Barbie from Below Deck thinks Cat shouldn’t have signed up for the show

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Below deck‘S Cat Baugh said she wasn’t sure if working at St. David was the right choice — and fellow stew Barbie Pascual disagrees.

“I don’t think she should have ever signed up for this,” Barbie said exclusively We weekly on Thursday, February 29, after filming season 11 with Cat. “This isn’t for her.”

Barbie noted that Cat might need more experience before joining such a big ship, adding, “I think sailing could too [still] be for her. Small yachts and maybe even potentially mega yachts. One day she could climb the ladder there, but this environment was not for her. That’s no problem. This is a lot.”

Earlier this season, Cat was promoted to chief steward Fraser Olender that she felt overwhelmed after being assigned to help everyone on the internal team. Slowly she found her stride, but the stews lacked rank and made Cat question her place on the boat.

“It was an umbrella of everything [for her]. The pressure of being at St. David is not [like] be on another boat,” Barbie said. “The pressure is – it’s a lot. And you work a lot of hours, and that’s really not for everyone. I give her grace for that, because it’s really, really hard.

Barbie Pascual, Kat Baugh Charles Sykes/Bravo; Fred Jagueneau/Bravo

Throughout season 11, viewers have seen Barbie and Cat clash, with Fraser caught in the middle. Although Barbie felt more experienced in a leadership role, Cat’s attempts to speak up caused several arguments. Fraser tried to mediate, but that only made his working relationship with Barbie worse.

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“I should have been more sympathetic. But I did what needed to be done to get the job done,” she continued. “I didn’t know her story either. She never sat with me. She sat down with Fraser and gave me the opportunity to be empathetic, so that was something different.

Cat previously told Fraser about the “trauma” she experienced during her time in a religious cult.

“I was in a foster home. My father died when I was nine from multiple sclerosis. And then my mother died when I was 13, just in her sleep. It was very sudden and no [they don’t know what it was]she explained in a February episode. “So me and my brother were thrown into the system and separated.”

Cat was then adopted by a family who did not want her to come into contact with her brother.

“I don’t talk to the family I lived with because they were a cult religion,” she continued. “We were [in the same state]. But they wouldn’t even let me talk to him because he wasn’t religious. It was such an extreme religion that they wouldn’t even let me speak to my own biological brother.”

As she grew older, Cat made the decision to reconnect with her sibling. “Because I wanted to continue the relationship with my biological brother, they said, ‘No. We do not support that,” she concluded. “When I turned 18, I decided to choose my brother and choose my life. I decided to live for myself and that’s when I became the most independent. Now me and my brother are so close. He is like my best friend.”

Cat discussed in a confessional how her childhood ultimately influenced her work ethic.

“When you grow up with a lot of trauma, you become very insecure about yourself. The foster family I was with did a lot of things that made me feel like I just wasn’t perfect,” she recalled. “You had to be perfect. So how people perceive my work ethic is very important to me. I don’t want to be seen as weak. It literally gives me great anxiety.”

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi

Below deck season 11 airs on Bravo Mondays at 9pm ET. New episodes stream the next day on Peacock.

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