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I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.
Richard Simmons
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Richard Simmons
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 12
Actor
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Professional Fitness Coach
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.
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For my workout, I'm up at 4am. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done. One day I'll tone - chest, back and shoulders - and the next day it's biceps and triceps. I also do 45 minutes of cardio every day. I do that before I even leave the house.
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Every day after school, for three hours a day, I would sell those pralines on the street corner. I was just eight years old. I'd bring the money home to my parents and say, This is just the beginning.
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I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.
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I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.
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Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.
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Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.
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I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.
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Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me.
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I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.
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Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.
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I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough well I am good enough now.
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We overweight people, we say terrible things to ourselves. Oh, you wouldn't believe it. 'You fat pig. How can you do this? You're a disgusting jerk.' And that gets you nowhere. That gets you right back into a bowl of pasta fregula.
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I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.
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I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.
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Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.
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If anyone's depressed for any reason, whether a relationship has fallen apart or they're having money problems, wearing feathered wings and a tutu takes you into a whole other world. A whole new woooooorld, a world of bright and shining stars!
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People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.
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The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.
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It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.
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