Biggest Loser Contestant Says Show Gave Her Eating Disorder
Although Kai Hibbard had great success on the show with a total weight loss of 118, she is accusing The Biggest Loser of being responsible for her developing an eating disorder. She claims it got so bad her hair fell out and her family and friends had to stage an intervention before she started eating again.
“I found myself loathing what I looked like the more weight that I dropped because of the pressure on me,” Hibbard said. “I found myself doing things like considering coffee a meal. And because of the pressures on the show it was considered acceptable to behave that way.”
Hibbard also alleged the show misrepresented how much time had passed – it was often more than a week – and encouraged contestants to exercise while severely injured and diet by dehydration to make the numbers on the scale drop dramatically.
“Before I went on the show I never learned how to dehydrate to manipulate a scale,” she said. “And when I left I knew how to do it better than some fitness competitors.”
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