, being raised by her aunt — and the authenticity of it cut through the screen in a way that pure game-playing never could.
She finished in third place and won the Fan Favorite award along with $10,000. Joey Sasso won the $100,000. Shubham Goel finished as runner-up.
Both congratulated her publicly on her second pregnancy announcement in 2025, which tells you everything about the kind of friendships Season 1 produced.
Beast Games
Sammie entered “Beast Games” Season 1 as Player 417, competing alongside 999 others for $5 million — the largest prize in television history at the time. She appeared in two episodes, which means she was eliminated in the initial Allegiant Stadium round in Las Vegas before the field was cut from 1,000 to 500 contestants.
She documented the experience on her YouTube channel in a behind-the-scenes video titled “Player 417,” calling it “completely different from anything I’ve ever experienced in my life.”
Her Personal Life: Motherhood, a Breakup, and a New Chapter
Sammie’s post-show years have been defined as much by her personal life as her professional one. She dated actor Spence Moore II publicly, welcomed a son together in April 2022, and parted ways amicably in 2023. Her son Thunder became a fixture of her content — she documented pregnancy, postpartum, breastfeeding, co-parenting, and all the unglamorous in-between moments that most influencers smooth over.
Her Instagram tells that story clearly. The pinned posts include a pregnancy announcement with a newspaper reading “A Baby Is On The Way,” a tiny hand print, and breastfeeding content labeled “a fed baby” and “a happy baby.” She posts food shopping on a $100 budget, DIY lash extensions, dermaplane maintenance, wax appointments, and thrift shopping hauls — the full spectrum of a woman building a real life in public without making it look like something it is not.
In July 2025, Sammie announced her second pregnancy. She welcomed a daughter in September 2025. The announcement — and the shadow selfie with a partner visible but not identified — generated significant engagement. She has kept her current relationship private while sharing the pregnancy journey openly, which is exactly the kind of calibrated disclosure that has kept her audience deeply loyal for five years.
Where She Is Now
Sammie is based back in Pennsylvania, close to the family that raised her. She is a Savage X Fenty brand ambassador, a digital creator across Instagram and TikTok, and a mom of two. Her content sits at the intersection of beauty, motherhood, budgeting, and self-love — practical, relatable, and shot with the kind of casual warmth that feels like a FaceTime rather than a production.
Her net worth is estimated at around $800,000, built through reality TV, brand partnerships, and the audience she has maintained since 2020 without a second major show until Beast Games. That retention — nearly 800,000 followers five years after a single season of a competition show — is its own kind of win.
“The Circle” Seasons 1 through 7 are streaming now on Netflix.
“Beast Games” Season 1 is streaming now on Prime Video.
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- Where Is Joey Sasso From ‘The Circle’ Now?
- Who Is Chloe Veitch? Her Netflix Career & Where She Is Now
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