After her 3-year-old son lost a battle with cancer, Anna Wright started gaining weight. When she joined The Biggest Loser, she was up to 330 lbs., but lost 49 lbs. on the Ranch, where she learned to eat healthy foods and to exercise. The show, Wright says, also helped her learn to cope with the loss of a child. "I did learn that crying is healthy," says the Atlanta-based songwriter, whose elimination aired last week. "Being on The Biggest Loser helped me tear down this wall and start rebuilding myself."When her son died, Wright, 39, says she was forced to be a "superwoman,...
- 11/9/2010
- by Melody Chiu
- PEOPLE.com
Anna Wright weighed 330 pounds at her first weigh-in for "The Biggest Loser," and she was eager to go to the ranch. She had gained the weight following the death of her 3-year-old son, which was followed by the death of her father. But as so often happens on the weight-loss series, Anna was put to a test … and she failed. So she didn't get to immediately go to the ranch. Rather, she was sent home with the hope that she would earn her way there, which she did by losing 39 pounds at home. So Anna was a latecomer to the ranch, putting a target on her back, but she was given the power of dividing the contestants into the blue team and the black team. She could have chosen immunity for herself that first night, but instead she chose to put herself on the black team so she would be...
- 11/3/2010
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
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