Opinion | Kate Bernyk: 'The Biggest Loser' is back on TV. Get ready for ramped-up fat-shaming and dangerous diets. - NBCNewsTHINK
And the whole time, I'd be watching"The Biggest Loser" for the sweet validation that everything I was doing to my body — much of which was dangerous — was for my own good. I, like so many others, believed that my weight"problem" was about my weakness, my lack of self-control, my failure.
I eventually let go of my obsession with becoming thin, and NBC seemingly let go of"The Biggest Loser" when it faded out without ceremony after its final season in February 2016. But now NBCUniversal has revived the show on the USA Network this month as"Perhaps NBCUniversal executives hope that we've all forgotten that the show's"weight loss program" doesn't work in the long term: The majority of contestants.
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