They are already family! 1000 sister pounds star amy slaton opened up about her sister tammy slatonthe whirlwind of marriage with the husband Caleb Willingham.
“I’m happy to have another brother!” TLC personality, 35, said AND! News on february 7
Amy also recalled how she reacted when Tammy, 36, first informed her that she was in a relationship.
“When she first told me she was dating Caleb, I was like, ‘That’s good,’” the reality star explained. “Maybe they can team up and motivate each other in a way that we couldn’t motivate her as a family because they’re in similar situations.”
Tammy and Caleb, 39, met at a rehab center in Ohio for weight-related issues. The two got engaged in October 2022, according to Sun.
“So today, I decided to cook something up for Tammy,” Caleb said in a confessional before the proposal, according to a teaser clip shared by People. “I’m getting everyone together, our friends, even the staff, and at this point she knows something is up because why is she in the parking lot? She starts shaking a little bit and turns red and does everything that’s absolutely adorable to me about her.”
In the scene, Caleb proposed to Tammy outside of the rehab facility they were staying at.
“So, it’s been a short time, but I know without a doubt that you are the most beautiful, amazing, wonderful person I have ever met. Will you marry me?” she told Tammy before slipping a ring on her finger. The two he shocked fans when they tied the knot just a month later.
“Everyone knew me as Tammy Slaton, but now everyone will know me as Mrs. Tammy Willingham,” the newlywed said. People in November 2022. “Now I am married!”
Tammy later told the outlet that her and Caleb’s wedding ceremony was “perfect,” adding that “there was so much love in the room” at the time. TLC’s official Instagram account shared images from the newlyweds’ special day, which included a photo of Amy and Tammy happily posing for the camera in a single snap.
Season 4 of 1000 sister pounds is documenting Tammy and Caleb’s relationship and marriage, as well as their health journey. On the February 7 episode, viewers watched Tammy reach her ideal weight to be approved for surgery.
“When I got on the scale and saw that the scale was 534.7, I stopped breathing for a second,” the Kentucky native said during a confessional. “I’m like 14 pounds under my goal weight of 700+. That’s a big drop. … I did!”
Tammy has been working hard for a long time to reach her ideal weight, particularly since she was hospitalized in November 2021 and subsequently placed on life support. She later had a tracheostomy, which is a breathing tube inserted through a hole that was surgically created in her throat.
During the season 4 premiere on January 17, the YouTuber recalled her hospitalization. Tammy confessed that she doesn’t “remember any of it” and that, at the time, she weighed 717 pounds, which was “the most [she’s] ever heavy.”
“I completely blacked out,” she said. “I woke up a week later in the hospital, on life support. I dont remember anything.
