She was the first participant in this edition’s anonymous group to surpass the 1 million followers mark on Instagram
Chaiany Andrade, 25 years old, is one of the most talked about participants in the 2026 edition of Big Brother Brasil. Born in Brasília, in the Federal District, she entered the reality show as a member of the Pipoca team, made up of anonymous people competing for the millionaire prize in the most watched house in the country.
Before gaining national visibility, Chaiany He led a simple life: he grew up in the countryside, in Vale do Paranã (Goiás), where he started working as a child, at the age of 10, helping with the family’s rural activities. At 15, she became mother to Lara, who is now around 10 years old.
Unable to continue studying, Chaiany interrupted his studies in the first year of high school and faced economic difficulties from an early age. Before being invited to BBB 26, she was unemployed, which became part of her narrative on the program and on social media.
Trajectory at BBB 26
Chaiany began his journey at BBB 26 in the dynamics of Casas de Vidro, a system in which candidates from different regions of the country were presented to the public for voting. In the Casa de Vidro in the Central-West region, she competed with three other participants to guarantee a place in the main house of the reality show.
Even though she was not directly chosen by the public to enter the program, Chaiany had a second opportunity in the “White Room”, a stage of resistance in which participants faced challenges to definitively participate in the program. BBB house. After more than five days in this dynamic, she won her main spot in the game.
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Inside and outside the house, Chaiany quickly became a topic among the public. His direct, spontaneous and charismatic manner gained followers on social media and drew attention in the first weeks of the reality show.
On social media, Chaiany’s trajectory was even more impressive: she became the first participant in this edition’s Pipoca group to surpass the 1 million followers mark on Instagram, a few days after joining the program, with numbers that continued to grow day after day, reaching around 1.3 million followers in January 2026.
This meteoric growth on the networks reflects not only fan engagement, but also the way in which his personality and life story connected with a large part of the BBB 26 audience.
