Sabela Alvarez never chased fame, it sort of just happened. Growing up, it never seemed too out of reach, there were connections and maybe if Sabela had spoken up and said she wanted to pursue something--maybe modeling, maybe acting, she was sure that her parents would have supported her and pulled some strings and got her name out there to make that dream come true. The problem was, she never really had those dreams. She grew up understanding that opportunities were out there and her family had the resources to make practically anything (within reason) happen, she knew she could pursue fame if she really desired it and she also knew she could pursue higher education and take that direction in life, but Sabela was in a constant state of not knowing what she really wanted out of life.

When she was nineteen years-old, five years after her mother remarried and moved the family to Los Angeles, everything seemed to happen at once. At a time when reality TV seemed to be everywhere for any reason, her home was the next to be filled with camera crews documenting the life of her step family and, in turn, her life as well. Since the focus was more on the Stepps rather than herself or her (real) siblings, Sabela was under the very short-lived impression that it wouldn't make that big of a difference in the long run.

It didn't take long for the show to gain attention, not only for the Stepps but for herself as well. Despite not being a main focus on the show, her appearances gained her more attention that she ever could have predicted leading to all of her social media accounts gaining hundreds of thousands of followers practically over night with people wanting to know more about her on and off camera, fan sites popping up, and as one might expect, haters seemingly coming out of the woodwork to critique her every move.

Though she was no closer to deciding what she wanted to do with her life than she had been before filming began, she took the show as her cue to put a pause on everything and just live out her life and have fun. She was still young, so why not?

This attitude gained her the reputation of being a party girl despite the fact that she never did anything too outrageous. Reality TV thrives on drama, though, so even if she only went clubbing two or three nights a month, the cameras were on her and it was misconstrued in the media, making it seem as though she was out every single night partying it up. She made a few weak attempts to clear the air on social media, but people seemed to believe what they were seeing on the show over whatever she had to say.

She decided to shrug it off by playing that image up even further, thinking that if that's what the fans wanted, that's what she'd give them.

Two years into the show in 2010, recorded footage of Sabela at a friend's birthday party singing along to the song Tik Tok by Ke$ha made it onto the show and caught the attention of the then duo 'The Cataracs.' They contacted Sabela through twitter, asking her if she'd be interested in recording a song with them. She agreed, both halves of the deal thinking it would be a one time thing (and an opportunity for more exposure for both of them) but they all enjoyed working together and produced more songs, including the song "Booty Bounce" which was sampled by 'Far East Movement' in the song "Like a G6" that quickly hit number one in the US charts. The attention Sabela received for this landed her signing a deal with Universal Republic. She performs under the name Bel in a small attempt to keep her music life separate from her reality TV life, but fans and critics alike have a hard time separating the two.

Fans of the show and Sabela herself love that she's doing music and enjoy that her songs are all fun dance beats, but due to the stigma of being a reality tv show, she has a hard time getting people to really take her seriously as anything other than a party girl and/or someone who is famous for doing nothing.