’90s Fitness Guru Susan Powter Delivers for Uber Eats After Bankruptcy
What To Know
- Susan Powter, the famed ’90s fitness guru, now works as an Uber Eats delivery driver.
- She openly discussed her financial downfall and resilience during a recent appearance on Today.
- A new documentary titled Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter, directed by Zeberiah Newman and executive produced by Jamie Lee Curtis, chronicles her journey.
Susan Powter — the ’90s fitness guru known for her catchphrase, ‘Stop the insanity!’ — recently opened up about delivering for Uber Eats after filing for bankruptcy and losing her fortune.
During a November 18 appearance on Today, Powter, 67, detailed her current life three decades after the height of her fame. She filed for bankruptcy in 1995 following “bad business deals” and “devastating lawsuits” after previously raking in millions per year as a personal trainer, nutritionist, and motivational speaker.
“I take full responsibility. I never checked. I never said, ‘Where’s the money?’ I never said that,” she told Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin of leaving her finances in the hands of advisors, her manager, and business partners.
Today, Powter lives in a low-income senior community in Las Vegas and receives two free meals per week. She also works as an Uber Eats delivery driver.
“Nothing is beneath me,” she said on Today. “I will work, I’ll do anything. And I have, there’s many a job, I’ll tell you. Broke is one thing, broken is another. It started to break me.”
“I’ll deliver your food,” Powter said to the Today studio audience at another point, before turning back to Guthrie and Melvin. “I live in Las Vegas, in my same little apartment. My bed stand is a cardboard box. I’m proud of it, though.”
On November 19, a documentary about her journey, Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter, premiered in select theaters. Zeberiah Newman directed, and Jamie Lee Curtis served as the executive producer.
Powter shared that at first, she rejected Newman’s documentary pitch after he approached her after completing an Uber Eats delivery.
She recalled, “He said, ‘I’ve been looking for you for a year. I’ve wondered where you went. I’m interested in doing a documentary.’ I said, ‘I can’t.’ I had dropped off a Jack in the Box order at Uber Eats… I was working. And I said, ‘What do you mean? Go back on television?’ I wasn’t Susan Powter. That was gone.”
Additionally, Powder shared, “I’m proud that I survived. I didn’t think my being would make it. I didn’t think my energy would survive.”
Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter, now playing in select theaters.