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Jillian Michaels

Jillian Michaels Celebrity Profile
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Date of Birth:
February 18, 1974
Height:
5' 3"
Hometown:
Los Angeles

Bio:
Jillian Michaels (born February 18, 1974 in Los Angeles, California) is an American personal trainer, businesswoman, author and television personality. She is the star of the NBC shows The Biggest Loser and Losing It with Jillian, and has appeared on the talk show The Doctors. She is also known for the BODYSHRED workout method, and has written several books, including the bestsellers Master Your Metabolism and Unlimited. She currently stars on E!’s Just Jillian.

Best Known For:
Jillian Michaels is best known for training celebrity clients and for appearing on The Biggest Loser.

Personal Life:

Jillian realized she was bisexual at age 18. She has two children with her fiancee Heidi Rhoades; the couple became engaged in March 2016. Their daughter, 2, was adopted in May 2012, and Rhoades gave birth to their son the same month.

Latest Jillian Michaels

Expert Says

Keto Diet: Can It Really Drop Pounds For You? Dietitians Give You The Do’s & Don’t’s

Celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels recently slammed the Keto Diet as unhealthy. But lots of celebs swear by it, so we had to know more. Find out how to lose weight on the Keto diet safely, here!

January 11, 2019
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Jillian Michaels Gets Naked For ‘Shape’ Magazine — See The Pics

Jillian says at 40 she’s in the best shape of her life and we must say she looks unbelievable! Check out this incredibly sexy pics and tell us what you think!
Jillian Michaels is known for whipping people into shape on her hit show Biggest Loser, but now the focus is on her own gorgeous physique. The trainer shows off her toned arms, legs, abs and more for the cover of Shape magazine and it definitely has us wishing we’d hit the gym a bit more before bikini season!

June 20, 2014

‘Biggest Loser’s Hannah Curlee & Olivia Ward: What Jillian Michaels Is Really Like

Olivia and Hannah are best known as the purple team from Season 11 of ‘The Biggest Loser.’ They spilled to HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY what they’ve been up to since the show and what the trainers are really like when the cameras are off!
Olivia Ward, winner of The Biggest Loser Season 11, and runner-up, Hannah Curlee, spilled to HollywoodLife.com in a new video interview from April 10. They reveal show secrets, share their best weight loss and diet tips and tell us what trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels are REALLY like behind the scenes!

April 18, 2013

'The Biggest Loser' Trainer Jillian Michaels Ashamed That She Couldn't Get Pregnant

Although many people thought she just didn’t want to gain the baby weight, it turns out Jillian suffers from endometriosis.
Trainer Jillian Michaels, 37, who is currently in the process of adopting a child and becoming a first-time mom, confessed over the weekend that she struggles with infertility. Last year, Jillian said she wouldn’t want to carry a baby herself because she couldn’t “handle doing that to my body.” And although that comment stirred up a lot of controversy, Jillian explains that it was not about putting on weight, but was addressing the fact that she has endometriosis. Sad news.

March 15, 2011

EXCLUSIVE! 'Biggest Loser' Cast-Off Lance Morgan Tells Us A Secret That Would Make Trainer Jillian Michaels Furious!

We hear someone cheated on his diet….which we completely sympathize with, since we’ve done it ourselves so many times before!

On this week’s Biggest Loser: Couples, we said goodbye to Texas-native Lance Morgan just one month after his wife, Melissa, got was sent packing. Now that the husband-wife team are both back at home, Lance admits he and Melissa aren’t the best diet partners — sometimes they even let each other cheat! “Well, we did enable each other one time,” the 38-year-old trucker told HollywoodLife.com March 24.
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March 24, 2010

EXCLUSIVE! Latest 'Biggest Loser' Castoff On Her War With Trainer Jillian Michaels: “She Insulted My Family!”

When people push you, do you push back or break down? Latest Loser Migdalia Sebren chose option #1 — which led to some pretty heavy on-screen catfights!

After nine seasons of The Biggest Loser, trainer Jillian Michaels, 35, has become notorious for kicking her contestants into shape by beating them down emotionally. But there’s one contestant who didn’t accept Jillian’s harsh practices and tells us she’s seeing results by doing things her way, thank you very much.

“What Jillian wanted me to do was cry and tell her why I was [obese],” Migdalia Sebren — a 28-year-old homemaker from Sanford, NC — explained exclusively to HollywoodLife.com.
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