Missett: Celebrity fitness trends relied on single personalities, lacking Jazzercise's scale
Judi Sheppard Missett · Jazzercise: Judi Sheppard Missett · Jan 18, 2021 · at 1:02:49
Jazzercise founder Judi Sheppard Missett reflects on the 1980s celebrity aerobics boom, including Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons.
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“It never really bothered me because I felt like the people who were celebrities, and of course we have Richard Simmons as well, you know, all getting into it just gave people more awareness, and then they could pick what they wanted to do, but I don't consider myself a celebrity. I am the founder of this program and this company, and we have many, many, many people who are representative of the program in our instructors, whereas the people who are celebrities are pretty much just that, you know, they were just one person. We were thousands of people”
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