Susan Powter
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Image:Powter.jpg Susan Powter is an Australian-born motivational speaker, dietitian and personal trainer who rose to fame in the 1990s with her mantra "Stop the Insanity!". She gives few details of her personal life except that she has always been somewhat estranged from her parents, that she was educated by Dominican nuns, and that she has 3 sons (21, 20 & 7 years old), although no information on former husbands or the fathers of her children. On her website, she claims to be 47 years old and "menopausal".
She is an author with several best-selling books. She was set apart from other people in her profession because of her loud, aggressive manner of speaking and her military-style, platinum-white flat-top haircut. Though no longer in the limelight as she once was, she continues to write and motivate.
She went into her modern form after losing 133 pounds, motivated by the departure of her husband for another woman. She often spoke of her activities immediately after the split as "I ate, and I cried, and I planned his death."
In 2003, she returned to writing with The Politics of Stupid, a stream-of-consciousness, self-published manifesto encouraging women to take control of their brains and bodies from the food manufacturers, corrupt governments, and fitness/diet industries. Advocating a whole-foods, organic, low-fat diet, and regular cardiovascular and strength-training exercise, she describes herself now as a "radical feminist lesbian woman" and has been described as "the female Michael Moore".
As of December 2005, Susan's web site reported an upcoming untitled radio show and an upcoming reality cooking show entitled Taste My Broth. Her website also offers a subscription-based "multi-media e-zine" called The Monthly Flow.