Thursday 18 August 2022 11:19 PM Former Biggest Loser star Ajay Rochester is broke and working as an Airtasker trends now
Former Biggest Loser star Ajay Rochester, 53, says she completely broke and is struggling to get back to the US where she lived for over a decade before the pandemic.
The once decorated TV star is now working as an Airtasker, doing chores to raise funds for a flight back to Los Angeles.
Airtasker is a Sydney-based company, which outsources everyday tasks from everything to cleaning, booking keeping, bricklaying and driving.
Former Biggest Loser star Ajay Rochester, 53, says she completely broke and is struggling to get back to the US where she lived for over a decade before the pandemic. She is pictured at Taronga Zoo last November
Ajay put her career as a casting director aside during the Covid pandemic, jetting back to Sydney to be with her son, Kai.
She is now fighting to finalise her US visa - while the American Embassy in Sydney remains closed, she was forced to spend her last remaining savings on a flight to Fiji to sort her Green Card paperwork earlier this month.
'I am broke,' Ajay told the Daily Telegraph's Confidential.
'I have lived off all of my savings over the past few years being literally stuck in Australia and my work is in America.
'You are made to feel like a loser if you are pay cheque to pay cheque … it is expensive and the money has run out.
'There is broke, as in living in a tent, and there is broke as in I have been paying two rents broke. But broke is broke.'
She relocated to the United States for a fresh start in 2009.
But in 2020, after more than a decade of living in Los Angeles, the former Biggest Loser host flew back to Australia after becoming so sick of the lockdown in the United States.
'I spent 10 months in my apartment locked up, like a self-imposed prisoner terrified of this virus while millions of others go about doing what they want and it just spiraled out of control,' she told the Daily Telegraph at the time.
'I just knew I had to go. I had this gut feeling. People here don't realise how lucky they have it.'
Leaving her life in America behind wasn't easy for Ajay, who had to deal with a lot of bureaucracy before being permitted to fly out of the country.
It took her three months to find a way home due to tough Covid-19 restrictions.
'I got home in the end so I'm one of the lucky ones as there are so many who haven't been as fortunate,' said the mother of one.
In 2021, Ajay revealed she is following in Rebel Wilson's footsteps after being inspired by the actress' 'year of health'.
Last year she
