Jillian Michaels described evolving her political views as like Neo in "The Matrix.""Honestly, it felt a bit like Neo in the Matrix at first because I really did think that, you know, when you're on the left, like you're the empathetic one, you're the good guy, you're the one that 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 "who let me know that that wasn’t the case," she added."We had very many fights early on in our relationship."After that, she said she watched the "world invert.
Up was down.Right was left.
Literally.And being obese became beautiful and healthy and then COVID happened and that was another crazy moment for me.
And then I started learning that all the news I had been ingesting was a lie.COVID did not come from a bat in a wet market and it just --- Russia, Russia, Russia wasn’t real."JILLIAN MICHAELS SHREDS 'RIDICULOUS' DEMS FOR TURNING ON SETH MOULTON: THIS IS WHY YOU GOT YOUR 'BUTTS KICKED'Jillian Michaels compares her political evolution to "The Matrix." (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)Michaels admitted that she worries about political issues "all the time.
Mostly selfishly because I have two kids.And I was talking to my son today.
He’s only 14 but he’s very political.I think about the kids and the world that we’re leaving them, and I know it sounds cliché, but I was telling my son if this happens with Nithya Raman and Becerra.
That’s it."Michaels was referring to Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, a Democratic Socialist and former head of U.S.Health and Human Services under former President Biden Javier Becerra.
Raman is running for mayor of L.A.and Becerra is running for California governor.She said she asked where they wanted to go to college, saying she wanted to buy them a house there now.COMEDIAN JEFF DYE ON LEAVING LOS ANGELES AND THE POLITICS DRIVING COMEDY’S NEW DIVIDE"I want to get the kids set up.
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