Abby Rike Car Crash Comeback - Fat Confessions from Jillian Michaels
By Angela Carson
Oct 28, 2009
Jillian Michaels isn't always nasty, she says. The Biggest Loser trainer wasn't always slim either. She confesses that she was an overweight kid as a teen and a bit wild. She is promoting her new show "Losing It with Jillian" and recalls, "I was ditching school, failing classes, stealing the car, going through pretty much everything that a terrible teen goes through."
Abby Rike Car Crash Comeback
She says she succeeded in losing the weight and settling down a bit with tough love and martial arts. She once trained Abigail Rike and Life & Style has an interesting story about her that notes she faced more challenges than just losing weight on season eight of The Biggest Loser.
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She recalls an October car crash in 2006 where a speeding driver crashed head-on into the family’s Nissan minivan, killing her husband Wallace Richard “Rick” Rike, 33, and two children Macy, 5, and Caleb, just 2½ weeks.
Abby, who wasn’t in the vehicle, lost everything she cherished. On Oct. 21, during an exclusive photo shoot in NYC, Abby sat down with Life & Style saying “My life will matter again.”
Before the accident, “I wouldn’t have traded lives with any human on the planet because my life was the best,” she remembers. “After the wreck, all my roles were gone. I wasn’t a wife anymore. I wasn’t a mother anymore. I was broken and falling apart inside. There were pieces of shrapnel where my heart used to be — it was shattered.”
“You can’t bury your two children and the love of your life and think, Oh, I’m just going to be okay,” she says. Still, she began to realize, “you can’t help what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond to it.” Enter The Biggest Loser. “My journey was more about finding out where I fit into the world,” explains Abby. “For me it was truly about healing from the inside out.”
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