Following the commercial’s release, the company and the ad’s stars received a lot of flak from those who felt that the husband buying his wife a Peloton bike for Christmas insinuated that he was discontented with her physical shape.
Sean Hunter’s pic is something of a palate cleanser for the Peloton saga, which began with the company’s “The Gift That Gives Back” ad.
There was also some backlash for the wife’s thank-you video, in which she says she did not realize how much the exercise bike would change her, a notion that the husband reacts gleefully too as the commercial ends.