Tammy Slaton and Amy Slaton are the stars of the popular show, ‘1000-lb sisters’, which follows the Slatons as they try to lose enough weight to qualify for and have life-saving surgery.
The decision to turn your life around is not an easy one. While there are a lot of people who are overweight, it takes a lot of courage to decide to make a much-needed change to your life if it is what you need.
It can be a long, difficult road, especially when the habits that got you there in the first place are coping mechanisms that have helped you get to a comfortable place.
Amy and Tammy Slaton are two sisters who weighed a combined 1000 pounds at the beginning of the show, which led to the show’s name. In the time since the show has started airing, though, a lot had happened to and between the sisters that they are no longer the same as when they started.
Top 10 early facts about Tammy Slaton and Amy Slaton
- Amy Slaton is married and has a son who she conceived against her doctor’s advice.
- Amy and Tammy have a tumultuous relationship with their mother, Darlene.
- Tammy has ended up in the hospital for several reasons, including gout, blood clots, pneumonia, and was once placed on life support.
- Amy and Tammy Slaton were originally YouTube stars, and their fans reached out to TLC, a real life entertainment media house, on their behalf to give them a show.
- Tammy tried to kill herself once before the show aired as she is suffering from severe depression.
- According to Metro UK, TLC paid the Slaton sisters between $1,500 and $3,000 per episode.
- Tammy is hoping to be able to move in with her boyfriend after losing weight.
- While Amy has managed to lose some weight, Tammy is struggling not to gain more weight.
- Amy and Tammy are reportedly worth a combined three hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($350,000).
- Tammy Slaton forehead bulge is called a fat socket, and it happens when the body begins to seek other places to store excess fat. Her doctors say that when she loses some weight, her forehead will gradually return to normal.
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Early life of the 1000 lb sisters
Amy and Tammy Slaton are sisters from Kentucky in the Southern area of the USA. Amy was born in 1988, while Tammy was born in 1987 in Dixon, Kentucky. They were born to Darlene, a single mother who had to spend all her time working, so they lived with their grandmother.
Through their early years, they lived happily while being taken care of by their grandmother. However, when Amy and Tammy were 10 and 11 years old, respectively, their grandmother died, and the two sisters had to start taking care of themselves.
Amy has said about this, “My mom worked two to three jobs at a time, and my grandma was basically our mom. When she died, our whole world changed.”
After their grandmother’s death, the two young children had to feed themselves with ramen and pizza, and this is where their struggles with their weight started.
“It’s what we ate to survive, and that stuff is not good for you. Depression and just trying to live all kind of caught up with us. You go to McDonald’s, and you can get a cheeseburger for a dollar, but a salad costs like five,” Amy said.
Over the years, the two gained even more weight and started to develop chronic physical and mental health issues. At first, they documented their weight struggles on Amy’s YouTube channel, which now has almost 500 thousand subscribers.
Their fans became very concerned for them and got in touch with TLC to get them some help with their weight. TLC, which used to be known as The Learning Channel, is famous for its human-interest stories.
Of their shows, though, the story of Amy and Tammy Slaton captured viewers’ hearts the most. This is probably because of how their food addiction started and their motivation for trying to lose weight.
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Tammy Slaton
Tammy Slaton got her start on fame through her sister’s YouTube channel, where the two shared lighthearted videos about themselves. With the fame came hate comments, however, and the sisters had to share a video responding to the hate comments.
Tammy’s health got very bad, so much that she was hospitalized more than once for gout, blood clots, and pneumonia. She also suffers from extreme diabetes and has very high blood pressure. Once, she was even placed on life support.
During an interview with People, she mentioned that she tried committing suicide because she suffered from extreme depression.
“I attempted to kill myself last January,” she told the publication. “I had a feeling that if I didn’t make changes now, I wasn’t going to live past 35.”
