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Published: 00:36 BST, 23 July 2012 | Updated: 04:48 BST, 23 July 2012
Former Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels enjoyed a double dose of happiness in May after welcoming two children into her home in two weeks.
The 38-year-old took home a two-year-old girl, Lukensia, from Haiti on May 12 following a lengthy adoption process.
And then it has emerged that her secret lesbian partner Heidi Rhoades gave birth to a son Phoenix just two weeks earlier.
New family: Fitness guru Jillian Michaels visited the Farmers Market in Malibu with her partner Heidi Rhoades, her daughter Lukensia and newborn Phoenix today
Two months in and the modern family are doing just fine, as they were pictured hitting up the Malibu Farmers Market with a male friend.
Looking casual in jeans and jumper paired with flip flops, Jillian kept her arms free to gather groceries while Heidi carried little Phoenix and Lukensia got a ride with a male friend.
Jillian, who revealed she was bisexual in 2011, has been quietly dating Rhoades, 31, for three years and says she is thrilled to watch her family grow.
Little darling: Lukensia seems to be settling in really well with her new family
The look of love: Jillian beamed at her daughter during the family outing
'Seeing my two kids together is a magical feeling,' she tells People magazine. 'Motherhood changes your DNA. My kids are now an integral part of who I am.'
But the rapid expansion certainly came as a surprise, with Rhodes adding: 'It's not the way we had planned it! But that's how our life works. It's always big. It could never be something like one child at a time.'
Hand in hand: The family looked like they were enjoying their lazy Sunday as they held hands and strolled together
Hands on mother: Jillian protectively wrapped her arms around Lukensia as they checked out what was on offer at the Farmer's Market
Mum's the word: Jillian has quickly adapted to her new role as a mother
The couple declined to reveal details of their son's biological father or what method Rhoades used to conceive.
Jillian told the publication that she hadn't been to the gym for two weeks and had a new appreciation for the many mothers she coached.
'I have yet to figure out how to take care of myself right now.'
Doting: The 38-year-old spent several years trying to adopt a child
'Telling moms "You need to put yourself first"?' she says, rolling her eyes. 'It's impossible to put yourself first when your a mom.'
'You have to sacrifice and grow up.'
Jillian left The Biggest Loser last year to focus on becoming a mother, and was replaced by Anna Kournikova.
'Magical': Jillian says motherhood 'changes your DNA'
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Jillian Michaels: Lesbian Trainer Sets the Record Straight
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Reality star on reclaiming gay slurs and how Madonna helped her come out
The “shred” will put you through the sweat fires of hell, but despite her extreme workouts, Jillian Michaels wants you to know she is no monster. To set the record, ahem, straight, the out fitness guru is opening the doors to her very “normal,” sometimes-emotional, not-at-all-what-you-thought life during E!’s “Just Jillian,” where she laughs (you read that right) and… cries?!
Yes, that Jillian Michaels – the Butt Kicker from The Biggest Loser – cries actual human tears.
As if that revelation wasn’t enough, there were many more made during this recent chat with Michaels, who talked about her reputation being “destroyed” by The Biggest Loser, why she uses the word “fag” and how, after a long road to self-acceptance, Madonna empowered her to confront her sexuality.
Was being out on TV – with a family, even: your partner, Heidi Rhoades, and your two children – something you ever imagined for yourself?
You know, it’s interesting that you ask that. I know I’m sort of in that very pivotal generation, right? I’m on the younger end of Gen X, and for me, growing up gay was not cool. Gay was gross. Gay was despicable. People said the word “faggot.” People said “dyke” – I heard that a lot in high school. And it was very scary. I have watched as a people and as a country and a culture over the course of my teenage-into-adulthood life and I do still think there is a tremendous amount of homophobia that exists. And I’ve never been out there with my gay flag; I wanted to take an approach of, “Hey, I don’t need to win you over and I don’t need to fight with you and I don’t want to combat you.” But what I do hope is that people observe me, observe my family, and go, “Oh my god, this isn’t at all what I thought it was. This is actually pretty similar to my family; they’re going through things that my family goes through.” And that’s always been my approach. I don’t need to make these big statements. I’m just going to live my life and my truth and hopefully as you observe that it will become a little more – and I have so much trouble with this word – normalized for people who don’t perceive it as the norm.
I was struck by the use of “queer” in the show. Some people who are older than us hear queer and still find it offensive, whereas our generations have embraced the term as being all-encompassing of any sexual orientation that isn’t straight. Where do you stand on labels? Do you have a preference?
What’s interesting is, I take a very African-American-using-the-“n-word” approach with those terms. I’ve claimed them all. I use “homo” and joke about it. I use “dyke” and joke about it. My gay male friends and I use “fag” and joke about it. We’ve taken them all back and made them our own.
What we’ve tried to do is take some of the venom out of the terms by reclaiming them – and I hate to draw this reference – but in the same way the black community has taken back the “n-word.” We don’t allow them to harm us or hurt us and there could be a whole psychology about why we do, but we all do. It’s like, I own these words, they’re my words, and I’ve suffered enough to be able to take them on and wear them with pride, so to speak. None of those words actually have any venom in them for me anymore and I don’t really care who’s swinging them at me – it doesn’t mean anything to me. People can judge it but that’s just something that I’ve done and it is what it is.
Do you regret doing The Biggest Loser?
Good question. There’s this Latin quote that I heard and it summarizes The Biggest Loser perfectly: “That which nourishes me also destroys me.” I’m super grateful for the platform I was given. Obviously I owe everything I have to that diving board, that jumping-off point. But there does come a point where you definitely overstay your welcome, where something starts to become more limiting, it starts to do more harm than it does good, and that was definitely a source of frustration for me. I don’t think it’s a secret – I have been vocal about it – but to say that I’m not grateful for the opportunity and for all it’s done for me would be obtuse, absurd and obnoxious, but I’m not gonna lie and say it didn’t also cost me a host of problems on the backend.
Now, I’m hoping this show is really just my best foot forward and the thing is, I am sarcastic and I am obnoxious but I’m also loving and I’m also passionate and I’m also caring and I’m all those things. At least now if people hate me, they’ll hate me for a legitimate reason – that I’m really excited about! (Laughs) At least they’ll hate me for a reason that’s real.
You’ve been called a bully to overweight people and I know that must be hard to hear for somebody who was bullied.
It’s a shame. For somebody who comes to an environment where they’re literally committing suicide with food, let’s cut the shit. Some of them are 400 or 500 pounds, they’re killing themselves with food and the amount of time they have left is five or 10 years; if they’re lucky, 15. It’s suicide with food. In some cases I would have a week with one of these people, so I will try everything under the sun, but if I can’t do it with hugs, love and kisses, then I’m gonna do what it takes. What people should really pay attention to is, I was less concerned with being likable than getting done what I needed to get done.
It was a series of things… it was a process. Basically it was a combination of getting involved in martial arts and having these small successes within martial arts, which empowered me to start taking steps in my personal life, in my relationships, in my professional life, and then, honestly, when it comes to accepting my sexuality – I didn’t even know I was (gay) until later in life. I mean, I realized I was bisexual at about 18 but I didn’t even realize I was gay until into my 20s.
I think what helped that, and I know this sounds ridiculous, but Madonna and her “Justify My Love” video made a really big difference for my generation because (being gay) wasn’t something that was disgusting and gross – just something that became cool overnight, thanks to Madonna. That allowed me to feel less ashamed – it became almost cool to explore it – and, unfortunately or fortunately, that exploration was not just an exploration, it wasn’t just me experimenting. It turns out that was what was going on with me throughout all my teenage years. I really didn’t know. I really thought something was wrong with me. I didn’t know that I liked women, but I knew I didn’t like men. I knew when I was a kid I didn’t want to be physical with my boyfriends. Didn’t wanna make out with them. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me.
Then when I became 18 and I was kissed by a girl, like a Katy Perry song, I shit you not, I was like, “Oh my god, this is what’s been going on all these years.” The light bulb went off in me and I’m like, “I’ve been fucking gay this whole time,” and I, honest to god, was in such deep denial that I had no idea until that moment.
Chris Azzopardi is the editor of Q Syndicate. Reach him via his website at www.chris-azzopardi.com and on Twitter (@chrisazzopardi).
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By Marta Djordjevic / Updated: June 23, 2021 4:56 pm EDT

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Jillian Michaels isn't exactly a celeb known for having a calm and friendly demeanor. The personal trainer, who skyrocketed onto the A-list with her work on NBC's The Biggest Loser , quickly became notorious for her aggressive approach to coaching — from her obscenity-ridden screams to pushing people to their literal physical breaking points . "They'd get a sick pleasure out of it," contestant Kai Hibbard claimed to the New York Post , referring to the trainers on the series. "They'd say, 'It's because you're fat. Look at all the fat you have on you.' And that was our fault, so this was our punishment." Simply put, Michaels could easily be considered the Gordon Ramsay of personal training.
Still, long before the rise of Instagram-based "fitspo" influencers, such as Kayla Itsines , the Just Jillian star continued to dominate the fitness scene. 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 .
The Biggest Loser alum found herself swimming in controversy following a January 2020 interview with BuzzFeed News ' morning show, AM to DM . It all started with an innocent opinion from host Alex Berg, who praised A-listers such as Lizzo and Ashley Graham. "I love that they're putting images out there that we normally don't normally get to see of bodies that we don't get to see being celebrated." Michaels' response? "Why are we celebrating [Lizzo's] body? Why does it matter? ... Why aren't we celebrating her music?" Uh-oh. 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 ... my kid loves her music. But there's never a moment where I'm like, 'And I'm so glad that she's overweight!' Like, why do I even care? 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! News . Unfortunately for Michaels, it seemed the damage was already done.
During Jillian Michaels' time as coach of The Biggest Loser (or perhaps reign of terror ... however you may look at it), the personal trainer rocked the boat with her infamously aggressive and loud demeanor. 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 2016 article in The Guardian noted, "Fitness experts have repeatedly called Michaels' practices on The Biggest Loser into question." The outlet went on to list all of the instances where Michaels appeared to go too far, such as causing someone to dehydrate so severely they urinated blood . "Contestants are absolutely at a greater risk of developing eating disorders as a result of being on the show," eating disorder physician, Dr. Ed Tyson, explained to the publication. "It's a very high risk."
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 2016, "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." Scary.
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 2014, Michaels cited that her reason had to do with butting heads with the show's producers over certain "changes." While the personal trainer didn't specify what exactly that meant, she shared the following: "Over the years we've had many differences in opinion on how I thought things should be and producers thought things should be and I didn't quit." Hmm.
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 155-pound weight loss: "I thought she lost too much weight without a doubt ... You've got to take responsibility for it ... I felt actually pretty ashamed ... I've come to a point in my career where I have to have control and that's where I'm out."
However, it seems as though the feeling was mutual regarding Michaels' departure. As TBL host, Bob Harper, told Us Weekly
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