Jillian Michaels says life ‘shouldn’t be political’
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Jillian Michaels described changing her political views as Neo in “The Matrix.”
“Honestly, it felt like Neo in the Matrix at first because I thought, you know, if you’re on the left, like you’re a compassionate person, you’re a good guy, you’re the one who cares about people,” the 52-year-old fitness icon told Dave Rubin on his “The Rubin Report” podcast.
Part of her evolution involved marrying a conservative man who “let me know it wasn’t right,” she added. “We had a lot of fights early in our relationship.”
After that, he said he watched “the world turn upside down. Up was down. Right was left. Actually. And fat got good and healthy and then COVID happened and that was another crazy time for me. Then I started reading that all the stories I was fed were lies. COVID didn’t come off the bat in a wet market and it just came out — Russia, Russia, Russia was not true.”
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Jillian Michaels compares her political evolution to “The Matrix.” (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)
Michaels admitted that he is worried about political issues “all the time. Especially selfishly because I have two children. And I was talking to my son today. He is only 14 years old but he is very political. I think about the children and the country that we are leaving them, and I know it sounds strange, but I was telling my son if this happened with Nithya Raman and Becerra.
Michaels was referring to Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, a Democratic Socialist and former head of US Health and Human Services under former President Biden Javier Becerra. Raman is running for mayor of LA and Becerra is running for governor of California.
He said he asked where they wanted to go to college, and he said he wanted to buy them a house right away.
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“I want to stop the children. I worry about them. I worry about them living in this place,” he admitted. “I’m worried about the political situation. I worry all the time. It’s terrible.”
Michaels and his wife moved their family from California to Wyoming in 2021.
Later in the podcast, he reflected on libertarians believing that “privilege is evil.”
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“All the news they watch tells them that,” she said. “All they read, all they see is ‘We’re fascists, we’re racists, we’re Nazis. ‘Oh, you want a voter ID? Because you’re racist.’
Jillian Michaels said she is married to a conservative. (Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
He said that if people hear that enough, it’s hard to get over that “this is completely messed up. They look at you like you’re wearing a tinfoil hat, and you’ve always gone down the rabbit hole.”
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He said what he thinks “turns a person to the left, that’s where he comes from… It happens to everyone. Let’s hope it’s not too late.”
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And while he says it’s important to be aware of what’s going on in the world, “everything is a balance. Because if you don’t know what’s going on – I think Jesse Kelly said this to me – if you pay attention, you’re destined to be ruled by idiots and monsters. And that’s unacceptable.”
Jillian Michaels speaks at a press conference behind a panel of residents and business owners to discuss rebuilding efforts following the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades. (Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group)
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But he said at once, “That can’t just be your media fodder. And sometimes I’ll forcefully change my algorithm and watch people do amazing things with each other.”
He added that he has started adding people from different walks of life helping each other to the end of his “Keeping It Real” podcast.
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“And it reminds you that most of us are good people,” she said. “We just have different ideas about how to achieve the same goals. And we have to continue to see the humanity in each other, and force, literally force the algorithm to show us those things instead of ‘Look at this dumb-left and look at this right-wing prejudice. That’s engineering. Fight against that algorithm. It’s designed to engage in a fight against the enemy from above, so we never look up.”
He added, jokingly, “which is Gavin Newsom, in case you were wondering.”
