Florina Kaja
Encyclopedia
Florina "Flo" Kaja is an Albanian-American
Muslim
reality television participant
, singer and actress native to Staten Island
, New York
. She is mostly known by her stage name
"Flo". Kaja was a participant on season 4
of Oxygen Networks
's The Bad Girls Club
. During the show she became a LGBT rights activist
.
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. Kaja has appeared on The Tyra Banks Show
and her television special Bad Girls Club: Flo Gets Married aired on Oxygen on February 28, 2011.
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 before Nikki "Cordelia" Carlisle and Ty Colliers. She is also a strong believer of Allah
.
and was murdered when Kaja was 8 years old.
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. Kaja first starred in season 4, in episode one, "Off The Wall" and came out to her roommates as a bisexual. Kaja then became the third "bad girl" to ever be openly bisexual. 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. 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.
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.
'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.
Kaja met Kosovrasti at a local Staten Island, New York club and instantly became inseparable, after finding out they were both Albanian Americans. 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. 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
. 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.
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. 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 Kombats Kitana
. Kosovrasti was going for the name Aurora
, until he and Kaja found out that the name belonged to a female stripper.
beats along with pop
and electropop influences.
Albanian-American
Albanian Americans are United States citizens of full or partial Albanian ancestry. Although according to data from a 2008 Survey of the United States Government, there are 201,118 Americans of full or partial Albanian descent.-Emigration History:...
Muslim
Islam in Albania
During the Ottoman rule, according to Ottoman data, the majority of Albanians were of Muslim affiliation . However, decades of state atheism which ended in 1991 brought a decline in religious practice in all traditions....
reality television participant
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
, singer and actress native to Staten Island
Staten Island
Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. She is mostly known by her stage name
Stage name
A stage name, also called a showbiz name or screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers such as actors, wrestlers, comedians, and musicians.-Motivation to use a stage name:...
"Flo". Kaja was a participant on season 4
The Bad Girls Club (season 4)
Bad Girls Club 4 is the fourth season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The fourth season was also the last season to film in Los Angeles, California until season six, which filmed in Hollywood, California....
of Oxygen Networks
Oxygen (TV channel)
Oxygen is an American cable television specialty channel with television programming marketed towards women, with a format similar to Lifetime.- History :...
's The Bad Girls Club
The Bad Girls Club
Bad Girls Club is an American reality television series created by Jonathan Murray for Oxygen. The show centers on seven mischievous and rebellious women from different backgrounds and personalities who have a number of psychological and behavioral problems. They are introduced to the show to...
. During the show she became a LGBT rights activist
LGBT social movements
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements share inter-related goals of social acceptance of sexual and gender minorities. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their allies have a long history of campaigning for what is generally called LGBT rights, also called gay...
.
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. Kaja has appeared on The Tyra Banks Show
The Tyra Banks Show
The Tyra Banks Show, also known as and shortened to Tyra or The Tyra Show, is an American talk show hosted by Tyra Banks. The last new episode aired on Friday, May 28, 2010.-2005-2009: Syndication:...
and her television special Bad Girls Club: Flo Gets Married aired on Oxygen on February 28, 2011.
Kaja regards herself as being "the first Albanian Muslim woman ever to be on a reality TV". Kaja is the third bisexual
Bisexuality
Bisexuality is sexual behavior or an orientation involving physical or romantic attraction to both males and females, especially with regard to men and women. It is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation, along with a heterosexual and a homosexual orientation, all a part of the...
that has appeared on The Bad Girls Club before Nikki "Cordelia" Carlisle and Ty Colliers. She is also a strong believer of Allah
Allah
Allah is a word for God used in the context of Islam. In Arabic, the word means simply "God". It is used primarily by Muslims and Bahá'ís, and often, albeit not exclusively, used by Arabic-speaking Eastern Catholic Christians, Maltese Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Mizrahi Jews and...
.
Early life
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 . Kaja's father was an Albanian gangsterGangster
A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang. Some gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from mob and the suffix -ster....
and was murdered when Kaja was 8 years old.
Bad Girls Club
Kaja was a contestant on the fourth seasonThe Bad Girls Club (season 4)
Bad Girls Club 4 is the fourth season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The fourth season was also the last season to film in Los Angeles, California until season six, which filmed in Hollywood, California....
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. Kaja first starred in season 4, in episode one, "Off The Wall" and came out to her roommates as a bisexual. Kaja then became the third "bad girl" to ever be openly bisexual. 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. 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.
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
The Bad Girls Club (season 5)
Bad Girls Club: Miami was the fifth season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The fifth season moved filming from the previous location in Los Angeles, California to Miami, Florida in an area on North Bay Road, between 41st and 64th streets...
's part two reunion had aired.
Television special, Marriage and Pregnancy
Bad Girls Club: Flo Gets Married was a one-hour special that centered around season fourThe Bad Girls Club (season 4)
Bad Girls Club 4 is the fourth season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The fourth season was also the last season to film in Los Angeles, California until season six, which filmed in Hollywood, California....
's The Bad Girls Club
The Bad Girls Club
Bad Girls Club is an American reality television series created by Jonathan Murray for Oxygen. The show centers on seven mischievous and rebellious women from different backgrounds and personalities who have a number of psychological and behavioral problems. They are introduced to the show to...
's Florina "Flo" Kaja's and Patriot "Pat Coso" Kosovrasti's marriage as a traditional Albanian
Albanians
Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...
wedding and pregnancy. It aired on Oxygen on February 28, 2011.
Kaja met Kosovrasti at a local Staten Island, New York club and instantly became inseparable, after finding out they were both Albanian Americans. 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. The entire event leading up to Kaja's marriage was taped and broad casted on Oxygen
Oxygen (TV channel)
Oxygen is an American cable television specialty channel with television programming marketed towards women, with a format similar to Lifetime.- History :...
. The television special geared 0.85 million viewers, outperforming season one
The Bad Girls Club (season 1)
Bad Girls Club is an American reality television series that premiered on the Oxygen Network on December 5, 2006. The show premiered to the highest ratings ever in the networks history, being the first series to break the one million mark...
and some episodes of season two
The Bad Girls Club (season 2)
Bad Girls Club 2 is the second season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The second season also beat the ratings and viewership of the first season. The second season was the final season to air 30 minute episodes. This season's reunion host was hosted by Star Jones...
. 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.
Celebrity guests who attended Kaja's wedding was season 2
The Bad Girls Club (season 2)
Bad Girls Club 2 is the second season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The second season also beat the ratings and viewership of the first season. The second season was the final season to air 30 minute episodes. This season's reunion host was hosted by Star Jones...
's Bad Girls Club, Tanisha Thomas. Thomas also theorized nearly 500 attendees participated in Kaja's and Kosovrasti's wedding. 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 Kombats Kitana
Kitana (Mortal Kombat)
Kitana is a recurring player and a one-time boss character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. One of the lead characters of the Mortal Kombat saga, Kitana is the princess of the otherdimensional realm of Edenia and the daughter of Queen Sindel...
. Kosovrasti was going for the name Aurora
Aurora (name)
Aurora is a given name for women, originating from the Latin word for dawn. Aurora was the ancient Roman equivalent of Eos, the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn.-Notable people bearing the name include::* Aurora Bautista , a Spanish film actress...
, until he and Kaja found out that the name belonged to a female stripper.
Music career
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&BRhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
beats along with pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
and electropop influences.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2009–2010 | The Bad Girls Club The Bad Girls Club (season 4) Bad Girls Club 4 is the fourth season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The fourth season was also the last season to film in Los Angeles, California until season six, which filmed in Hollywood, California.... |
Appeared in 12 episodes |
| 2009–2010 | The Tyra Banks Show The Tyra Banks Show The Tyra Banks Show, also known as and shortened to Tyra or The Tyra Show, is an American talk show hosted by Tyra Banks. The last new episode aired on Friday, May 28, 2010.-2005-2009: Syndication:... |
Appeared in 2 episodes |
| 2011 | Bad Girls Club: Flo Gets Married | Television special |