A mother-of-three from Adelaide says fitness stars like Michelle Bridges and Kayla Itsines are doing a 'disservice' to women. Taryn Brumfitt, 40, is a renowned body image activist and former bodybuilder who wants to take on Australia's weight loss industry. Her aim is to address celebrity personal trainers that she believes are having a negative impact on women by telling them how they can achieve a bikini body. Transformation programs like Michelle Bridges and Kayla Itsines are preying on women's insecurities and luring them into a false pretence that they will have a body as good as theirs in 12 weeks,' she told FEMAIL Taryn said one of the main problems with these kinds of programs is that they constantly share information about the diet, weight loss and the transformation but don't share the reality of the situation. They tell us about all the success stories, we see the before and after photos but we rarely hear about the kilos that are gained afterwards,' she said. It's time to pull in the Weight Watchers, the Jenny Craigs and all the transformation programs out there because they're putting people on a cycle of dieting, weight loss and weight gain. If the current weight loss solutions that are widely and aggressively promoted actually worked, then why do we have this obesity epidemic?' Michelle Bridges is on Australia's list of the countries world's richest women...
with an estimated net worth of $53 million while it has been reported that Kayla Itsines' business empire is worth more than $63 million. Taryn said that she receives messages and emails from hundreds of women every week who have been on these kind of programs and 'feel worse' about their body than when they began. I speak to psychologists who have women come into their room and say that they're a failure because they couldn't keep the weight off after completing one of these programs,' she said. These kinds of conversations are on the increase..
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By Billie Schwab Dunn For Daily Mail Australia