A Season 8 contestant from The Biggest Loser says she “died” while filming the hit weight-loss competition — and she’s opening up about the harrowing ordeal in Netflix ’s new docuseries Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser.

Sarah Gilbert, who appeared on the seventeenth season of the show, has now admitted on social media that she too felt the pressure to lie while on The Biggest Loser. In a comment shared publicly on a clip of the show (via) Dr Huizenga's account, Gilbert said: "I definitely ate far less than that towards the end, but that was on me, not on you.

The trauma of Noughties fat shaming has returned to our screens with a three-part Netflix docuseries diving deep into the world of hit reality TV series The Biggest Loser.