NEED TO KNOW
- Ali Vincent won the fifth season of The Biggest Loser in 2008 by dropping over 100 lbs.
- She was the first woman to be crowned the winner of the controversial reality series
- In 2016, Vincent announced that she had gained most of the weight back, but has lost it since
Ali Vincent made The Biggest Loser history when she became the first woman to take home the title in 2008. Nearly two decades later, she maintains that her time on the controversial competition series was transformational.
“One of the biggest things that I see people asking me is would I have done the show over again,” she said in an April 2023 YouTube video. “The answer would be yes. Even though I know everything that I’ve gone through, how hard it was and how the physical hurt and pain was nothing compared to the emotional journey … It changed my life. And I honestly didn’t think of The Biggest Loser as something that was going to change my life.”
The now mother-of-three began her season at 234 lbs. and ended it at 122 lbs. — losing a total of 47% of her body weight. Since then, she’s continued to stay in the spotlight through other reality series, books and online content.
Though Vincent shared that she had regained almost all of her weight in 2016, she has since lost it again and started doing Pilates, per her Instagram.
So, where is Ali Vincent now? Here’s everything to know about The Biggest Loser season 5 winner’s life nearly two decades after she won the series.
Vincent regained almost all of her weight by 2016
In an April 2016 Facebook post — just a few days after her eight-year anniversary of winning The Biggest Loser — Vincent shared that she had regained almost all of her weight.
“I swore I would never be there again, be here again,” she wrote. “I couldn’t imagine a day again that I would weigh over 200 pounds. I feel ashamed. I feel embarrassed. I feel overwhelmed. I feel like failure.”
In an October 2016 episode of Oprah: Where Are They Now? Vincent said she believed much of her weight gain stemmed from the emotional fallout of being sexually assaulted during a massage.
“My routine completely changed,” she said on the show. “I’ve realized, over the last year, as I’ve gained this weight, it was so much of my life slowed down, that a lot of stuff came up that I just hadn’t dealt with.”
She starred in her own TV series and launched a podcast
Following her win on The Biggest Loser, Vincent starred in her own series, Live Big with Ali Vincent, which chronicled her life after the series. She also published a book in 2009 titled Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life.
In addition to documenting her life with her wife, Jen, and their three children on Instagram, Vincent announced that she was starting a podcast in April 2023 called Weighing In With Ali.
In an Instagram post prior to sharing the news, she wrote that she wanted to answer her fans’ questions and talk about her “battles with weight loss & confidence.”
Vincent has three kids
Vincent shares a daughter and twin boys, Bailey and Bodhi, with her wife, Jen. The Biggest Loser alum has opened up on Facebook about her journey to build her family, which included conceiving her twins through IVF and adopting her daughter.
“Tomorrow my wife and I attend our first family planning meeting to discuss the transition of our soon to be adopted daughter into our home,” Vincent shared in another post. “I can’t tell you how much love I feel inside of me.”
She continued, “I look forward to continuing to learn more so that I can teach my family by example to love and to know self-love so that we can love and accept the love others the way we all deserve to have in our lives.”
She’s defended the show in the past
In her 2016 appearance on Oprah: Where Are They Now, the former reality star defended The Biggest Loser following claims that contestants were pressured to use drugs. Season 7 participant Joelle Gwynn had alleged that trainer Bob Harper’s assistant encouraged her to take a drug that would “help” her, which Harper denied.
“There’s a lot of allegations out there now with The Biggest Loser,” Vincent said. “There’s allegations that there’s drugs, and, ‘Oh, they’re not letting you drink water!’ It didn’t happen on my season. I find it highly unlikely that it was allowed, recommended, or forced. Because no one can force anybody to do anything on The Biggest Loser.”
Vincent declined to participate in Fit for TV
Netflix’s Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser featured interviews from many past contestants, including season 8 winner Danny Cahill. But Vincent chose not to participate in the 2025 documentary due to contract negotiations and other reasons.
“I think I was probably one of the first people that they talked to,” Vincent told Parade in August 2025, adding that she was talking with the documentary team “for quite a while.” She ultimately decided not to be interviewed for the project, a decision she said she doesn’t regret after watching it.
“The next day, I was like, ‘I’m glad I didn’t do it,’ ” the former contestant said. “Boring and poor me stories.”
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