'The Biggest Loser's Abby Tears Up As She Talks about the Tragedy that Took her Family
"The Biggest Loser"'s Abby Rike talks about how she chose to live following the untimely death of her husband and two children … and now, she needs to lose weight to make her life the best that it can be.
It was in October 2006 that the theater/speech teacher and debate coach lost her husband, her 5-1/2-year-old daughter and her 2-1/2-week-old son in a fatal car collision. The 34-year-old widow from Mabank, TX used food as a way of coping with her loss. Now, "The Biggest Loser" is helping her to get her life back on a healthy track.
For more with Rike, click here to read ET's Q&A. Then tune in when "The Biggest Loser" returns for its eighth season on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. on NBC.
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