Facing The Dragon.

Ooh it sounds so Karate Kid faces his arch nemesis over a competition he has trained for like the brave and diligent little grasshopper he is. In some ways it is exactly like that for me. I am talking about facing the Australian media for my trip back home happening over the next few weeks.

Fame is a fickle beast and unless you have had someone camped on your doorstep terrorising your child for hours on end or had to pull up outside a police station having driven through 5 suburbs and three red lights to get away from a car chasing you through the streets, you can’t really understand what it is like. And before you say, “Well you chose that career” I have to say that I chose to write books that helped others heal their lives like I was doing with my own. I did Biggest Loser because I genuinely thought I would be able to help and subsequently reach more people with my message of healing your life, learning to love and respect yourself and not starve yourself stupid in an effort to have the perfect body/life.

I did not sign up to people spying on me in my private life,  nor did I subscribe to the publishing of an endless stream of lies, nastiness and bullying that the Australian media seems to think is some kind of national past time.…