Why jillian michaels left

All rights reserved. Suggest a correction. What's Hot. More In Entertainment. Country's T. This is Michael's third time leaving the NBC reality hit she returned in Season 14 , but it looks like this exit will be a permanent one. In an interview with People , Michaels is opening up about her "sad" decision to leave the show and how Frederickson's controversial win made her take "a hard look" at The Biggest Loser Season 13 champ Jeremy Britt lost an astonishing pounds from a high of , effectively shedding more than half of his body weight during the competition.

His weight loss was actually a family affair: his sister Conda competed with him and lost pounds along the way, and his effort inspired his mom to lose 50 pounds as well. John Rhode sealed the win in by ending the season pounds lighter. Rhode entered the competition weighing pounds, and after working with trainer Bob Harper he had lost nearly half of his body weight.

Olivia Ward lost pounds after competing in the 11th season of "The Biggest Loser," which not only helped her feel healthier but also put her in first place. Patrick House began season 10 of the competition at pounds. By the time he'd sweated through to the end, he had lost pounds and gained a book deal. Season 9's Mike Ventrella inspired viewers everywhere when he dropped from pounds to Charles Daniel Cahill claimed the season 8 title by shedding pounds.

He began the competition at and walked away from it weighing Boasting over a whopping 20 workout DVDs, Michaels has, of course, adapted with the times and now has her own workout app. And although she's earned a pretty nasty reputation as a coach on TV, she's garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews about her handy pocket trainer. While the Malibu-based trainer eventually left The Biggest Loser more on that later , that doesn't mean she hasn't stopped with some of her more questionable antics.

Let's take a look at the shady truth about Jillian Michaels. Jillian Michaels has always been known to speak her mind, and while she sometimes gets away with it relatively easily, the public had a bone to pick with the fitness trainer when she chose to go after one of the music industry's national treasures: Lizzo. Why does it matter? Why aren't we celebrating her music? She went on, "Because it isn't going to be awesome if she gets diabetes.

I'm just being honest. Like, I love her music But there's never a moment where I'm like, 'And I'm so glad that she's overweight!

Why is it my job to care about her weight? Of course, almost immediately, critics slammed Michaels for being "fatphobic" while disguising it with concern. The backlash eventually even caused the personal trainer to take to Twitter and issue an apology, along with explaining her original statement further to E!

Unfortunately for Michaels, it seemed the damage was already done. Not to mention, the reality TV weight-loss competition also got its fair share of criticism thanks to Michaels' perceived mentally and physically harmful antics.

As a article in The Guardian noted, "Fitness experts have repeatedly called Michaels' practices on The Biggest Loser into question. Ed Tyson, explained to the publication. If that's not all, results uncovered during follow-ups with some of the series' alums have been upsetting, as many contestants have simply regained all the weight that they lost.

As the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases revealed to The New York Times in , "As the years went by and the numbers on the scale climbed, the contestants' metabolisms did not recover It was as if their bodies were intensifying their effort to pull the contestants back to their original weight. When it came to some of the weight-loss tactics used on The Biggest Loser , it looked as though even Jillian Michaels had a moment of realization.

Speaking to the Daily Mail about her third and final departure from the series in , Michaels cited that her reason had to do with butting heads with the show's producers over certain "changes.

So, what could those differences in opinion be, exactly? One thing is for certain, Michaels was wracked with guilt over the weight loss of some of the show's contestants, such as Rachel Fredrickson. As Michaels told the Daily Mail , she felt "ashamed" to be a part of Fredrickson's whopping pound weight loss: "I thought she lost too much weight without a doubt