Rae

Since filming finished, things are going really well for Rae. This coming spring, Rae and her husband are about to go on the trip of a lifetime on their motorcycles.

"We're going to fly the  bikes from Calgary to London, ride through Europe and down through Africa," she says, "we are planning on being gone for a year right now, but we'll see how it goes, it's going to be pretty wild. It's really thrilling and really scary all rolled into one."

At the start of Rae's journey, she was going through some tough times. Not only was she dealing with the death of her mom, but she was also having real problems in her marriage. "Things weren't so good, but being on the show actually brought us back together," she says.

After filming finished, Rae did regain some of the weight that she lost. "I'll be honest with you, after X-Weighted finished I kind of took a big breath and relaxed and some of the weight did go back on," she says.

Rae is working hard to lose it again though - "Knowing that we were going on this trip is part of the reason I've had to stay fit and now we are really getting serious, because riding for that long is grueling," she says.

Rae gets recognized all the time. "I was in the emergency room recently and the nurse recognized me from the show. Funnily enough everyone always asks me the same question when they do recognize me - is Paul Plakas really that big a jerk?" she says.

Although her relationship with Paul was strained, Rae said that she got a lot out of working with Fred. "He helped me face some of the stuff I was going through with my mom passing, because I was not willing to deal with that. He was so good with that, because he was so gentle but then he really gets to you because he hits the nail on the head as to what is really going on," says Rae.

October 2009