Fitness guru Kayla Itsines has revealed the extreme measures she took for self-protection amid a seven-month long stalking ordeal.
The fitness influencer and personal trainer, 33, revealed she had to obtain two guard dogs after a man waited outside her home ‘every single day’ for months.
Itsines this week shared her story on the YouTube channel of Protection Dogs Worldwide, the organisation that provided the animals.
As Kayla shared her harrowing ordeal, the video showed her happily playing with what appeared to be two Dobermanns.
Kayla revealed a chance meeting with the unnamed man, who initially seemed to be ‘the nicest person in the world,’ eventually turned into something darker.
‘I was really young and I was outside my house one day and a really young surfie looking blonde kid pulled up in a car and stopped in front of my house and got out of the car,’ Kayla said in the video.
‘He said to me: “Oh my god I’m so sorry, this is so embarrassing. My girlfriend absolutely loves you, she does your programs, do you mind if I get a selfie? I was just driving past the worksite, I work down the road.”‘
Kayla said she was only too happy to take a selfie with the man, before going one step further and filming a video for him too.
Fitness guru Kayla Itsines has revealed that she had a stalker for seven months and ha to acquire protection dogs to feel safe
After the seemingly innocent encounter, Kayla said she started seeing the man more and more.
‘He just seemed like the nicest person in the whole world. Anyway, this kept happening because he worked down the road.’
Kayla admitted that things changed one day when the man pulled up beside her while she was sitting in her car.
‘It would’ve gotten to seven months later, I was in my car and he pulled up next to me in his car and he wound down the window and said to me, “wind down your window,” she explained.
Kayla revealed that a chance meeting with who she described as ‘the nicest person in the world’ seemed innocuous enough in the beginning, but eventually turned into something darker than waving hello
‘Something in my brain was like wait a second this doesn’t feel right. I was thinking I’m in a really bad situation right now and I cant work it out.’
Kayla then took her concerns to a family member who while at first told her she was being silly, tried to allay her concerns by suggesting she check her security camera footage.
However, what Kayla saw shocked her.
‘Every single day for seven months straight, this man would park on a dead end street, wait until I got out of my house, and he would drive past every single day,’ she said.
‘Once a week I would notice him, but every single day he drove past,’ she said.
Kayla revealed she finally tracked the man down, only to discover that he lived more than 30 minutes away from her and did not work down the road as he had claimed.
Kayla then discovered that the man’s motives were stranger than she could’ve thought.
‘We tracked him down and got a hold of one of his family members and, long story short, his job was, he was given a task to convert me to some sort of church group,’ she said.
‘Something in my brain was like wait a second this doesn’t feel right. I was thinking I’m in a really bad situation right now and I cant work it out’
‘So his job was to befriend me and then bring me into this group of people which was very very weird.’
Kayla added that the whole ordeal made her feel ashamed and unsafe, until a friend suggested that she get a dog for protection.
‘I felt so embarrassed, ashamed, unsafe sad and honestly I felt so stupid for trusting someone that I thought was, not a friend, but completely fine when it really wasn’t,’ she said.
Kayla added that the whole ordeal made her feel ashamed and unsafe, until a friend suggested that she get a dog for protection
Taking her friend’s advice Kayla admitted that her dogs had given her much-needed peace of mind.
‘I have never slept more soundly in my entire life knowing I have my dogs there,’ she said.
‘They are just the most incredible things. I cannot explain how grateful I am for the two most amazing dogs in the world.’
Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Kayla Itsines for comment.
Kayla and her husband Jae Woodruff moved from Adelaide to the Gold Coast earlier this year.
She is mother to daughter, Arna, five, and son Jax, one.
‘I have never slept more soundly in my entire life knowing I have my dogs there,’ she said. Kayla is pictured with husband Jae Woodroffe