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Is Jenny Craig a Classic Scam? | Corporate Casket

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4961 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Get a 30-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/casket. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Jenny Craig, yet another dieting company has a long history of misleading advertising. Are their products effective at all? Have they really earned their place as a popular weight loss product? Or are they just shilling hope and even dangerous practices to people desperate to lose weight? Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/awfpd Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I bring up my body and dreading the walk to the pool.

0:08.0

But with the help of my personal Jenny consultant Kathy, I lost 40 pounds and I gained confidence.

0:14.0

Does anyone else remember those old 90s and early 2000s commercials about Jenny Craig?

0:19.0

Two of their heavily featured spokeswomen were Valerie Bertinelli and Kirstie Alley. It felt like I saw those ads everywhere. spokeswoman were

0:23.0

Valleary Bertinelli,

0:25.0

honestly. The commercials were pretty standard,

0:27.2

saying that you could lose weight

0:28.8

while still eating the foods you love.

0:30.6

Basically what any weight loss company promises, one of them featuring

0:34.3

Kirstie is blunt to put it mildly.

0:36.4

She's on a phone calling 1800 Jenny 20 saying that she's calling in regards to being fat before she tells the camera,

0:48.0

hey, you're chubby too. Let's lose weight together. She also gets way too excited over eating chicken fettuccini.

0:54.8

Call 1-800 Jenny 20 to lose all the weight you want.

0:58.8

But hey, dieting can at times feel like you have to give up all the unhealthy delicious foods you love, right?

1:05.2

Jenny Craig pushed the message that you can eat whatever you want and lose weight fast.

1:09.9

At only $36 for six weeks plus the cost of food too.

1:13.6

Or in other ads, they'd say you could lose 20 pounds for $20.

1:17.3

Also, plus the cost of food.

1:19.3

Look, it doesn't take much to realize that yeah they were probably being a bit deceptive

1:24.2

about these results.

1:25.6

Exaggerating is practically the name of the game when it comes to supplements, weight loss,

1:29.7

and products such as these.

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