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Jillian Michaels

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

But in this category of medicine, if there's not room for body positivity, then you're in turn... I didn't say that's not the claim is that there's not room.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

I said it oversimplifies.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

It oversimplifies.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

Are you saying it oversimplifies people's trauma?

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

No, I'm telling you it oversimplifies the complexity and the depth of these types of disorders, whether it's anorexia, whether it's bulimia, whether it's binge eating disorder, whether somebody is eating, and Summer was not referring to you, somebody's eating because let's say they were molested.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

Okay, but you bringing up somebody's eating because they were molested, I mean, that's not why necessarily people are eating.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

That's what the claim is about.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

It is about the fact that people who have disordered eating and trauma, I think the body positivity movement with things like intuitive eating specifically, oversimplifying can actually give bad advice.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

But the fundamentals of the... Okay, pause.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

I've been on a diet since I was like six.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

Okay.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

You've talked a lot about trauma, being molested, parents, this and that.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

Yes.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

I've heard of... Someone mentioned the BMI.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

I've heard people use the word obese.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

Okay.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

So what is your thought on this oversimplification?

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

I think actually the medical industry and a lot of health professionals have oversimplified.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

I'm sorry if that's happened to you.

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Jillian Michaels vs 20 Body Positivity Activists

I think you're seeing the wrong people.