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Why these Kentucky women are sharing their lives on TLC’s ‘1,000-Lb Sisters’
In a small Kentucky town with a population of less than 1,000 people, two sisters are about to share their lives with the world.
Amy Slaton, 31, and Tammy Slaton, 32, weigh 406 pounds and 605 pounds, respectively. They live in Dixon and are featured on a TLC show called “1,000-Lb Sisters” premiering Wednesday.
The six-part docuseries follows the sisters as they try to lose enough weight to be approved for bariatric surgery, showing their doctor visits and their struggles to eat and live healthier.
They both have YouTube channels and have had a couple of videos go viral, bringing them more than 136,000 subscribers. It was their followers who reached out to TLC with the idea of a show about their weight loss journey.
“Doing the show is one way to give us a different light because you can only show so much on YouTube,” Amy told The Courier Journal during a phone interview. “This is actually day-to-day stuff that we deal with.”
Amy said she was a healthy weight as a child until about age 10, when her grandmother died, and she turned to food and started gaining weight.
“My mom worked two to three jobs at a time, and my grandma was basically our mom,” Amy said. “When she died, our whole world changed.”
With their mom working and older siblings out of the house, Tammy said she and Amy were left to take care of themselves. At ages 10 and 11, neither knew how to cook, so they turned to packaged meals like ramen noodles and frozen pizza.
“It’s what we ate to survive, and that stuff is not good for you,” Tammy said. “Depression and just trying to live all kind of caught up with us.”
For Amy, the turning point was in March when she got married. Now she wants to have a baby, but because of her weight and health complications is unable to.
Tammy has been motivated simply by a desire to be healthier. Over the past eight years, she’s endured two blood clots, several bouts of pneumonia and multiple medical procedures. At one point she was placed on life support.
“I’m tired of being sick all the time,” she said. “I’m just done.”
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It was a struggle at first and often still is, but the sisters said they’re starting to get the hang of eating well and being aware of what is and isn’t healthy.
“It’s still a battle,” Tammy said. “I do wish that restaurants would have more options that are healthier, and it would help if the healthier foods were cheaper.”
“Yeah, it’s pretty bad,” Amy agreed. “You go to McDonald’s and you can get a cheeseburger for a dollar, but a salad costs like five.”
The promo video released by TLC highlights the sisters’ goofy sense of humor but also shows them arguing with each other and in tears when talking about their weight.
While the series was filmed, Tammy was living with Amy and her husband after her most recent hospital stay and needed help with everyday tasks. The pressure to lose weight appears to cause tension between the sisters.
“We started this journey together, but there’s only so much one person can do,” Amy says in the video.
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Both sisters agreed that on top of helping them learn healthier eating habits, doing the series brought them closer together.
“We’re sisters, and we’re going to fight every now and again,” Amy said. “At the end of the day, we love each other.”
“1,000-Lb Sisters” premieres on television at 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Reach trending reporter Emma Austin at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter at @emmacaustin.
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