Nothing to Lose with Tracey Yukich
Whine Down with Jana Kramer
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Jana is learning the truth behind The Biggest Loser when she talks to Tracey Yukich from season 8.
Tracey is part of the new documentary “Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser” and she explains while she was considered the “villain” of the show.
Plus, Tracey tells a story from her time on the show that not many people know about, but completely changed the course of her life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | Wind down with Jana Kramer, an IHeart Radio podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | All right, today's special guest, we've got Tracy Yukits on. |
| 0:13.9 | She competed on season eight of the biggest loser in 2009. |
| 0:17.8 | She's on the docu series Fit for TV. |
| 0:26.8 | It's so good. So let's get her on. Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you? |
| 0:31.4 | I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. My name is Jana. |
| 0:40.1 | Hi, Jana. So I am so excited to talk to you because little known fact about me, I was a huge biggest loser fan. |
| 0:44.9 | Like, I mean, so huge that I went to a live taping when I was living in Los Angeles. |
| 0:45.8 | Wow. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, it was, it was something. |
| 0:50.2 | And I watched every single season. |
| 0:51.7 | I knew all the contestants. And so when this docu series came out, I mean, I was like talking to |
| 0:57.0 | my husband, like, honey, we need to watch this. It's the biggest loser. He knew like nothing about |
| 1:00.6 | the show because he was overseas. And so yeah, so I obviously remember your story very well. |
| 1:09.1 | For the listeners that are listening, when you got the call, was there any piece of you |
| 1:14.6 | that was hesitant to do the docu series to have to kind of relive the stuff that you went through? |
| 1:19.5 | Or was it something where you're like grateful for the opportunity to be able to kind of tell |
| 1:25.1 | the story in your words as opposed to what we saw on TV. |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah. Actually, I said no a couple of times when it came to doing the documentary. When they had |
| 1:35.4 | reached out to me, a producer had reached out to me on, I think it was Instagram or Facebook. |
| 1:40.0 | And I would always get like these little messages from people and you never knew if it was real or not. |
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