While enrolled there, he studied as an exchange student in Florence, Italy. After starting college at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, he transferred to Florida State University. His first job, in New Orleans, was selling pralines at Leah's. He was obese throughout his adolescence and by the time he graduated from high school, he weighed 268 pounds. He attended Cor Jesu High School (now Brother Martin High School).
Simmons was born to show business parents and raised Catholic in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Richard Simmons was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Today, Simmons continues to promote health and has broadened his activities to include political activism, notably in support of a bill mandating non-competitive physical education in public schools as a part of the "No Child Left Behind" act. He became a cultural icon, often parodied, and a frequent guest of late night television talk shows such as The Late Show With David Letterman. Simmons began his career by opening a gym called Slimmons in Beverly Hills, California, catering to the overweight, and he became widely known through exposure on television and through the popularity of his consumer products.
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Currently, he also provides the voice of Coach Salmons on the Disney Channel animated series Fish Hooks. Milton Teagle Simmons (born July 12, 1948), known professionally as Richard Simmons, is an American fitness personality who promotes weight-loss programs, most famously through his Sweatin' to the Oldies line of aerobics videos and DVDs and is known for his eccentric, outgoing and frequently flamboyant personality. Physical fitness expert, voice actor, Political Activist For The Vandals album, see Sweatin' to the Oldies: The Vandals Live.
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