Suzanne Potter lost her multimillion-dollar fitness empire when her finances were mismanaged.
The ’90s fitness guru said she started delivering food for GrubHub and Uber Eats to make ends meet.
“I’ve known frustration,” Potter told People magazine. “The frustrations are coming back from the welfare office. It’s the shock of, ‘From there, now I’m here?’ How in God’s name?”
According to the outlet, Potter, 66, lives in a low-income senior community and receives free meals twice a week.
In the 90s, Potter launched her own fitness program “Stop the Insanity!” Sold by name. For $79.80.
The program included audio cassettes, recipes and other tips for weight loss. After selling $50 million of products annually, Potter declared bankruptcy in 1995.
At that time, he still had money but he did not know that the money was being mismanaged.
“Somebody else was handling it. I never checked the balance,” Potter told the outlet. “I should have asked questions. I accept it completely. I made a mistake.
He added, “I knew how much control I had given up.” “I didn’t know where what was paid, but I didn’t have any property. There was no fund left for my children.
“I didn’t think there would ever be another book or video. I never worked. I never thought that I would not be able to earn a living. But try getting a job as a 60 year old woman.
Power’s life became “scary” by 2018. She started driving for Uber Eats and GrubHub, hoping to earn at least $80 a day to pay bills and rent.
“It’s so hard. It’s so shocking,” she told People. “If depression could kill you, I’d be dead.”
Despite Potter’s financial troubles, he kept it close to his family. However, he wrote about it in his book, “And Then They Died…Stop the Insanity!” It is written in. A memoir.”
“My sons read my book, and they said, ‘Mom, we didn’t know.'”
Before his financial collapse, Potter had a syndicated TV show.
The show, he said, was “complete nonsense”. “They put me in beads. He created ‘I’ from me. Those sections – I can’t even see them anymore.
She eventually walked away from the fitness empire.
“I was teaching classes in the basement of an elementary school, photographing babies born underwater at home, driving my little Volkswagen Bug with my baby, just being a mom,” she said. “I’m a very simple hippie kind of girl.”
Potter experienced a health crisis in 2023 that caused him to appeal for Social Security.
“That $1,500 check shocked me,” she told People. “Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness lied. Liar. This was not happiness. It was greater than happiness. I took the deepest breath. And this isn’t just a ‘you used to have millions and now you don’t’ story. It’s a very real thing that a lot of women go through.”
He started saving “obsessively”.
“I don’t spend any money. I don’t go anywhere. I don’t eat out,” she explained. “These are the sweatpants I wear all the time. Seven dollars on Amazon.”
