Jillian Michaels

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Jillian Michaels' Bio: Michaels began her career in exercise because she was overweight in her early teenage years. In 2009, on the television show The Doctors, Michaels screened a picture of herself when she was twelve years of age stating that she weighed 175 pounds and was 5 feet tall, so she was 65 pounds overweight. When she was thirteen years old, she was enrolled in a martial arts class by her mother, which was a new beginning for Michaels. Thereafter she dedicated herself to helping the overweight transform their lives and their bodies for the better.

She uses a blend of strength training techniques with her clients, including kickboxing, yoga, Pilates, plyometrics, and weight training.

Michaels is a celebrity adviser to National Day of Dance for Heart Health, an organization that encourages people to make exercise fun and to laugh, learn and dance to a healthier heart." She has several exercise DVDs, the most popular being the '30 Day Shred'.

Michaels hosted a Sunday talk radio show on Los Angeles' KFI from 2006 through 2009.

On October 21, 2008, she launched a new video game called Jillian Michaels' Fitness Ultimatum 2009 for the Wii. A year later, she launched a sequel called Fitness Ultimatum 2010.

She made her debut on episode 1 of season 1 of The Biggest Loser, in 2004. Michaels was the Red Team trainer until 2006, when she was replaced by Kim Lyons. She returned to the show in 2007 as the Black Team trainer, competing against Kim Lyons' Red Team and Bob Harper's Blue Team. Lyons did not return for the spring 2008 season, leaving Michaels as the only female trainer. Along with Bob Harper, Michaels was also a trainer in the Australian version of the show.

On December 7, 2010, Michaels announced via Twitter that the eleventh season of the show would be her last

On June 1, 2010, NBC debuted a new spin-off reality series entitled Losing It With Jillian. The show uses the "Extreme Makeover" model where she targets one family per episode and goes to the home to personally work one-on-one with them for a week, then the last five minutes of the show she returns after six-weeks of the family working on their own with a trainer that the show has paid for.

On May 6, 2011, it was announced that she had signed a multi-year deal to join CBS Television Distribution's The Doctors, as well as serve as a special correspondent on CTD's Dr. Phil. … Read more