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Jillian Michaels Says You Misunderstood Her When She Said She Wished She Was Straight

Fitness personality and Biggest Loser screamer Jillian Michaels caused controversy in her Health magazine profile this month when the interviewer asked her, "Have you always been comfortable talking openly about being gay?"

Michaels responded with her typical lukewarm ambivalence:

I don't know that I am now, to be honest with you. The gay thing has always been hard for me. When Heidi and I are out and somebody older asks, "Are you sisters?" I say, "We're friends."

I guess it comes from thinking that they will be shocked or disturbed. Look, I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be "normal" like that, but I'm just not.

Understandably, the Internet went nuts, with outlets calling her assimilationist fantasies "damaging" to the cultural psyche. Well, Michaels wants you to know that she's "disheartened" that you misunderstood her.

In a statement to People, she said:

I am deeply disheartened and sorry to hear that members of the gay community have misunderstood the points I was trying to make about being ‘out.’ I attempted to shed light on how hard and scary it can be to be out.

That gay families get attacked and even small daily interactions involve others being ‘shocked and disturbed’ by the gay lifestyle. I was saying if along the way in my life that had been a choice I would have made it, but it’s not who I am. Gay is not a choice. If I was ashamed of who I am, I would be in the closet. Considering my family was on the cover of People magazine, I think I’m pretty far from that.

There you have it: She's totally 100% super into being a lesbian, so stop making it seem like she said it would be "such a dream to be 'normal'" and have a football player husband, okay?

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