Margie tackles some weighty issues

Margie tackles some weighty issues

Television weight loss series The Biggest Loser is back on our screens this week and ‘Red Team’ contestant Margie Cummins may just pique the interest of queer viewers.

The Brisbaneite, 34, is giving it her all to shed the pounds in the show’s seventh series which, this time around, will focus on singles shaping up to find the love of their lives.

Cummins is openly gay and the straight-talking Queenslander told the Star Observer she relishes her title of the only gay in the Biggest Loser village.

“I say that every day, I’m the only gay in the village,” she said with a laugh.

“Some weekends I sit outside the front of the house and watch people walk past and hope there’s another gay person so I can make eye contact with them.”

Cummins said she was aware of her sexuality from an early age and has the support of her family.

“I’m the youngest of eight and at the age of six I was checking out the same sex,” she said.

“My parents and my brothers and sisters, they all knew before I actually told them. So it was fine, at the end of the day my parents are happy as long as I’m happy.”

Cummins, who broke up with her partner before the show, said her weight gain in recent years has stopped her going out on the scene.

“I used to go out heaps, but the last six years I’ve been overweight and haven’t really wanted to go out and socialise.

“You don’t want to go out if you’re not looking or feeling good, so when I go back I’ll definitely be very much a social butterfly.”

A pizza shop owner for the last six years (she owned the Wild Pepper chain in Brisbane), Cummins said working in hospitality took its toll on her weight.

“At one stage when I had the three shops, I had 42 staff, I was working 70 – 80 hours a week,” she said.

“We were very successful, but it got too much and I stopped exercising and I was drinking a fair bit of beer and eating pizza late at night.”

Although currently under the watchful eye of fitness trainer Michelle Bridges, Cummins is no stranger to tough training sessions. She once represented her state in women’s rugby league and rugby union and was sporty at school.

“I’m just here to lose weight and get back to the healthy woman I once was,” she said.

INFO: The Biggest Loser: Singles premiered this week and airs at 7pm Monday to Thursday on Ch 10. More at www.thebiggestloser.com.au

You May Also Like

2 responses to “Margie tackles some weighty issues”