OKay so I went toally silent……sorry about that but there was a very good reason for it. I was signed to a confidentiality agreement that in the end meant nothing, not even the paper it was written on but oh well, that’s life. Anyway, it does mean, at last, that I can speak. Yay!!!!!!

First of all I am so excited that Oprah has announced a date. It gives me a date to work with. Sept 8th 2011. Brilliant. I will so get on her couch WELL before that time.

Anyway while most people think I have been sitting quietly doing nothing I have in fact been making very real moves towards that coveted spot on the couch.

So this is what happened. I went to LA to just suss things out, follow a few leads and see what the vibe was. Well the vibe was amazing. The L.Aliens love aussies and I found myself meeting all sorts of people and talking my way into all sorts of meetings. It was hilarious and became a bit of a game.

Well you could have bowled me over with a feather when I found myself being offered a job……wait for it…..drum roll please, co hosting Celebrity Fit Club USA!!!!! Yes!!! OMG I was so excited. Beside myself…..I was there six weeks and got a job and I wasn’t even looking. Hey I’d have been happy with a book deal. Bloody Celebrity Fit Club USA!!! I was on my way! It was the season where K-Fed and Bobby Brown are in and it was completely surreal that I was going to be on it! Finally a place where I could use my own experience and my own voice, a show where I could be my own passionate self and show people that I do care and that I have been there done fat!

Slight problem - no work visa. Well, I didn’t realise I’d get a job so bloody quickly did I????

So we made a deal. I would go home and pack QUIETLY , ie confidentiality contract, (hmm that went a bit haywire thank you to the people who threw my stuff in a skip bin after stealing it!!GRRR) and VH1 would get my visa for me. Kai and I would get back to the states just in time and all would be well and I would be on my way to that comfy little couch jumping session with the Big O who I know would love my books and of course a book deal was a given now I had that job. Wooohhoooooooo!!!!!

So off we went, I sold everything I owned at bargain prices (which to be honest I didn’t really own a lot…..most of my furniture has been collected from the salvos and vinnies god bless them…), I did everything I had to to get the visa and Kai and I waited to get back to start filming in time which was September. I turned down a few jobs because I had one (even though I was not yet getting paid) and all seemed well.

Anyway I won’t go into what happened, and it doesn’t really matter any more but things went haywire at the last moment and I turned up in the USA with no son, no job and worst of all no VISA!!!!! OMG!!!!Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course I wasn’t going to go in there guns blazing saying “Hi I’m the new girl in town. Here’s my lawyer….” Haha as if! No, I just decided it was meant to be and that something far greater was waiting for me and I just had to find it.

I decided that it was not going to stop me. And so I spent the next ten weeks chasing the dream.
Guess what? I got it! Yep. A 3 year O 1 Visa. The best visa I can get.

And OMG so many amazing things happened to me when I was there in LA it was incredible! Seriously. And I will save some of those stories for another post but these last few months have been the most extraordinary.

Seriously. I have made amazing contacts, experienced true humility and incredible generosity, been a part of some life changing experiences for others and myself, witnessed my son grow beyond his capabilities both emotionally and psychologically and had the weirdest most wonderful scariest yet incredible trip of my life.

This year is going to be amazing. There is so much happening I want to scream it from the rooftops but I can’t just yet. But suffice it to say, this year I WILL take my message of healing beyond the shores of Australia, I will build Healthy Body Club into an international safe place of healing, health, growth, education and inspiration, I WILL help others heal their lives, I WILL continue to heal my own, I will help my son find peace and security and I WILL jump on Oprah Winfrey’s couch.

There’s so much more to cover about what I have been up to including what has gone on with my own journey of healing and what has gone on in the media about that the last few months, haha, and over the next few weeks I will speak THE TRUTH of what has really gone on. The biggest lesson I learned last year is the media can print want they want (obviously) but you have to know your own truth and that is all that matters. You’d go mad or be suicidal if you didn’t but let me tell you, it takes strength I never knew I had to not listen to all the bullsh*t!

I can’t speak about the mag war just yet but when the dust settles I WILL and everyone will know the truth and that all I have ever wanted and intended is to help others heal their lives and their bodies as I have done (and continually do) with mine - both emotionally and physically and try as they might to twist my message they cannot stop me because the cream always rises to the top and I will not be stopped until women know their own strength, learn how to love themselves and accept that they have the power to heal their own life in whatever way that works for them.

Thanks for listening and will check in again shortly with more catching up.
2010……I’m aiming for a Nadia Comaneci perfect 10 of a year. You should too!
Aim High!!!!!!! And onions to anyone who says you shouldn’t!