22-04-2025
Amanda Kloots Wants You to Have Proper Nutrition
Amanda Kloots specializes in staying in motion. Like, literally. As a fitness instructor, her videos are an inspirational, kaleidoscopic whirlwind of cardio dancing and jump roping. She even designed her own AK! Jump Rope: nine feet of non-coil rope material with pretty rose gold handles emblazoned with the words 'Jump, Skip, Smile,' so she could optimize her moves and make the workout accessible for everyone. Then there's her work on the CBS series The Talk that earned her a Daytime Emmy nod for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host and catapulted her into a role as a moderator on the Netflix series Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry. Did we mention she's a single mom who wrote a beautiful memoir with her sister Anna just six months after the death of her husband? She penned Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero about the Broadway star, who died of COVID at the start of the pandemic in 2020 when he was only 41 and Kloots was pregnant with their son, Elvis.
'Since I was 18 and moved to New York from Ohio, I have always been hustling. I always had to have a plan, have a job, have a way. I love it because I love creating,' Kloots says while in a hair and makeup chair getting ready for an appearance. Her latest creation — aside from her own CBD muscle relief cream — is a line of superfood supplements that is part of her Proper health line. The nutrient-dense and affordable powders (sold online for $28 each and meant to be added to water, juice or smoothies) include the Greens: a mix of spinach, kale, spirulina and other, well, green things. Then there is the gut-health promoting Pinks, with digestive enzymes; the Oranges for immune support; the Yellows, with an energy-boosting blend of CoQ10 and green tea extract; and the Lavenders, to end the day with reishi mushroom, magnesium and ashwagandha, for stress relief and balance. In some ways, Proper might be her favorite hustle because of her coworker: now-5-year-old Elvis. 'He's my taste tester,' Kloots says. 'When you can convince a 5-year-old to drink his greens, you know you have a winner.'
