Jillian Michaels Posts Pic Of Herself When She Was Overweight After Lizzo Blow Up – The Daily Wire

On January 8, fitness guru Jillian Michaels appeared on Buzzfeeds morning show AM to DM on Twitter.

During the segment, host Alex Berg praised singers like Lizzo for preaching self-acceptance. This led to the following exchange between Berg and Michaels:

MICHAELS: I love her music, yeah, 100%. I dont know anything about her. Im sure shes a cool, awesome chick.

BERG: Yeah, and I love that theyre putting images out there that we normally dont get to see of bodies that we dont get to see being celebrated.

MICHAELS: But why are we celebrating her body? Why does it matter? Thats what Im saying. Why arent we celebrating her music? Because it isnt going to be awesome if she gets diabetes. Im just being honest. I love her music, like, my kid loves her music, but theres never a moment when Im like, And Im so glad shes overweight. Like, why do I even care? Why is it my job to care about her weight?

Well, thats the clip that blew up on social media. Theres actually some more context. The full exchange between Berg and Michaels about fat acceptance and the unhealthy nature of obesity can be read at the end of this piece.

Following the interview, Michaels got smacked on social media for her comments about Lizzo. The fitness guru received backup as well.

On Wednesday, Michaels posted a photo to her Instagram from when she was 14 years old and 175 lbs. She captioned the image: Heres me at 50 tall and 175 lbs. If I can do it anyone can. Share your story

Some indeed shared their stories below the post.

User Kimberspores wrote: I was close to 180lbs at 53 at one point. Now Im at 145 and working on losing more with your help. I honestly have never felt more inspired than when youre yelling at me from my tv screen.

User Thesarahsaurus13 wrote: You helped me go from 165 to 120 lbs! But better than that, you give me the motivation to get up and care about myself every day! Thank you!!

Others thanked Michaels for not backing down.

User irrevelry wrote: Started following you after your comments about heavy entertainersnothing personal against overweight people its just the truth. Thank you for standing by your statements. Gravitas for sure. We need more of your voice of reason.

Michaels replied:

Honestly I was asked a question [if] I celebrate her being overweight. Had zero intention to involve her. I dont celebrate ANYONE overweight because it kills people. BUT it doesnt mean I dont celebrate the actual person. Sorta like if your best friend was a smoker you love them, celebrate them, but certainly wouldnt celebrate the fact that they smoke @prettybitches_bychloe Im looking at you.

As of publication, Michaels throwback photo has over 25,600 likes on Instagram.

Below is the full exchange between Michaels and Berg from AM to DM:

BERG: Well, youve said before that you think political correctness has gone too far in the health and fitness world. What did you mean by that?

MICHAELS: Political correctness has just, like, come so I cant even I think its insane, and its like, the pendulum, just, as far as it swings in one direction, it swings back in the other, right? And youve got these crazy extremes whereas, Oh, shes, you know, shes too fat to be a pop star! Well, you say things like that, and you know, then theres gonna be, you should never be able to say things like that, right? But for years, people were. They could fat-shame, and they could exclude people, and they could make people feel less than in all forms of media, and we should always be inclusive, but you cannot glorify obesity. Its dangerous. It kills people. Its the number one cause of bankruptcy in our country.

So, theres a middle ground here. Now its like, Oh, that woman is 250 pounds! Good for her! and its like, it shouldnt be one way or the other. Its really no ones business to comment. Its not something you should judge. Its not something you should celebrate. That womans health is up to her but, I mean, 250 pounds, I would say 999 times out of 1,000 is going to mean heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune issues, and early death.

BERG: I have to say, I personally found, and I love celebrities like Lizzo or Ashley Graham who are really preaching self-acceptance.

MICAHELS: I love her music, yeah, 100%. I dont know anything about her. Im sure shes a cool, awesome chick.

BERG: Yeah, and I love that theyre putting images out there that we normally dont get to see of bodies that we dont get to see being celebrated, and

MICHAELS: But why are we celebrating her body? Why does it matter? Thats what Im saying. Like, why arent we celebrating her music? Cause it isnt gonna be awesome if she gets diabetes. Im just being honest. I love her music, like, my kid loves her music, but theres never a moment where Im like, And Im so glad that shes overweight! Like, why do I even care? Why is it my job to care about her weight?

BERG: For a lot of people, that image resonates that they feel good enough, and actually, I want to get to a tweet about this that was in response to your conversation with Wendy Williams yesterday when you spoke a little bit about body positivity, and Cocoa Popps tweeted: Saw Jillian Michaels talk about people celebrating obesity. Body positivity isnt about celebrating being unhealthy. (and you can be overweight and be healthy.) Its embracing yourself without societys permission. Very disappointed by what she said and the presumptive tone. So, what do you say to a response like that?

MICAHELS: Okay, I would say, first of all, most people that are that are morbidly obese are not healthy. Now, if theyre working on losing weight and because theyre working out and theyre eating right you can reverse that stuff pretty quick but I mean, Ive been doing this a real long time. I have yet to meet a person thats gotten themselves to 200, 250, 300 pounds, and the doctor goes, Looking good! I mean, no. Just no. Just no. So, I would say to Cocoa Popps, like, first of all, this isnt what you do, so you dont know. You havent been to the doctor with person after person after person after person thats 100 lbs overweight and looked at their labs like, you just, you dont know. Thats not what you do.

Im not saying, and never have I said, that we shouldnt be inclusive and accepting. Im saying that I dont love Lizzo because shes overweight. I like her because of her music and by the way, if you said to me, like, Hey, Lizzo can live to be 90 and motivate people, or she can die at 60 and motivate people, why wouldnt I say, like, I really hope shes as healthy as she can be? Its not about saying that I dont respect her, [that] I dont think shes awesome. I absolutely do, but I also would hate to see her get sick, and I mean its the number one cause of bankruptcy in the country, like, come on! Its a problem. These are facts.

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