There had been rumblings in my neighborhood of Casa View that
celebutante fitness instructor and author of "Stop the Insanity" lived
in the neighborhood in the early 1980's before she became famous.
As she embraced a health and fitness regimen which
changed her whole body, she also began a program which changed the
history of her life.
A September, 1993 article in
the Dallas Observer and a Texas Monthly article in November, 1993 set
out to correct most of the story she tells about herself. Changing her
body image and health is a good thing, why make up everything else?
What the reporters found is that she met her husband
Nic Villareal while working as a topless dancer in 1981. Also, she
danced topless into the first few weeks of her first pregnancy, either
in late 1982 or early 1983. Someone has removed the file from the club
where she was working.
She never lived in Garland as she claimed, but rather
in a suburban neighborhood of Northeast Dallas (i.e. Casa View), and the
most she weighed was 190 pounds right after the birth of her second
child.
Villareal opened a Mexican restaurant in Irving in 1985. They divorced in 1986.
Upon
advice from her mother that "nobody could love you like that," she
started exercising at Mind Over Body Exercise Studio. She kept
exercising and eating low fat food until she went from a size 20 to a
size 2.
She acknowledges she taught aerobics classes in several
Dallas aerobic studios in 1987, and that she danced at the Million
Dollar Saloon on Greenville Avenue the same year, using the stage name
Bernadette.
She met a Dallas businessman at the Million Dollar. He
persuaded her to stop dancing, and began to support her. He paid for a
tummy tuck, and she also had one of her ears pinned back which she said
she paid for herself.
Her philosophy is a simple one: eat, move, breathe. In
her exercise studio, they regularly refer to Covert Bailey's book "Fit
or Fat?" and his sequel "The New Fit or Fat."
Why would she claim she lived in Garland rather than Casa View? Is Garland that much more prestigious?
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