Jillian Michaels‘ wife is a New York City fashion designer, DeShanna Marie Minuto, who sells reconstructed vintage jackets.
The fitness trainer, Jillian Michaels, 49, tied the knot with Marie Minuto in a private ceremony in Namibia.
The women couple married on July 11, 2022, at a Miami courthouse before traveling to southern Africa for an intimate ceremony and honeymoon.
Michaels told her new wife, “Deshanna Marie Michaels — it’s an honor and an adventure saying I do to you. Finding you… my person… and eloping in Africa together has been one of the most magical and transformative chapters of my life.”
Jillian Michaels shared her freak accident that resulted in a spinal injury
The former star of “The Biggest Loser” revealed how she fractured her L3 vertebrae in 2021.
The fitness celebrity spoke to People about her suffering from a spinal injury that moved her to go “off the grid” and hold it private for over a year as she considered her future health.
Michaels said that at the start of spring of 2021, she was walking towards the bathroom to have a regular chat with her wife when her legs slipped and hit her back on the bathtub’s edge.
After six weeks of the injury, she had trouble moving and felt mountains of pain down her leg.
She was rushed to the hospital, and after running some tests and x-rays, the doctor informed her that she had a “nerve impingement,” aka a pinched nerve, but the back and leg pain did not go away.
The fitness trainer said, “I couldn’t sleep, The pain at night was so bad. I truly thought to myself. The only thing I think would be worse than this would be burns. It was so crazy. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t stand. I was having to crawl on the ground. I’m like, ‘My life is over.'”
However, she visited several doctors before visiting spine expert Dr. Stuart McGill, who determined that she had fractured her L3 vertebra in her spinal cord.
She had been stretching on her own, which McGill said was making the broken part worse by destabilizing her spine and increasing herniation size in her back.
Jillian Michaels kept the injury news private by sharing old social media videos and avoiding interviews. She explained that time when she disappeared off the field.
No one knew and had any idea about all of that injury and incident except her immediate circle. She opted not to tell this story to anyone until she knew how this journey ended.
It took Michaels almost six months before her health began to heal and improve with a plan by McGill and using a supported squat exercise machine.
Michaels said she is now back to snowboarding, ice skating, and other physical activities but has been “extra careful” since her injury.
