Powter’s “Stop the Insanity!”

“They started to produce the ‘me’ out of me,” she continued.

“And that happened when the money got to here [raising her hand up high].

Fitness guru Susan Powter attends the 1994 National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) Convention on January 27, 1994 at Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida.

Susan Powter.Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty

Then it was like, ‘Oh, Suze, don’t say that.

It’s a little too much.

Oh, you’re shocking.

But that’s the same shock that got me there.”

“But it was mortifying,” she continued.

“They put me in pearls.

Look at me do I look like the pearl throw in?

And I didn’t have any say.

All those segments, I can’t even watch them now.”

“I never made the money that I generated,” she said.

“I didn’t just make a decision to leave.

“It was shocking.

And I was just like, I’m just out.”

She also recently released a self-published memoir,And Then Em Died… Stop the Insanity!