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In 2013, Kim Kardashian’s personal trainer Melissa Alcantara was, according to an interview with CNBC, an “unfit, super broke” waitress living in Brooklyn, New York. As a new mum, Alcantara was starting down her fitness journey with the primary goal to lose the 70lbs (31kgs) she gained during and after her pregnancy.
“My entire life I’d been yo-yo dieting,” she said in an interview with Joe Wicks. “I always had low self-esteem. I was big, then small, then chunky. I would starve myself. I didn’t do it the right way.”