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"The Biggest Loser" star Jillian Michaels was bullied as a child, teased relentlessly by her classmates. She told Parade that it was particularly bad in 8th grade. "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," she recalled. "It was pure hell." She switched schools.

In 9th grade, her mother enrolled her in martial arts classes. That experience kicked off a lifelong interest in fitness and weight loss, and the girl who was once bullied at lunch grew up to scream in the faces of people on television as they ate. Michaels joined the cast of "The Biggest Loser" from the show's very first season, serving as one of

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