She shocked the world and the trainers when US Biggest Loser winner Rachel Frederickson revealed her 70.3 kilo weight loss recently.
Now the 24-year-old has admitted she may have taken things a little too far.
“Maybe I was a little too enthusiastic in my training to get to the finale,” she revealed to People.
Rachel gained criticism over her weight and the nature of the show when she revealed her final weight loss on the NBC’s show’s finale last week.
The 5’4” competitor lost 70.3 kilos, going from 117.9 kilos to 47 kilos in a matter of months, and her record-breaking weight loss saw her take out the competition and the $US250,000 prize.
The weight loss of more than half of her body weight put her slightly below the healthy body mass index, according to the National Institute of Health, and sparked rumours of an eating disorder.
When asked “point blank” by the mag if she has an eating disorder, Rachel replied, “I am very, very healthy.”
While the show’s executive producer David Bloom said all the contestants were monitored throughout the seven-and-a-half months on the show and passed all medical tests, the trainers say they were shocked by her sudden weight loss.
“The first thing that went through my mind was, ‘That’s just too much’,” Rachel’s trainer, Dolvett Quince told the magazine.
Fellow trainers Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper were also visibly shocked during Rachel’s big reveal on the show’s finale.
The show’s producers are now considering making some “small but significant tweaks” to the series’ production including more check-ins and support following the finale.
“There might be more focus on what happens to the winner after they are supposedly done with the show,” a source close to the series told E! News.
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