| Florina Kaja | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1982 (age 29–30) Staten Island, New York |
| Nationality | Albanian American |
| Other names | Flo |
| Known for | Bad Girls Club |
| Spouse | Patriot "Pat Coso" Kosovrasti |
Florina "Flo" Kaja is an Albanian-American Muslim[1] reality television participant, singer and actress native to Staten Island, New York. She is mostly known by her stage name "Flo".[1] Kaja was a participant on season 4 of Oxygen Networks's The Bad Girls Club. During the show she became a LGBT rights activist.[1]
Kaja's episode Go With The Flo became the most watched episode of the Bad Girls Club, achieving 2.27 million viewers, to date, excluding the reunion specials.[2] Kaja has appeared on The Tyra Banks Show[3] and her television special Bad Girls Club: Flo Gets Married aired on Oxygen on February 28, 2011.[4]
Kaja regards herself as being "the first Albanian Muslim woman ever to be on a reality TV". Kaja is the third bisexual that has appeared on The Bad Girls Club after Nikki "Cordelia" Carlisle and Ty Colliers.[1] She is also a strong believer of Allah.[5][6]
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Florina Kaja was born in 1982 in Staten Island, New York as the second child and younger daughter of Albanian immigrant couple, Sakip Kaja (1953–1990) and Safija (pronounced: Sophia). Kaja's father was an Albanian gangster and was murdered when Kaja was 8 years old.[6]
Kaja was a contestant on the fourth season of the Bad Girls Club which aired from December 2, 2009 to March 31, 2010 on Oxygen in the United States. Kaja was nicknamed "Flo" prior to her season of the Bad Girls Club by her friends and family.[5] Kaja first starred in season 4, in episode one, "Off The Wall" and came out to her roommates as a bisexual.[5] Kaja then became the third "bad girl" to ever be openly bisexual.[5] Kaja was then injured after an altercation with Amber McWha during the seventh episode, but she later recovered before she voluntarily left the show during the tenth episode.[5] Kaja stated, upon exiting, that she felt that the other roommates didn't care about her nor respected her life. During the reunion, Kaja stated that she had left so she couldn't physically harm anyone.[5]
After The Bad Girls Club, Kaja continued to appear in interviews. Kaja also appeared in the Bad Girls Club special entitled Top 10 OMG's in Bad Girls Club History which aired a week after season 5's part two reunion had aired.[3]
Bad Girls Club: Flo Gets Married was a one-hour special that centered around season four's The Bad Girls Club's Florina "Flo" Kaja's and Patriot "Pat Coso" Kosovrasti's marriage as a traditional Albanian wedding and pregnancy. It aired on Oxygen on February 28, 2011.[4]
Kaja met Kosovrasti at a local Staten Island, New York club and instantly became inseparable, after finding out they were both Albanian Americans.[6] Within months the two decided to get married. Kosovrasti's mother Angie, sought out Kaja as the antithesis of a traditional Albanian house wife and disapprove her "bad ways" stating that Kaja isn't the daughter-in-law that she had wanted.[6] The entire event leading up to Kaja's marriage was taped and broad casted on Oxygen. The television special geared 0.85 million viewers, outperforming season one and some episodes of season two.[7] While preparing to get married, Kaja and Adrian found out that they will become parents when Kaja was told by doctors that she is pregnant.[6]
Celebrity guests who attended Kaja's wedding was season 2's Bad Girls Club, Tanisha Thomas. Thomas also theorized nearly 500 attendees participated in Kaja's and Kosovrasti's wedding.[6] During an interview on BGCLive.com with Tanisha Thomas, Kaja told Thomas that since her doctors told her that her child has a 80% chance of being a girl, that Kaja is going for the name Kitana; being named and inspired by Mortal Kombat's Kitana. Kosovrasti was going for the name Aurora, until he and Kaja found out that the name belonged to a female stripper.[8]
Kaja is currently working on her debut album. Kaja's single "Tear It Up" was released via her official website in 2010 and features KofI Black as a back-up singer. The song incorporates slow and mid-tempo R&B beats along with pop and electropop influences.[1]
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2009–2010 | The Bad Girls Club[3] | Appeared in 12 episodes |
| 2009–2010 | The Tyra Banks Show[3] | Appeared in 2 episodes |
| 2011 | Bad Girls Club: Flo Gets Married[7] | Television special |
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