It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.

Rosie O'Donnell hand-picked Rhea as her replacement. She moved to New York in 1989 to study stand-up comedy at the New School for Social Research. She has two sisters Cynthia and Celia.

She is also known for her role as Hilda Spellman from Sabrina the Teenage Witch and for replacing Rosie O'Donnell as the hostess of her syndicated talk show renamed The Caroline Rhea Show. Caroline Gilchrist Rhea (born April 13 1964) is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actress who was the original host of the reality television show The Biggest Loser on NBC until Caroline Rhea was replaced by Alison Sweeney after the end of the third season.