Former fitness guru Susan Powter has credited motherhood with helping her overcome financial instability. Powter built a fitness empire in the 1990s with her Stop the Insanity! infomercials and exercise videos before a series of bad business deals and lawsuits forced her to file for bankruptcy in 1995. Susan Powter married her first husband, Nic Villarreal, in 1982 and they shared two sons: Damien, born in 1983, and Kiel, born in 1984.