Blasband was cast in The Real World: New York, the first season of MTV's long-running reality television series, The Real World, for which she was paid $2,500.
In the seventh episode, Blasband had a heated argument with her African-American roommate, Kevin Powell, about the quality of life in The United States, and racism. Blasband said that the intense argument match was completely blown out of proportion and edited to portray her and Powell as extremist, and stated in 1996 that she and Powell were on good terms.
During the course of the series had a romance with the show's director, Bill "Corky" Richmond. During the show, the three female cast members were sent to Jamaica's Hedonism II resort. Blasband and Richmond became close while in Jamaica. This upset the show's producers, who fired Richmond, and established a rule that off-camera personnel could not get involved with cast members.
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