Former 'Biggest Loser' contestant Kai Hibbard claims the show is a 'fat-shaming disaster'

A former contestant of NBC’s Biggest Loser is breaking her silence on shocking allegations of abuse at the hands of trainers. Kai Hibbard lost 121 pounds while on the show in 2006 but claims so have inherited health issues as a result.

In a revealing interview with the New York Post, which other contestants who chose to participate anonymously also participated in, Hibbard exposed secrets about the show.

“The whole f- -king show is a fat-shaming disaster that I’m embarrassed to have participated in,” she said.

While filming the show, when not working out or on set, contestants are barred to their hotel rooms and forbidden to leave.

An anonymous contestant also said she believes they took her laptop to bug it. “The camera light on my MacBook would sometimes come on when I hadn’t checked in,” she said about the computer when she got it back from a production assistant. “It was like Big Brother was always watching you.”

Hibbard went on to say when the 14 out of 50 contestants make it to the ranch, they’re not allowed to call anyone at home.

“You might give away show secrets,” she said.

The other contestant claimed her first workout at the ranch lasted four hours. “My feet were bleeding through my shoes for the first three weeks,” she said. But worse, she said, was the mental abuse at the hands of the trainers such as telling them they’re going to die.

“They’d get a sick pleasure out of it,” she said of their physical pain. “They’d say, ‘It’s because you’re fat. Look at all the fat you have on you.’ And that was our fault, so this was our punishment.”

All in all, Hibbard claims they did it all for “good TV” and believes she got “brainwashed.”

Despite losing all the weight – and putting some back on – she said she now has thyroid problems, suffers from hair loss and irregular periods.

The show did come under fire last year when Rachel Frederickson debuted her 105-pound figure at the finale.

Still the network defended the show, telling the Post “Our contestants are closely monitored and medically supervised. The consistent Biggest Loser health transformations of over 300 contestants through 16 seasons of the program speak for themselves.”

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