Biggest Loser Season 7

The Biggest Loser Season 7

The finale of the NBC hit reality show The Biggest Loser was a three-hour special on Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Two contestants, Tara Costa and Helen Phillips, were already in the running for the grand prize of $250,000.

Millions of votes were cast and Mike was chosen to compete in the final three. Tara, Helen and Mike were trained by Jillian Michaels, who has been the trainer for the last two Biggest Loser champions, both women.

Helen Before

Helen started the competition weighing 257 lbs. She lost a total of 140 lbs, with her current weight at an amazing 117 lbs. Her total percentage of weight loss was 54.47%.

Helen after

Tara started the competition weighing 294 lbs. She lost 155 lbs, for a total percentage of weight loss of 52.72%. Her current weight is 139 lbs.

Mike started the competition weighing 388 lbs. He lost a total of 207 lbs. and currently weighs 181 lbs. His total percentage of weight loss was 53.35%.

Helen Is The Biggest Loser Season 7 Winner

The Biggest Loser 2009 season 7 finale is just over and Helen is the winner of the Biggest Loser 2009 Finale. Many viewers were shocked to see Helen becoming the winner of the Biggest Loser Season 7 Finale.

Our congratulations to Helen and her daughter Shanon. This was a great season for the Biggest Loser. Although Helen is the winner of the 2009 The Biggest Loser Finale everyone wins tonight.

Helen's Bio from The Biggest Loser

Helen is a very outgoing, friendly and caring mom of three. She has always put her friends and family before herself, which has left her with little time to care for her own needs, including a proper diet. Helen fell into the fast food routine; it was simple and worked with her busy schedule.

Helen and her husband keep the fridge stocked with all their favorite junk foods that she cannot resist. Helen knows she needs to be on the show to become a better role model for the people she loves, and above all, for herself.

She was not always heavy and once the weight was gained she found herself not able to enjoy the physical activities she once loved to do. Now instead of taking a hike, she finds herself sitting on the couch watching the Travel Channel while eating ice cream. Helen says she and her husband have become each other's enablers and this only makes it harder to lose the weight.

Helen and Shanon are a down-to-earth mother-and-daughter team who could pass as sisters. They are extremely competitive and love to laugh. Shanon and Helen are both gorgeous women who have a zest for life.

They leave everyone they meet with a smile on their face. Helen would do anything to help her daughter, especially because she feels she did not provide enough for Shanon when she was growing up.

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Michelle Tops Out as Winner of The Biggest Loser: Families

Some moments in life are meant to be shared with family. On Tuesday’s Biggest Loser: Families finale, Michelle Aguilar got that moment with her estranged mother when she won the season six title with a whopping 110-lb. weight loss.

As confetti rained down around her and the crowd went wild, Aguilar – who beat out this season’s villain, Vicky, and Ed, the only man to make it into the finale – celebrated her victory and a $250,000 prize by jumping off the scale for a group hug with her mom Renee Wilson, whom she barely knew before the two went on the show together and hugged her.

She tells PEOPLE that after a gruelling journey to victory, she’s ready for a break. “I am planning a really good vacation for the family,” says Aguilar, a 27-year-old an assistant director from Fort Worth, Texas. “I think everybody needs a little time off. We’re all a little bit worn out – at least I am!”

Aguilar, who went from 242 lbs. to 132 lbs. and lost 45.45% of her body weight, beat Louisiana nurse Vicky Vilcan’s 41.06% loss (she went from 246 lbs. to 145 lbs.) and runner-up Ed Brantley’s 41.49% (the chef from North Carolina went from 335 lbs. to 196 lbs.) after viewers and contestants were finally told who would be in the finale.

Early in the show, Ed and his wife Heba Salama, 30 – who both fell below the yellow line in last week’s episode and then pleaded for America to vote Heba into the finale – stood on the stage with Alison Sweeney as she announced the vote was a landslide, with 84% of viewers picking Ed to be in the final three.

“It is what it is,” an obviously disappointed but resigned Salama responded, adding that she was still a winner for losing so much weight.

Had Salama been voted into the finale, her weight loss–from 294 lbs. to 156 lbs. at the finale for a 46.94% loss–would have been enough to have beaten Aguilar.

Still, there were no hard feelings.

“She [Michelle] had a hard time this season so it was really nice to see her come through all of that and win the prize,” Salama told PEOPLE.

Aguilar is only the second female contestant ever to win the Biggest Loser title in the U.S. (The U.K. version had a female winner, Jodie Prenger, in 2006).

As for the two runners-up, both took the loss with grace, smiling and trying not to look too disappointed. Even Vicky, one of the most disliked contestants in BL history and famous for her smirk, had nothing but a genuine smile of acceptance when it was clear she hadn’t lost enough weight to win.

For Aguilar, who almost left the ranch mid-season to deal with personal issues, this victory is well-deserved, her trainer Jillian Michaels tells PEOPLE. “Michelle brings a unique perspective and sensitivity and an insight that we really haven’t seen in our winners thus far.”

Adds Michaels, “She’s gone on to make Biggest Loser history.” –Sara Hammel, with reporting by Cynthia Wang and Rebecca Gross

Michelle is 'Biggest Loser'

Michelle Aguilar, the 26 year old from Dallas, was named "the Biggest Loser" in the sixth season finale Tuesday.

She lost 110 pounds in the competition, dropping from a starting weight of 242 to a current 132 as part of Jillian Michaels' team. The percentage weight loss was 45.45 percent and she took home the title and the $250,000 final prize.

Ed Brantley, 31, a chef from Raleigh, lost even more pounds, 139, but the 41.49 percent weight loss was less than the winner (or loser) when he went from a starting 335 to 196. He had been part of Bob Harper's team of husbands and wives, with his wife Heba Salama, 30, who was also among the final four but was eliminated by viewer vote during the finale in a rather lopsided margin -- an 84 percent majority chose Brantley. But Salama did win the $100,000 prize for the biggest loser of those eliminated.

Also part of Harper's team was Vicky Vilcan, 37, the mother from Houma, La., who said she felt guilty that her weight had helped make her daughter overweight as well. Her weight loss, losing 101 pounds from a starting 246 to 145, was good enough for a third place finish.

"The Biggest Loser" finale came as part of a big two hour finale, which really was not so big -- every episode of the show this season was two hours long, something of a record. There won't be much time without the show. It returns with a new group of overweight contestants Jan. 6.

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