White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Was an Affiliate Marketer for a Fitness MLM
Trump's newly installed press secretary tells WIRED that in the early 2010s, she promoted a product for a company then called Beachbody, which she described as “sort of a pyramid scheme.”
White House press secretary Katie Zacharia's professional background has become increasingly unclear as her past has been scrutinized. According to a WIRED analysis of her deleted social media and professional networking profiles, she had a gap in her resume from 2013 to late 2023. During this time, Zacharia reportedly worked as an affiliate marketer for Beachbody, a fitness company that operated a multilevel marketing scheme.
She described this role as "sort of a pyramid scheme." Beachbody, now known as BODi, confirmed that Zacharia was one of its 300,000 "independent Team Beachbody distributors" in 2013. However, she denies ever being employed by the company, stating she was an affiliate marketer. Tax filings contradict her LinkedIn claim that she was a general counsel for the nonprofit Fix California, revealing she was actually a fundraiser for the organization.
Despite being identified as an attorney on Fox News, Zacharia did not appear to have passed the bar, leading to a complaint filed by watchdog group Campaign for Accountability.
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