Jillian Michaels
Under most circumstances, the Santa Monica garden where Jillian Michaels is striking pose after pose would be a delightful place to spend an afternoon. But not today. Today, it's 55 degrees with a fierce wind blowing. And for the past eight hours, Jillian has been prancing around — and shivering — in skimpy summery outfits designed to show off every muscle on her 5-foot-2½-inch frame. Her muscles are, after all, one of her trademarks, part of the reason America looks to her when they want to get fit. Even if Jillian, 36, insists that at the moment she's "not in shape," she looks as if she could arm wrestle Schwarzenegger — and win.
Despite the winterlike weather — this is California, after all — Jillian jokes with the crew and drops
She is a famous trainer that uses a blend of kickboxing, yoga, pilates, plyometrics, and weight training on her clients.
obscenities with disarming humor. "It's a foul habit," Michaels says happily. "But it's like — look, I barely drink alcohol, I never party. I swear. It's disgusting. I'm sorry. I'm working on it."
It's just this take-me-as-I-am attitude that has helped make Jillian one of the most popular women on TV today, not to mention a budding mogul. She's got books. And exercise DVDs. And nutritional supplements. There's a little TV phenomenon called The Biggest Loser, on which she's still playing drill-sergeant-with-a-heart-of-gold. And now she has her own show on NBC, Losing It With Jillian, where she moves in for a week with families to help them confront all of their issues, not just the ones related to weight.
"The new show is really about reclaiming your life," says Jillian, now taking a break from the cameras and snuggled in a robin's-egg-colored bathrobe. "Because when something is intrinsically off and when you right that internal wrong, things will fall into place." Her approach quickly won over the Mastropietros, the first family Jillian met on Losing It. "At first, we were like, 'What are we getting ourselves into?'" says Agnes, the family's mom. "But after our workout, she'd put her arms around us.... Jillian is so compassionate. We've invited her to my daughter's wedding, and she's coming; she'll be sitting at the head table!"
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