Jillian Michaels is embroiled in a public dispute with Netflix and the individuals behind a new documentary series about the reality show The Biggest Loser.According to the docuseries, Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser, Michaels allegedly restricted contestants' caloric intake, gave them banned caffeine pills, and prevented them from getting proper medical care. But she says all of that is a lie.Michaels was a trainer on the weight-loss competition show from 2004 to 2013, and for a while, was one of the most prominent names in the health industry. Now, however, she's just as much known for her time on The Biggest Loser as she is for her increasingly conservative political views. In addition to drawing attention for calling out "lies" in the documentary, Michaels recently made news when she appeared on CNN and criticized the Smithsonian for teaching that "just one race" meaning, white people is responsible for slavery in the U.S.Michaels came out as queer in 2012 and identified as a liberal for a long time. So how did we get here?The 2016 election.In 2016, when Donald Trump was first elected president, Michaels posted a lengthy reaction on Facebook: "This morning I woke up and told my children that the fight for equality is FAR from over. That we must not bury our head in the sand. We must be strong and smart and fight hate and fear of what's different with love. My daughter cried and my son comforted her. My only hope is that this will force us all to wake up, dig in, and face the future with resolve to continue fighting for unity, equality, love, understanding, peace... And most of all kindness."In a 2016 interview with Go Mag, she praised Black Lives Matter, the LGBTQ+ rights movement, and "women's rights and feminism" for coming together to fight oppression and called Mike Pence "the number one anti-gay politician in the country right now."A turn to the right.See on InstagramIn an interview with The New York Times that was published this week, Michaels said she currently identifies politically as "center right." In the article, Times reporter Molly Langmuir described Michaels as a supporter of "abortion rights (though not late term) and gay marriage," who nevertheless "thinks that it's wrong to medicalize gender transitions for children" and "is concerned vaccines haven't been studied vigorously enough."Langmuir went on to write about two significant events that seemed to have changed Michaels's political views. The first was in 2020, when Michaels was listening to Joe Rogan's podcast and a guest mentioned the possibility that the COVID-19 virus was leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. Upon hearing the claim, Michaels apparently pulled over her car and started researching it online."That was my Neo moment in The Matrix," she said on Rogan's podcast later. "That was it. I was forever gone. Took the red pill."Her marriage to DeShanna Marie.See on InstagramThe second was the start of her relationship with DeShanna Marie Minuto, who is a Trump supporter. The two started dating in 2018 and got married in 2022.According to the The New York Times, the couple initially fought about politics "with Minuto arguing the left was more hypocritical and intolerant than the right" but eventually Michaels found herself agreeing more and more with her her future wife's views.Michaels also said that, while she used to think that people on the left were "the truly empathetic ones," she now believes "everybody's kind of dirty and I've got to pick a side."The Lizzo controversy. (@) In 2021, people began to notice Michaels's shift toward the right. That year, she criticized Lizzo's body positivity on the BuzzFeed podcast AM2DM, suggesting that people should celebrate her art rather than her body. "It isn't going to be awesome if she gets diabetes," Michaels said.When she was accused of being fatphobic and of body-shaming, Michaels told The New YorkTimes, "That's when I was like, Whatever is happening over here on the left with this wokeism isn't good."The 2024 election.See on InstagramIn 2024, Michaels appeared on The Rubin Report and said that she voted for Donald Trump for president."I did vote for Donald Trump, yeah. He wasn't my choice out of the candidates that were running for the primary. I do understand his flaws, but the problem for me is that it becomes a question of lesser evils," she said.Addressing her change of heart, Michaels told The New York Times that when Trump was first elected in 2016, she thought "Oh, you're a Russian puppet and you were peed on by a prostitute" and worried he'd take away the right to same-sex marriage. And then, she said, she started thinking, "actually, none of this is true," which led her to question her other beliefs.Her thoughts on RFK, Jr.For the past several years, Michaels has been a fervent supporter of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and his Make America Healthy Again movement.After Kennedy was named secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, he announced that he was fronting a movement to find a "cure" for autism, which he called "a preventable disease" caused by "environmental exposure." And in an appearance on Newsmax in April, Michaels praised his announcement and said, "It's crazy that not everyone is elated about the fact that he's trying to get to the bottom of this." She also compared rising rates of autism diagnoses to "skyrocketing rates of obesity."Her podcasting choices and comments.See on InstagramMichaels has also hosted the podcast Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels since 2011. Some recent episode titles include "Gavin Newsom is a Sociopath w/ Chris Moritz," "Civilization in Freefall: What Illegal Immigration, DEI, and Ivy Indocrination Have in Common," "Whatever Happened to Being a Tomboy? w/ Jeff Dye," and "Why Transgender Sports and BLM Expose Cultural Hypocrisy w/ Candace Owens."Thoughts on Pride Month. (@) This June, Michales wrote an opinion piece for The Daily Mail arguing that Pride Month has been taken over by "leather daddies in assless chaps simulating sex acts in public," "drag queens twerking in thongs in front of children," and "parades that look more like adult fetish conventions than civil rights celebrations."Just a few days after the op-ed ran, she turned her attention to targeting trans athletes.Weve crossed the line from personal liberties and personal freedoms of, Hey, love is love, live your life the way youd like to, to, Listen, if youre a biological girl, youre going to have to deal with probably not taking the podium again, because a biological male who identifies as a female is going to kick your ass," Michaels told the conservative site News Nation.Commenting on slavery and the Smithsonian. (@) Ahead of the release of Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser, Michaels made headlines for a CNN appearance where she joined Trump in criticizing the Smithsonian and other Washington, D.C., museums.Specifically, she took issue with the idea that slavery in America could be tied to just one race. After arguing that "less than 2 percent of white Americans owned slaves" and that Americans were "the first race to try to end slavery," she added, "Every single thing is like, 'white people bad,' and that's just not the truth."She also criticized the Smithsonian for including mentions of transgender athletes in a recent exhibit and for flying the Pride flag.