Jillian Michaels Reveals She Had a Nose Job
Credit: courtesy of Parade Magazine; Jason Merritt/Getty Images
Credit: courtesy of Parade Magazine
Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels admits that being constantly teased about her appearance led her to go under the knife.
"In eighth grade, I weighed 175 pounds and my nose was the size of a softball," Michaels, 36, tells the new issue of Parade's Healthy Style. "Once, I was sitting at lunch and got surrounded by a bunch of kids who let me have it about how ugly I was -— my unibrow, the size of my nose, the fat rolling over my jeans. It was pure hell. My mom had to pull me out and put me in another school."
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To stop the bullying, Michaels decided to do something about it: she underwent a rhinoplasty to shape her new nose.
"I had my nose done," she admits. "I felt much better about myself. Plastic surgery is a very personal decision."
Though she doesn't specify when the procedure occurred, she admits that the cosmetic surgery alone didn't help her find the confidence she'd been searching for. Inside the mag, Michaels -- whose new show, Losing It With Jillian, premiered in June -- also reveals that she's been in therapy since she was 5 years old.
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"I was a very anxious kid. I had night terrors. I couldn't breathe," she says. "I had a very strained relationship with my father, especially when my parents got divorced. I still try to go to therapy at least twice a week. It has given me the confidence to pursue the things I love, and it’s important that I don't end up playing out my own pain and insecurities with the people I'm trying to help."
But now that she's finally at peace with herself, the 5-foot-2, 120 pound exercise fanatic says she's eager to start a family -- even if that means doing it alone.
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"I'm hoping I'll have the motherhood thing figured out within five years. I was an only child for a long time, and it was lonely, so I would like to have at least two kids," Michaels says. "As long as children have love, that's all that matters, but in an ideal scenario I'd want them to have a father."
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41I don't know why anybody is surprised that she had a nose job. Hers is the standard nose job #39 found in most nose job catalogues. I liked her face better in the "before" shot when she didn't look like everybody else who selected #39.
I am picking my jaw up off the floor. People teased her for looking like THAT in high school? based on her HS picture, she was beautiful even then. there was nothing wrong with her nose. she's right, it is a personal decision to have plastic surgery, but i think it's very sad that she was made to feel ugly when she wasn't.
Jillian is a nasty witch. She's a bully and I won't watch the show regularly because of her! Odd, to think that she was ever bullied, huh?
August 04, 2010 - 11:39pm Myself Says: I can't believe that you folks read this article and then you decide to take it upon yourself to go criticize her again. Keep your opinions to yourself. That's what gets people into bad situations to begin with - because people like you choose to put other down.............ummmm hello hyprocite :)
She neglected to mention the fact that her rack is fake, too.
She is a beautiful women inside and out.
She is a beautiful women...inside and out.
Too bad this beast didn't go for a face transplant...amazing body; FUGLY face!
"SHE" looks like a MAN!!!! Vain, nasty, cruel, ugly chav!!!!
I have no comment on the nose. But I think it's interesting that she was teased so much for her schnoz and being oveweight that she had to switch schools. Maybe that's why she can yell such cutting putdowns to the Biggest Loser contestants as she works them out into a heart attack. It's like alcoholism -- you're bound to repeat what was done to you. So sad. Who cares if she had a nose job? I can't believe she says she goes to therapy twice a week??! Who's she kidding? Whatever the case, she should NOT be counseling the Biggest Loser contestants as she does. She's just a horrible mean person and I'd hate to have her as a mother. I hope she does NOT ever have kids.
Could care less if people want plastic surgery! It's your body you can do what you want with it! But I'd like to see these pics of her "FAT". She's full of crap. She was never FAT. The one picture she showed on her new show of her being FAT was like a normal perfect weight! She's full of crap.
Her old nose looked fine and fit her! When you lose weight you lose it in your face too. She should have tried THAT first!
Didn't she say couple of months ago that she will never have kids because pregnancy would ruin her body?
She was beautiful to begin with, and she's beautiful now. If she felt like she wanted to have plastic surgery to feel better about herself, then that's her personal decision. No one should criticize her, especially when she was the one who was teased and bullied as a teenager. That kind of abuse can stay with a person for life. I applaud her for getting fit and healthy, and I wish her all the best in life and hope she has a family of her own someday.
Well bb, if you read the article you would see why it was so hard to "just accept herself as she was". She just said was teased mercilessly and then you people still find room to talk about her. Grow the hell up. This is what's wrong with our society. BTW, I'm so glad that damn slanted script is gone. My eyes couldn't take it.
I WOULD LOVE FOR MY ARMS TO LOOK LIKE HERS.. MAN SHE HAS AN AWESOME BODY. I HAVE BEEN WORKING OUT AND EATING HEALTHIER FOR 5 MONTHS AND I HAVE LOST 20 POUNDS AND I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER ABOUT MYSELF. I AM NOT GIVING UP I WANT TO CONTINUE TO LOOK AWESOME AND NEVER GO BACK TO BEING LAZY AND FAT. JILLIAN IS MY HERO....
BTW I admire Jillian so much....she is a role model for young women to stay strong in the race of adversity and to come out even stronger, and richer :), in the end.....plus she has some kick@ss fitness information....
she looks beautiful in either pic....It's taken me a long time to realize that you shouldn't give a sh!t what ANYBODY thinks about how you look....if you are happy with your looks, all the a@@holes criticizing you can go F themselves.....In reality, the majority of the time it's jealousy that causes them to taunt, and they just want you to feel as sh!tty about yourself and as they do about themselves....Don't EVER stoop to their level and allow anyone to make you feel like cr@p because of a supposed large nose or whatever it happens to be their picking on about you....If you want to do something to change your looks, surgery or whatever, do it for YOU not for someone else....If you do it for someone else, you will truly never to be happy inside.....
I could pick out that she had a nose job from a mile away. I think her original nose was much nicer. Pity she couldn't just accept herself as she was.
Myself: Isn't that what you just did,dummy . . .opine!!!