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Although the castmates were informed ahead of time that they would be living with someone who was [[HIV]]-positive, they were not informed which housemate it would be.<ref>Winick (2000). pp. 30, 63–64.</ref> On the cast's first night in the house, Campos’ housemate, [[AIDS]] educator [[Pedro Zamora]], informed the housemates that he had AIDS by showing them his scrapbook of his career as an HIV educator. Although Campos initially felt uncomfortable and distanced herself from Zamora out of health concerns,<ref name="Paddywagons">{{cite episode |title=Planes, Trains and Paddywagons |url=http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/357648/questions.jhtml#id=1607521 |series=The Real World: San Francisco |network=MTV |airdate=July 6, 1994 |season=3 |number=1}}</ref> the two eventually became friends, with Zamora traveling to Arizona with Campos to visit her family.<ref name="RWep12" /> During her time on the series, she had both a romantic relationship and tumultuous friendship with housemate [[David Rainey|David "Puck" Rainey]].<ref>{{cite episode|series=The Real World: San Francisco|season=3|number=10|title=Kiss and Tell|airdate=September 1, 1994|network=MTV|url=http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/357846/love-triangle.jhtml#id=1607563}}</ref> Fellow cast member [[Judd Winick]] attributed this attraction on her part to her taste for rebellious men, or "bad boys". Campos conceded this,<ref name=RWep2/> and admitted that she was sometimes an initial bad judge of character, and too trusting.<ref name=RachelBio/> Campos' friendship with Rainey eventually dissolved, as did Rainey's friendship with the rest of the cast,<ref>''The Real World Diaries''. MTV Books/[[Pocket Books]]. 1996. pp. 146–147.</ref> resulting in his eviction.<ref>{{cite episode|title=Getting Dropped|series=The Real World: San Francisco|season=3|number=11|network=MTV|airdate=September 8, 1994|url=http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/357851/talking-in-circles.jhtml#id=1607566}}</ref> Campos subsequently became best friends with Rainey's replacement, Joanna Rhodes, and the two of them were referred to by Winick as "high maintenance twins".<ref>Their rapport is mentioned in Episodes 14, 17 and 18. Winick uses the term during the bicycling trip in Episode 17.</ref>
 
On the show and in MTV's promotional materials for the show, Campos was depicted as a passionate [[United States Republican Party|Republican]],<ref name=RachelBio/> whose heroes included [[Jack Kemp]],<ref name=JustFriends>{{cite episode|title=Just Friends|series=The Real World: San Francisco|season=3|number=18|network=MTV|airdate=October 27, 1994|url=http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/358223/putting-up-a-wall.jhtml#id=1607634}}</ref> and as a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]], though she conceded her strict religious upbringing fostered within her a rebellious streak that sometimes brought her into conflict with her parents.<ref name=RWep12/> Her political viewpoints led to conflict with her housemates on more than one occasion, as when Mohammed Bilal ridiculed the Republican housing ideas that she expressed in Episode 3.<ref>{{cite episode|title=White Like Me|series=The Real World: San Francisco|season=3|number=3|network=MTV|airdate=July 14, 1994|url=http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/358223/putting-up-a-wall.jhtml#id=1607634}}</ref> In Episode 18, after Campos invited her housemates to a [[College Republicans]] function, self-described liberal Winick<ref name=Paddywagons/> opined that the speakers at the function were [[sexist]], homophobic, and [[racist]], a view which Campos objected to as unfair.<ref name=JustFriends/>
 
In 1998 Campos taped ''[[Road Rules: All Stars]]'', along with alumni of other past ''Real World'' seasons, such as [[Sean Duffy]] of the ''[[The Real World (Boston)|Real World: Boston]]'' cast, whom she would later marry.<ref name="MilwaukeeJS" />