{"id":379514,"date":"2021-12-11T03:39:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T00:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meet-the-real-peloton-instructor-from-and-just-like-that\/"},"modified":"2021-12-11T03:39:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T00:39:51","slug":"meet-the-real-peloton-instructor-from-and-just-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meet-the-real-peloton-instructor-from-and-just-like-that\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meet the real Peloton instructor from &#8216;And Just Like That&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Meet the real Peloton instructor from &#8216;And Just Like That&#8217;<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Warning: This article contains major\u00a0spoilers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSex and the City\u201d limited <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> revival \u201cAnd Just Like That\u2026\u201d shocked fans in its first episode with a main character\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie Bradshaw\u2019s love, John James Preston, A\u2009K\u2009A Mr. Big (played by Chris Noth) died from a heart attack after riding a Peloton bike. During that fateful ride, he was being coached by a cycling instructor named Allegra. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, Allegra is a real person. The character is portrayed by Peloton trainer Jess King.<\/p>\n<p>King, 36, teaches bike and tread classes for the fitness company. <\/p>\n<p>According to her Peloton biography, \u201cJess is a charismatic instructor with a boundless energy and passion for movement. With a background in dance, performance and fitness, Jess grew up down South and moved to NYC to commit to a career in wellness.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Jess King\" class=\"wp-image-20450681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Fitness instructor and actress Jess King <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared on the competition show, \u201cSo You Think You Can Dance\u201d in 2008.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of @jesskingnyc<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fitness guru worked as a professional dancer and competed on Season 4 of\u00a0the dance conception series <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soyouthinkyoucandance.fandom.com\/wiki\/Jessica_King\">\u201cSo You Think You Can Dance\u201d<\/a> before becoming a trainer, and also starred in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelist.com\/342380\/the-untold-truth-of-peloton-instructor-jess-king\/\">a Las Vegas run of \u201cCirque du Soleil.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>King took to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> on Thursday to thank her fans for the love she received from appearing on the show. \u201cThank you for all of the messages,\u201d she wrote on\u00a0Instagram. \u201cGo watch @justlikethatmax on @hbomax!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/and-just-like-that-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mr. Big exercises on a Peloton bike before suffering a heart attack.\" class=\"wp-image-20322032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/and-just-like-that-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/and-just-like-that-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/and-just-like-that-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mr. Big of \u201cSex in the City\u201d exercises on a Peloton bike before suffering a heart attack.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Myrtle Beach native is the daughter of female bodybuilder Ximena Bernales, so it\u2019s no secret that wellness is in King\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thepathmag.com\/peloton-instructor-jess-king-talks-workout-revolutionizing-spin\/\">with the Path<\/a>, the South Carolinian said, \u201cMy mother was a competitive bodybuilder, the owner of personal training boutique fitness studios and she educated and exposed me to all the things fitness and wellness.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Jess King\" class=\"wp-image-20450699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-03.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cWhat drew me to Peloton was the impact on people\u2019s lives I would now have,\u201d King said.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of @jesskingnyc<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She also recalled that she tried to make it as a Broadway performer in 2014 and was having difficulty getting cast. That\u2019s when a producer suggested she meet with Peloton, which was looking for instructors who were comfortable in front of the camera. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also wanted me to audition to be an instructor at Peloton, but I told them no, that I could take the job and would be great at it. I might be the only instructor ever who never had to audition for Peloton,\u201d she explained. \u201cI felt confident as an authority on the body and in my abilities to perform and connect with an audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-07.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Jess King\" class=\"wp-image-20450721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-07.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-07.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/jess-king-allegra-sex-city-07.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>When Peloton went after Jess King to audition to become a spin instructor, the trainer-turned-entertainer refused, she told the Path.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of @jesskingnyc<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>She continued, \u201cWhat drew me to Peloton was the impact on people\u2019s lives I would now have. As a dancer you seek to elicit emotion from your audience via physical expression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.self.com\/story\/peloton-jess-king-hispanic-heritage-month\">Self magazine<\/a> in a separate interview published in September that she was \u201cinitially very resistant to abandoning my dance career. I had never even been on an\u00a0exercise bike\u00a0before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And being a proud Latina doesn\u2019t hurt her career either. <\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cBeing Latina is inherently part of who I am, and at Peloton, we are encouraged to show up at work authentically and wholly, and I take that very seriously.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The \u201cSex and the City\u201d limited series revival \u201cAnd Just Like That\u2026\u201d shocked fans in its first episode with a main character\u2019s death. Carrie Bradshaw\u2019s love, John James Preston, A\u2009K\u2009A Mr. Big (played by Chris Noth) died from a heart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/peloton-satc.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[121405,94359,72201,71265,73020],"class_list":["post-379514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-10-21","tag-chris-noth","tag-peloton","tag-sarah-jessica-parker","tag-sex-and-the-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}