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The $250,000 winner of Biggest Loser: Couples was a woman who had lost the most weight for a female in the four year history of the NBC reality show. Ali Vincent, a 32 year-old hairstylist from Arizona, was the first female to take home first prize. She lost 112 pounds to go down to a 122 pounds from her starting weight of 234. Her mom, Bette Sue Burkland, lost 75 pounds to go from 261 to 186 pounds.
The runner up was Roger Shultz, a 40 year-old former football player and radio host from Alabama, who lost 164 pounds to weight in at 199 from a starting weight of 363 pounds. Roger received the most votes from viewers.
Here are the photos of the amazing transformations of the contestants, who all come away winners for having transformed their health and their lives. Thanks to xenphora on ONTD for these pictures, originally from NBC.com. Details from Wikipedia. Weight loss represents loss at the time of the Finale and not when contestants were eliminated.
Winner Ali Vincent, 32, and her mom Bette Sue Burkland, 53. Ali: 234 lbs. to 122 lbs. Betty Sue: 261 lbs. to 186 lbs
Runner up: Roger Shultz, 40, and his former football teammate Trent Patterson, 39. Roger: 363 lbs. to 199 lbs. Trent: 436 lbs. to 301 lbs. Roger is the one to the left.
Third place: Kelly Fields, 38, and her ex husband Paul Marks, 43. Kelly: 271 lbs. to 162 lbs. Paul: 303 lbs. to 233 lbs.
Mark Kruger, 35, and brother Jay Kruger, 31. Mark: 285 lbs. to 156 lbs. Jay: 293 lbs. to 190 lbs.
Dan Evans, 21, and mom Jackie Evans, 49. Dan: 310 lbs. to 174 lbs. Jackie: 246 lbs. to 157 lbs.
Brittany Aberle, 22, and Bernie Salazar, 27. Brittany: 221 lbs. to 164 lbs. Bernie: 283 lbs. to 153 lbs.
Neill Harmer, 28, and wife Amanda Harmer, 29. Neill: 317 lbs. to 229 lbs. Amanda: 204 lbs. to 140 lbs.
Jenn Widder, 22, and best friend Maggie King, 23. Jenn: 254 lbs. to 190 lbs. Maggie: 239 lbs. to 169 lbs.
Lynn Westphal, 60, and daughter Jenni Westphal, 31. Lynn: 390 lbs. to 329 lbs. Jenni: 267 lbs. to 213 lbs.
Curtis Bray, 35, and wife Mallory Bray, 36. Curtis: 381 lbs. to 231 lbs. Mallory: 217 lbs. to 152 lbs.
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Reality Shows, Weight Loss
10 Responses to “First Female Winner on “Biggest Loser” celebrates 112 pound loss (spoilers)”
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I wish Mallory and Curtis would have won also, not because they would have been the first blacks to ever win but because I know if he doesn’t have health insurance the money would have done his household wonders because of all the medical bills they would incur.
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I think they all look marvelous and all deserve to be winners because what they have done is just so damn hard to do.
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I send out my sincere congratulations to these people (although I’m not sure if it is that healthy to lose such an amount of weight on such a small amount of time but I am not specialist)! They all have worked very, very hard.
As far as I’m concerned, they all ARE winners.However, they need to change of sponsor for those horrible slippers. Ew.
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I was thinking the same thing about those slippers!!! These people work very very hard and lose a ton in such a short time–it’s amazing, the transformation!But on a technical note, why is everyone so tan in the after pics? Does a tan make you look slimmer? If so, I’m off to the tanning booth–oh wait, I’m Irish. Don’t tan. Only freckle. damn!
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Roger looks hot now
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Yes having a tan makes you look thinner, but I think not only did they tan, but the color is more saturated on the after pictures. I am so incredibly happy for all of them, they have truly gotten their lives back. I commend them for sticking with it and losing all that excess weight.
And to Bellatrix, when you are as heavy as those people were, it’s perfectly fine to drop that much weight over a few months (as they did) because they are losing lots of watery fat that goes away fairly quickly as soon as you start working out. If you aren’t really heavy, losing weight really fast means something is wrong because you aren’t supposed to.
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Congratulations to ALL the contestants! Well done! You should ALL be very proud of yourselves and feel so much better physically and emotionally! The winner looks incredible! AS someone who’s fought weight issues her whole life, it gives me hope that we CAN do it. It just takes a lot of hard work and determination! Good job EVERYONE on The Biggest Loser! Great show too!
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TBL is so inspiring. Congratulations to Ali and all the other winners– they are all winners. And to Alyson Sweeney, who knows what it’s all about having battled weight issues herself, and does a great job emceeing!
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Not to be rude, but I’ll be curious to see these same contestants in 6 months and then 12 months time from now.
Does ‘watery fat’ actually exist? I would have thought it was either water or fat. Lose a lot of weight fast in a short period then you could be losing more water than fat. I hope they didn’t lose any muscle mass.
They look good, lets hope it’s maintainable. For their own sakes.
Check out the link:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1626795_1627112_1626456,00.html
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I am so happy a femal finally won. Now Roger looks like he’s been throwing his guts out he didn’t look healthy at all last night.
I loved Ali, she kept it real the whole show. I am 5 -4 and 178 pounds I wish I could lose about 38 pounds myself. It’s hard but I’m taking it one day at time.
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