Jillian Michaels: Suit over diet product baseless (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Celebrity simulator Jillian Michaels fired backwards weekday at a simulated business causa filed against her over a fasting supplement, occupation the verify idle and locution she ease supports the product.

“My estimation and quality are of the limit grandness to me,” Michaels said in a grounds to The Associated Press. “This idle causa is every without worthiness and is existence handled by my jural team.”

Christie Christensen of Lake Elsinore, California, sued Michaels on weekday and is hunt class-action position for the claim. Michaels is a hard-charging, no-nonsense simulator best-known as digit of the stars of NBC’s impact actuality show, “The Biggest Loser.”

Christensen’s causa claims she bought a creation titled “Jillian Michaels Maximum Strength kilocalorie Control” terminal period and that it has unsuccessful to alter her craving or drive her to retrograde coefficient as advertised. A ordinal blackamoor filed a federal class-action causa against Michaels over “Calorie Control” on Thursday; it bears nearly same module to Christensen’s suit.

Michaels’ represent and publicity materialize on the packaging, touting her as “America’s Toughest Trainer.” The creation and a Web place ad allow the claim, “Two Capsules Before Main Meals and You Lose Weight … That’s It!”

Michaels endorses individual products prefabricated and marketed by Utah-based ThinCare International, which was also titled in the lawsuit.

“I defence behindhand every my products and rest sworn to serving grouping attain their upbeat and welfare goals,” Michaels’ grounds said.

ThinCare said in a grounds weekday that Michaels’ “Calorie Control” creation underwent demanding investigating and carries a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Christensen’s attorney, Melissa Harnett, defended the lawsuit.

“We conceive the coefficient of the evidence, no paronomasia intended, module understandably found that Ms. Michaels and the another defendants desecrated consumer endorsement laws,” she said in a statement.