Susan Powter was the face of ’90s fitness, a high-energy presence in a platinum blond buzzcut urging America to abandon the fad diets and “stop the insanity!”

Her infomercials were ubiquitous as she built a fitness empire worth tens of millions of dollars and released three bestselling books. She was a wellness influencer decades before that was a term, regularly chatting it up with David Letterman and Jay Leno on late-night television.

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Then she disappeared for 30 years.

Powter, 67, is now sharing her story of going from fitness fame to living paycheck to paycheck as an Uber Eats driver in Las Vegas .

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Her journey is captured in the new documentary “Stop t

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