Jillian Michaels Matched With a Little Girl in Haiti

Jillian Michaels announced that the paperwork is in process - she's been matched with a little girl from Haiti and hopes to bring her home within a year.  During a recent trip, she visited orphanages in Haiti  and"fell in love" with the litter girl.

“So now, it’s just a matter of trying to get her home and anything can happen and fall through or fall apart, so it’s kind of premature for me to say it, but that’s where it’s at.” 

Fitness guru Jillian Michaels shares her goals for 2012

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Jillian Michaels

Slow down — that’s my priority, starting now. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been burning the candle at both ends. I’m not a person who waits for life to happen. Instead, I chase it. I know I’m never going to stop working hard — I love what I do too much. But I also know that the frantic pace is starting to affect my health, and that maybe it’s time I do the restorative and preventive things I tell everyone else to do — like flexibility exercises, for example. I never had the patience for those, even though I have terrible balance and flexibility. But they’re so important, especially as you get older. They help alignment, improve coordination and prevent knee and lower-back injuries, which are common with age. I also plan to start meditating — it’s something I’ve flirted with over the years but never did seriously. I’m extremely high-strung. (Maybe you’ve noticed?) I’m also prone to anxiety, which lately has been giving me stomach issues. Plus, I started getting stress-induced rosacea, which is so not cute. I’ve talked a million times about the benefits of meditating, but I never do it myself. I don’t know how to take five, 10 or oh-my-God 15 minutes during the day to just stop and process my thoughts and breathe. But it’s time to find that time, especially this year. I hope to expand my family, so I need to find balance and carve some calm into my chaos.

You have to slow down every once in a while and go to that yoga class or take a day off just because. I’ve definitely preached it, but now, for me, it’s time to practice it.

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