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Jillian Michaels Says 'Gay Thing' Is Hard For Her, It Would Be A 'Dream' To Be 'Normal'
Oct 17, 2014, 01:47 PM EDT | Updated Feb 2, 2016
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Jillian Michaels may not be as comfortable with her association with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community as you might expect.
The former "Biggest Loser" trainer recently sat down with Health magazine to discuss her life after the show, how she stays fit now and her identity as a queer woman. While she may be in a relationship with a woman, the "gay thing," as she puts it, is still something that she struggles to talk openly about. She told Health:
"I don’t know that I am [comfortable talking about being gay] now, to be honest with you. The gay thing has always been hard for me. When Heidi and I are out and somebody older asks, ‘Are you sisters?’ I say, ‘We’re friends.’ I guess it comes from thinking that they will be shocked or disturbed. Look, I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be ‘normal’ like that, but I’m just not.
The public first learned about Michaels' sexuality in 2010 when she told Ladies Home Journal , “Let’s just say I believe in healthy love. If I fall in love with a woman, that’s awesome. If I fall in love with a man, that’s awesome. As long as you fall in love… it’s like organic food. I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!”
In 2012 the star's partner, Heidi Rhoades, gave birth to a baby boy two weeks before the couple adopted a daughter from Haiti.
For the full Health interview with Michaels head here .

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Jillian Michaels is engaged to DeShanna Marie Minuto after three years of dating.
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Jillian Michaels is engaged to her longtime love, DeShanna Marie Minuto.
The fitness instructor, 47, revealed the exciting news via Instagram on Sunday, writing, “1153 days… here’s to thousands more. She said ‘yes’ .”
Michaels revealed to People that she popped the question to Minuto, 36, on Saturday with a 7-carat emerald-cut diamond that was crafted by a family friend and specialty jeweler at H&H Jewelers in Miami.
“DeShanna is ‘all the things’ — beautiful, smart, funny, creative, quirky, passionate … I could run down the list of adjectives,” Michaels told the outlet. “Those characteristics obviously attract you to someone. But it’s the quality of their character that makes you think, ‘Thank God for this person laying next to me’ every night when you fall asleep.”
“It’s easy to stay together when everything is going great, but when real life sets in and things get messy, challenging, scary, and even downright ugly — that’s when the truth reveals itself,” she continued. “And this woman has revealed herself to be strong beyond measure, wise beyond her years, and loving beyond my wildest dreams. I am so grateful to officially call her mine.”
The engagement news comes shortly after the two celebrated their third anniversary as a couple. The Fitness App by Jillian Michaels creator documented the special day with a selfie that appeared to be taken from their bed.
“’We are all asleep until we fall in love.’ Happy Anniversary @deshannamarie I adore you,” she captioned it.
Michaels has been dating Minuto since 2018, after calling off her previous engagement to Heidi Rhoades after nearly a decade together.
Michaels and Rhoades share two children: daughter Lukensia, 11, and son Phoenix, 9. They adopted Lukensia from Haiti in 2012, while Rhoades gave birth to Phoenix that same year.

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It’s enough to make Reverend Alden — the virtuous pastor on the hit TV series “Little House on the Prairie” — choke on his Communion wine.
Actress Karen Grassle, who played Caroline “Ma” Ingalls on the ’70s and early ’80s show, has revealed how Michael Landon , who portrayed her wholesome onscreen husband, would openly talk about his “revived libido” on set.
“I didn’t want to think about his penis,” Grassle recalls in her forthcoming memoir, “ Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Life, Loss and Love from Little House’s Ma ” (She Writes Press), out Nov. 16.
Landon wouldn’t shut up about the wondrous effects of a natural supplement he’d recently started taking to improve his sex life.
“Mike began to arrive jubilant at the makeup table, crowing about the benefits of bee pollen for the aging male,” Grassle writes.
It wasn’t long before the rest of the cast and crew discovered the reason behind his boastful claims: The married actor was having an affair with Cindy Clerico, then a teenager who was working as a stand-in for his co-star Melissa Francis (Cassandra Cooper Ingalls). The 18-year-old woman was more than 20 years Landon’s junior.
The fallout from the scandal, which made headlines, was sorely felt by everyone on the tight-knit set.
The cast and crew were deeply disappointed by the liaison between their charismatic boss and Clerico, whom Grassle described as “a nice young woman” with a penchant for “cute, colorful tops” and “tight jeans that had been made popular by ‘Charlie’s Angels.’”
According to Grassle, co-star Katherine “Scottie” MacGregor, who played snobby store owner Harriet Olsen, found the early ’80s affair particularly distasteful. She already had a strained relationship with Landon, caused by her disproportionately low salary, and this only made things worse.
“It was mostly the lack of appreciation,” Grassle told The Post of MacGregor’s dim view of Landon. “But it was also the way he treated women in general.”
It has been widely reported that MacGregor, who died in 2018 at the age of 93, was on a holistic retreat in India and therefore unavailable to appear in the 1984 “Little House” TV movie, which had been designed by Landon to put the series to rest.
But Grassle revealed the truth to The Post: “[MacGregor] refused to take part,” she said. “After all Scottie had been through with Mike, she didn’t want to have anything to do with him and the reunion.”
Making Landon’s affair with Clerico worse, most of the ensemble was friendly with his then-wife, Lynn.
“I knew his wife,” Grassle writes in her book. “I had been in their home. She had been kind to me. And I thought about her children — there were three of them still at home … and younger than Cindy.”
She went on to describe how Lynn had “done everything his [Landon’s] way,” looking after the family while the actor worked long hours, playing hostess at his business dinners and “staying home on Christmas Eve when he was gambling at the office.”
According to Grassle, Landon’s adultery, which ultimately led to him marrying Clerico in 1983, developed after the teen — with whom he spoke “longer than he talked to anyone else” on set — lent him a copy of the Nancy Friday book “My Mother, My Self.”
“Then they began to walk further away from the action, engrossed in conversation and each other,” Grassle writes. “It was awkward as hell for us in the company. Everyone saw. Everyone looked away.”
When Lynn found out, she followed Landon and his squeeze to their secret love nest. The media reported how Lynn allegedly threw a bottle of vodka at the head of “America’s favorite dad.”
There was much back-and-forth as Landon first announced he was returning to Lynn — even reportedly arranging to renew their marriage vows — before he rode off into the sunset with Clerico, who got pregnant before her lover’s divorce was finalized.
“The bee pollen was really something,” Grassle quips in “Bright Lights, Prairie Dust.”
Later, Clerico was reintroduced to the “Little House” set as a makeup artist — the cast disparagingly called her “that makeup artist” — and she would anger them by arriving in a Porsche.
While the damage to Landon’s clean-cut image caused him to lose advertising deals including one with Kodak, this was nothing compared to the loss of respect from co-stars such as Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls.
Gilbert had always looked up to him as a father figure. But she shunned him when news of his extramarital fling broke, refusing to attend his third wedding.
She wrote in her own memoir, “Prairie Tale,” how she learned about the surprise break-up with Landon’s wife when her mother told her that “Auntie Lynn and Mike” were parting ways.
Gilbert, who was so close to the Landons that she frequently vacationed with the family in Hawaii, added: “I have to work with Mike. I can’t take sides, yet he’s done something that’s turned my world into angry, opposing sides.
“I was put in a horribly, uncomfortable position.”
As for Clerico and Landon, they stayed together until 1991, when the father of nine died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 54.

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What do you mean you didn’t know Jillian Michaels is gay? As the celebrity trainer’s joyous baby news spreads, fans react to a particular fact that almost flew under the gossip radar.
Jillian Michaels ‘ gay status seems to have gone unnoticed by many fans — until now. While her coming out has been decidedly subtle, there’s nothing left to question now that she and partner Heidi Rhoades are the parents of two !
On the heels of Jillian Michaels’ adoption of a daughter — and simultaneous arrival of a baby boy — some fans are wondering how they could have missed that the former Biggest Loser buff is gay.
The subject of much gossip and speculation, Jillian Michaels most notably broke the ice about her sexuality in 2010. Speaking to Ladies Home Journal she explained, “If I fall in love with a woman, that’s awesome. If I fall in love with a man, that’s awesome. As long as you fall in love… It’s like organic food. I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!”
Other sources point to a 2005 interview with Larry King as Jillian Michaels’ coming out moment. The host said to her, “Jillian, before we talk to our two guys, what’s — do you have — I know the place that you and your partner own is Sky Sport and Spa.”
Without clarifying whether King meant romantic or business partner, the trainer replied simply, “Yes.” The facility is now owned by Jackie Warner , who was featured in the reality show Work Out.
In 2011 After Ellen alleged that while Jillian Michaels’ choice to keep her private life quiet may have been hers alone, NBC seemed determined to keep their trainers from speaking to the gay press. A post on the site reads in part, “The fitness guru doesn’t talk much about her personal life in the press, and has never spoken to the LGBT media. There is speculation about her relationship with another woman based on information on her public Facebook and Twitter accounts, but Michaels has never made an official statement about it.”
Despite the long-held speculation and near confirmations about Jillian Michaels’ sexuality, many fans were shocked to hear she and partner Heidi Rhoades are now the mothers of two. One Twitter user commented Wednesday, “I didn’t know Jillian Michaels is gay! She just adopted a 2yo and her partner had a baby. How awesome for them!!!”
Another commenter reacted by writing, “I [knew] Jillian was a lesbian (she had previously dated Vanessa Marcil) but had no idea that Heidi was even expecting! Jillian is top-notch when it comes to keeping secrets, which I think is fantastic. I’m thankful she let the world know when SHE was ready to and I couldn’t be happier for the entire family.”
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