Jillian Michaels Lashes Out Over 'Biggest Loser' Netflix Series Allegations
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The fitness guru says she's lawyering up.
A former coach on “The Biggest Loser” is swatting back after a Netflix docuseries about the wildly popular 2000s-era weight loss show portrayed her in a less-than-flattering light.
In a flood of Instagram posts Tuesday, Jillian Michaels posted screenshots of emails and texts between her, former co-host Bob Harper, the show’s medical consultant Dr. Robert Huizenga, and producers on the show, seeking to clear her name.
Among other claims, Netflix’s “Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser” alleges Michaels plied contestants with caffeine pills even though they were supposedly banned, restricted competitors’ calorie intakes to dangerously low levels, and denied medical care and medicine to some.
The evidence doesn’t seem to fully exculpate Michaels of any wrongdoing so much as it implicates everyone else as well.
One email from a coordinating producer appears to show them discussing obtaining a fat burner called “Stacker,” for instance, which contains sources of caffeine, in addition to other ingredients.
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