Before Raven Ross went on Love Is Blind season 3, she started building her fitness empire.
“Oh my gosh, it was not easy,” Ross, 32, said on the Sunday, June 1, episode of the “Sunday Sports Club” podcast. “Because Pilates is so popular, a lot of people have the aspiration to become an instructor, and I’m, like, ‘Girl, are you well?’”
She added, “I think my training was, like, $10,000 [and] literally at some points I was like, ‘Am I in med school?’ Learning so much about the body [and taking] all these tests, all the time. Then, on top of that, we had to get private instruction from our instructors.”
According to Ross, her “very exhausting” journey included taking classes, getting practice teaching and more.
“So, I did that and then, years down the line, I had to redo it to become a master teacher trainer, so I can now teach courses,” Ross said. “I did that a few years ago, but it was so worth it. It was so draining [and] a lot of work went into it.”
Ross started her Pilates training during the COVID-19 pandemic, which preceded her stint on Love Is Blind. (On the show, she got engaged to Sikiru “SK” Alagbada before he broke up with her at the altar. They briefly dated after the show but eventually split over cheating allegations that he denied.)
“I started my YouTube channel [after] only the first season had come out,” she said on Sunday’s episode, acknowledging that her eventual reality TV fame “100 percent” helped her business. “It’s not like this was a sure thing. [My season] could very well not have ever come out. I was, like, living my life post-Love Is Blind. I was like, ‘Who knows what’s going to come of this?’”
She added, “You do this life-altering thing and then you go back to your normal life, so that’s what I did. I started my YouTube channel, so by the time Love Is Blind came out, over a year later, I already had [an audience] and a TikTok talking about Pilates. … When the show came out, it was a huge propeller, like, God bless.”
In addition to her usual classes, Ross launched a 14-day “Revenge Body” program on Playbook after season 3 hit Netflix.
“It’s something that I’ve, like, literally poured my heart and soul into,” Ross exclusively told Us Weekly of the program in February 2023. “It’s really helped me to kind of, like, overcome mental and physical challenges and I hope that it inspires other people to do the same.”
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