Since the show aired, two of the trainers addressed Ms. Frederickson attributed her weight loss to workouts, saying that “she takes maybe three, four classes a day.” We remain committed to helping contestants achieve healthy weight loss and live healthier lifestyles, and to inspiring viewers to do the same.” Two days after the finale, NBC and the production company, Shine America, issued a statement saying: “We support Rachel and all of ‘The Biggest Loser’ contestants who have shared their journeys over the past 15 seasons. The only difference between Rachel and me is she looked on the outside the way I was feeling on the inside, totally unhealthy.” “I feel I did a vulnerable population a disservice by not saying on television the night of my finale, ‘I’m sad, and I’m sick from being on this show,’ ” she said, recalling that her hair had begun falling out from a vitamin deficiency. Hibbard, 35, who seven years ago lost 118 pounds during her competition but has since spoken out publicly against the show’s extreme dieting and exercise regimen. “Rachel doesn’t know what damage she has done to her body and her mind, and sadly she won’t until the spotlight goes away,” said Ms. Frederickson’s winning photo, she promptly burst into tears. “NBC is about to have a public-relations nightmare.” When Ms. “Have you seen tonight’s winner?” it read. Kai Hibbard, a finalist on Season 3, was at her home in Alaska when another former contestant, whom she declined to name, sent her a message. “I had to turn away.” Another posted, “There needs to be a red line that disqualifies finalists for too much weight loss.” “I feel like Rachel lost too much,” one woman wrote. Frederickson, as the scale would soon reveal, now weighed 105 pounds, and having lost 59.62 percent of her body weight would also be the competition’s winner, making her $250,000 richer.īut as confetti dropped all around her, few were celebrating on Twitter. Frederickson, 5 feet 4 inches tall, had left the ranch for her home, her body had radically changed from the athletic 150 pounds she had weighed upon her departure to a gaunt sliver of herself, obvious despite her shimmering silver dress, strappy sandals and big grin. But on Tuesday night, when Rachel Frederickson, 24, walked onto the studio stage 155 pounds lighter than at the start of Season 15, the reaction was not one of awe, but shock, apparent even on the trainers’ frozen faces.
That episode when the finalists emerge, one by one, to bare all - or rather less - to a waiting audience of millions. It is the moment “The Biggest Loser” viewers anticipate all season.
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