The MLM Exploiting A Celerity Death For Profit | Multi Level Mondays

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Go to http://hellofresh.com/MLM65 and use code MLM65 for 65% off plus free shipping! Go to http://mintmobile.com/MLM to get premium wireless from just $15 bucks a month. Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes. At first, TrimSpa was just your run-of-the-mill diet pill fad. But, when mega star social starlet Anna Nicole Smith decided to join in on their campaigns and lost her own weight, it absolutely exploded. Suddenly TrimSpa was everywhere and they had their celebrity star to thank for it. But, after her death, it all came spiraling down. They lost a massive amount of their customers, found themselves in fights with the FTC and FDA, and had to change the entire makeup of their products. Now, they’re back, charging an exorbitant amount of money for diet pills that likely, don’t work. Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii Sources: https://justpaste.it/6l2jy Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Jess Hubbert This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. We're back. Today we're talking about the fastest growing
0:10.4	weight loss program in history in its first eight weeks a quarter of a
0:14.8	million people started it what is it people
0:18.0	fading suit short skirts thank you L.A weight loss
0:21.1	30 pounds in just 18 weeks Jenny Craig told Thank you're Great.
0:23.0	30 pounds in just 18 weeks Jenny Craig totally worked.
0:25.0	I'm Jessica Simpson and yes I'm doing weight watchers.
0:29.0	Well, you can count track and worry over every meal
0:32.0	or you can lose weight simply with Jenny Craig.
0:35.0	BAM. Diet culture. It's nothing new. We see it everywhere from pyramid schemes, magic and bizarre weight loss diets and constant commercials.
0:45.0	But in the early 2000s, diet culture was even more impossible to escape.
0:51.0	Everywhere you looked, there was a celebrity endorsing a new weight
0:54.7	loss game, oh sorry I meant a new weight loss strategy. You could just be living
0:59.3	your everyday boring life feeling perfectly fine with your body.
1:02.8	Then suddenly, as you go on your weekly grocery store trip, you were bombarded with
1:06.6	magazine after magazine of celebrities claiming they lost an insane amount of weight.
1:11.8	So when you pick up one of those magazines to take a look, 90% of the
1:15.0	magazine was all about losing weight. 10 steps towards weight loss, your
1:19.3	sex life after weight loss. Every damn article seemed to include the word weight loss somewhere in it.
1:25.5	Look at all the clothes you could fit in and styles you could rock if you just lost that extra
1:29.3	ten pounds. You could just be like, insert literally any woman celebrity name here if you just tried their specific plan
1:36.1	Soon you weren't feeling quite as good about your body as you were when you first walked in
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