Tracy Anderson

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Tracy Anderson
Born (1975-03-03) March 3, 1975 (age 49)
Alma mater American Musical and Dramatic Academy
Occupation(s) Entrepreneur, Fitness Trainer, Author
Known forTracy Anderson Method
Spouses
Eric Anderson
(m. 1998;div. 2008)
Matthew Mogol
(m. 2011;div. 2013)
Chris Asplundh
(m. 2021)
Children2

Tracy Anderson (born March 3, 1975) [1] is an American fitness entrepreneur and author. She is best known for her Tracy Anderson Method and for having various celebrity clients. [2] [3] [4]

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Early life and career

The daughter of dance instructor Diana Ephlin, [5] Anderson trained in dance from an early age in Noblesville, Indiana. She initially hoped to become a professional dancer in New York City. After a 40 lb. weight gain during her first year in New York City, Anderson switched her focus to weight loss/fitness training as a career. Anderson has gym locations in Los Angeles, New York City, The Hamptons, Spain and London and has a DVD collection for at-home training. In 2015, Tracy Anderson launched an online fitness program called TA Video Streaming. Each week, subscribers receive new workouts filmed in real-time at one of her studios. The online streaming workouts are divided into beginner (sTArt), intermediate (fundamenTAl) and advanced (atTAin). [ citation needed ]

She issued a pregnancy workout DVD collection aimed at women in the pre-and-postnatal periods. [6]

Critical reviews

In an April 2015 article in The Washington Post, personal trainer Kat Whitfield asserts that Anderson's methods "certainly don’t follow exercise physiology principles." [7]

Personal life

Tracy Anderson married basketball player Eric Anderson in 1998 and their son Sam was born that same year. The couple divorced in 2008. Eric Anderson died in 2018. [8] [9] [10] [11]

On September 27, 2011, she married Matthew Mogol. Their daughter, Penelope, was born in May 2012. [12] In 2013, Anderson and Mogol split. [13] According to ExtraTv, Matthew Mogol died on July 20, 2020 at the age of 48 after a battle with cancer. [14]

In 2016, Anderson began dating Scottish-born hedge fund manager Nicholas Riley. They announced their engagement in early 2018 on Instagram. [15] In April 2018, sources reported that Riley had called off their engagement. [16]

Sometime in 2018, Anderson began dating Chris Asplundh. They got engaged in March 2020 when Asplundh proposed at Anderson's 45th birthday party. The couple married in 2021. [17]

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