1. Jillian Michaels was born on February 18,1974 and is an American fitness trainer, nutritionist, businesswoman, media personality, and author.
26 Facts About Jillian Michaels
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Jillian Michaels is best known for her appearances on NBC series such as The Biggest Loser.
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Jillian Michaels has made an appearance on the talk show The Doctors.
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Jillian Michaels was born in Los Angeles on February 18,1974, the daughter of psychotherapist JoAnn, and lawyer Douglas McKarus.
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Jillian Michaels's mother is Jewish and her father is of Syrian descent.
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Jillian Michaels was raised in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Jillian Michaels was heavy in her youth, using food to comfort herself, which became more pronounced at age 13 when her parents divorced.
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Jillian Michaels's mother enrolled her in martial arts classes to help her deal with stress, the result of which was Jillian focusing on health, wellness and fitness.
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Jillian Michaels attended California State University, Northridge, supporting herself as a bartender and personal trainer during that time.
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Jillian Michaels has developed a continuing education series for trainers with AFAA and holds a nutrition and wellness consultant certificate with the American Fitness Professionals and Associates.
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Jillian Michaels has authored 9 books on health and wellness topics with eight New York Times Best Sellers New York Times Best Seller list.
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Since February 2011, Jillian Michaels has hosted a weekly podcast, Keeping It Real, through iTunes.
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Jillian Michaels recently formed a partnership with Bill Maher's Club Random to expand her audio podcast "Keeping It Real" to video.
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Jillian Michaels launched her company Empowered Media LLC in 2008 and released her fitness video membership website called Fitfusion.
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Jillian Michaels was a trainer on the reality series The Biggest Loser when the show started in October 2004.
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Jillian Michaels returned to the show in 2007 as the Black Team trainer competing against Lyons' Red Team and Bob Harper's Blue Team.
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On December 7,2010, Jillian Michaels announced via Twitter that the eleventh season of the show would be her last.
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Jillian Michaels made her last appearance on The Biggest Loser on May 24,2011.
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Jillian Michaels returned for Season 15, which premiered on October 15,2013, on NBC, but did not return for Season 16 which aired in the fall of 2014.
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On May 6,2011, CBS Television Distribution announced that Jillian Michaels had signed a multi-year deal to become a co-host of the panel-discussion show The Doctors, as well as to serve as a special correspondent on the CTD program Dr Phil.
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Jillian Michaels had been a guest on The Doctors several times previously.
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Jillian Michaels left The Doctors in January 2012 after half a season, because, she said, the arrangement "wasn't the fit both the show and I hoped for".
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Jillian Michaels devotes time to animal welfare causes, and helped PETA rescue a racehorse from a slaughterhouse in 2012.
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From 2009 to 2018, Jillian Michaels was in a relationship with Heidi Rhoades.
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In 2018, Jillian Michaels began a relationship with fashion designer Deshanna Marie Minuto.
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In 2024, Michaels frequently expressed support for Robert F Kennedy Jr.