| Finished in 3rd Place Original Season: Season 5 Where they Placed: 6th Place Team Nickname: "Mirna & Schmirna" | | Leg | Pit Stop Location | Ending Position | | 1 | Quito, Ecuador | 8th Place | | 2 | San Pedro de Atacama, Chile | 8th Place | | 3 | Petrohué, Chile | 8th Place | | 4 | Ushuaia, Argentina | 7th Place | | 5 | Maputo, Mozambique | 1st Place | | 6 | Zanzibar, Tanzania | 1st Place | | 7 | Warsaw, Poland | 4th Place | | 8 | Krakow, Poland | 4th Place | | 9 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 2nd Place | | 10 | Hong Kong, China | 3rd Place | | 11 | Macau, China | 2nd Place | | 12 | Guam | 3rd Place | | 13(finale) | San Francisco, USA | 3rd Place | Average Placing: 4.15 |
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"Even if we bickered, it's not like at the end of the day we're going to break up. You can't undo cousins," said Mirna!
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Team Biography: Charla, who stands at 4 feet tall, describes herself as dedicated, passionate and driven to succeed. Mirna describes herself as hard- working, a leader, but with a comical side. Her greatest achievement is obtaining her Juris Doctorate at age 23. They are not on the show to be on camera, they are in The Amazing Race All-Stars to win. (
Read full biography at CBS.com)
Since we last saw them: Mirna just got married and is looking forward to winning the $1 million prize to start her family. Charla and her husband are trying to have a baby through in vitro fertilization, and plan to use their portion of the winnings towards that.
Their Biggest Strengths: In the past, they have creatively come up with strategies to get ahead of the other teams. They feel that their family connection is their greatest strength, and they've known each other for 30 years.
Their Biggest Roadblocks: Speed and running is Charla's biggest struggle. She's planning on using a "secret
weapon" this season to get faster. Their overly dramatic way of doing things and weird accents make them a sometimes annoying team which may make other racers reluctant to help them.
Your Advice to the Team: Keep your heads together, work the Detours together, and try your darnedest to get through it!
All-Star Quotes: Season 11, Episode 1: I Told You Less Martinis, More Cardio
Mirna: “
Mas rapido, rapido! This is too little bit
rapido!”
Charla: “Well, we’re not last… and we’ll beat [David & Mary] in a footrace.”
Mirna: “Yeah right.”
Mirna: “Wrangle is going to require holding down a wild horse.”
Charla: “That’s fine, I’ll hold it.”
Season 11, Episode 2: Beauty is Sometimes Skin Deep
Mirna: “Ooo… it might be chilly in Chile.”
Charla: “I need a step stool.”
Mirna: “Charla, I don’t have time for a step stool, please!”
Charla: “I CAN’T REACH IT!”
Mirna: “There is no step stool.”
Charla: “THIS is a step stool!”
Charla: “Beauty is sometimes skin deep. Its easy to make yourself beautiful with plastic surgery. But to have a pure heart and to have morals is not easy to make up.”
*cue BQ evil laugh*
Mirna: “GO! GO! What’s your problem? You drive like a girl?”
Mirna: “Clueless! At least if you knew where you were going, you could do your little maneuvers.”
Season 11, Episode 3: I'm Sorry I'm Wearing a Bathing Suit. It is Very Weird, I Know
Ian: “You’re being rude!”
Mirna: “I took lessons from the king of rude… you!”Mirna: “Welcome to Charla and Mirna’s world… it’s a scary one!”Mirna: “I’m sorry I’m wearing a bathing suit. It is very weird, I know.”Season 11, Episode 4: No Babies on the Race!
Mirna: “Charla! Level 5! LEVEL 5!! On the treadmill! You can do it!”
Mirna: (to Rob) “See ya! Wouldn’t wanna be ya!”
Season 11, Episode 5: You Need to Watch Your Jokes, Guy
Charla: “We’ll just be a popsicle… and somebody can suck us.”
Mirna: “What the hell is an avalanche beacon?”
Charla: “An avalanche is when the snow falls down.”
Charla: “I’ve never been to a glacier in my life.”Mirna: “That’s a huge damn rat.”Mirna: “I’m glad they have meterosexuals everywhere in the world.”
Season 11, Episode 6: We're Going to Trade You for Food Now
Mirna (in a Spanish accent): “What number you have to dial out? Nine?”
Charla (in a Spanish accent): “Just try… please. I’m asking. Why not possible? Just dial. Hit… hit… hit.”Mirna: “Throw me the water bottle!”
Charla throws the bottle.
Mirna: “Good throw, maybe you should’ve done it.”Phil: “As the winners of this leg of the Race, you have each won a twelve and a half foot catamaran.”
Charla & Mirna: “Huh? What is that?”
Phil: “It’s a jewel hulled sailing boat.”
Charla & Mirna: “Yes!”
Season 11, Episode 7: If I Were in Town, I'd Ask For Your Number
Charla: “You like Polish Hot Dogs?”
Mirna: “You like Polish Sausage?”
Charla: “Sausage?”
Mirna: “Good?”
Charla: “He doesn’t like us too much.”
Mirna: “No, I don’t think so.”
Nobody in Poland wants to speak to Charla & Mirna.
Mirna: “Maybe they’ve never seen a little person. Nobody wants to talk to us, it’s like we’re the plague or something.”
The piano is out of tune.
Charla: “Sounds like an ambulance is coming.”
Charla: “I don’t know why it’s all men. They don’t have any women mannequin?”
Carrying the mannequin.
Charla: “They’re going to think we’re crazy on the streets.”
Polish Lady: “Oh gosh! He has a broken leg.”
Charla: “That’s okay, he’ll get fixed at the hospital.”
Mirna: “Oh great, we’ve got to do x-rays. Is that good for you? Charla, you’ve got to get out of the room. What are you doing? You’re hiding the x-ray image.”
Charla: “You’re supposed to cover the private part.”
Mirna: “Great.”
Charla: “This is a real fun task, let me tell you. After the naked mannequin and now the sausage?”
Mirna: “Female bonding over sausages.”
Mirna: “We don’t have a hundred dollars to give anybody! You think I’m made of money? I’m a young girl, I don’t have hundred dollars. You think I’m a millionaire?”
Mirna: “Haves a little bit of sympathy! As a human being! We are here at 2 in the morning. You can show me, my friend! Just show me! Please my friend, I am begging you!”
Mirna: “Horsey! I have sausage!”
Season 11, Episode 9: The Way You Look, Yeah
Charla: “They definitely don’t need a in their country.”
Mirna: “I love licorice! You know how much I love my cookies. Cookies with licorice! Can’t get better than this!”
Charla: “That’s a lot of damn cookies.”
Charla: “Oswald & Danny just came Mirna!”
Mirna: “Yeah, I see. I’m not blind!”
Mirna: “You don’t need this many newspapers, it clutters your house and then you become a clutter bug.”
Mirna: “I recruited team Charla/Mirna… youngsters. These are the future Charla and Fu warriors to go away a little. I hope they don’t fall on my head.”
Mirna: “We are trying to make love, not war.”
Mirna: “Oh, they’re making it shake. Okay, okay. No more, I’m coming to fight you. Good job Charla, this is fun, is all heck. Hong Kong! I love you!”
Season 11, Episode 11: Good Doing Business With You
On the Turbo Jet
Charla: "Whoa, it's kind of wobbly."
Mirna: "Where's that motion sickness bag when you need it?"
Kandice: "Your hair looks nice."
Mirna: Sarcastically "Thanks."
Mirna: "It would be so helpful one day, if we could drive a car."
Season 11, Episode 12: Oh My God, The Teletubbies Go To War
Eric: "Are the blonde girls here?"
Mirna: "No, I don't see anybody."
Eric: "What did the blondes do? Do you think they went to the airport to research some flights?"
Mirna: "I don't know. I mean Charla said they don't know how to use the Internet."
Charla: "No, I didn't say that. I said, I haven't seen them been using the Internet."
With accent
Mirna: You have cellphones? Call Airport, airport information. How you say airport?
Taxi Driver: "Airport."
Mirna: "Airport. You have to try to do the right accent, makes all the difference in the world."
Entering the tower, seeing all the steps
Mirna: "Oh dear, where's the elevator?"
Packing the boxes
Mirna: "You have to put the stuff in the box. Go, go, go!"
Military Person: "Put it in with some degree of love, Okay?"
Mirna: "I love it!"
Military Person: "Don't just throw it like it's garbage."
Mirna: "Okay, that's enough, that's enough. Now we weigh it. Put it down. Lower it down."
Charla: "How much do we weigh?"
Mirna: "We need to add the scales. 210, 300, 510! Yes!"
Charla: "Yes! Alright let's wrap it up!"
Mirna: "Humanitarian effort here we come! Let's go!"
To Charla
Mirna: "I'm sure you're glad we didn't join the air force."
Charla: "Wow, this is the best thing I've ever done in my life."
Mirna: "I feel like Top Gun!"
Mirna: "Oh look Charla, the box!"
Opens envelope
Mirna: "Oh, motion sickness bag!"
Pilot: "When we reach altitude, we're going to take a steep nose dive, and you will experience Zero G."
Charla: "Oh!"
Mirna: "Got my barf bag. That's all that matters."
Pilot: "Commencing dive in 3,2,1..."
Charla: "That was a blast!"
Mirna: "*laughs* I was like flying."
Most Memorable Moments with Charla and Mirna: They finished 1st in legs 5 and 6.
Season 5, Episode 5: Are You Good at Puzzles?
In Egypt
, Charla and Mirna reached a detour 3 minutes before closing.
Mirna: "Charla, they're leaving!"Mirna shrieks across the desert.Mirna: "Charla, run!"
This is also their first time to ride horses.
Mirna: "I feel like Lawrence of Arabia."Charla: "Charla and Mirna of Arabia!"