The Slaton Sisters / Amy Slaton & Tammy Slaton - The 1000 Pound Sisters

This was episode 6. Got to love Maw just looking straight at the camera.
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John Andrews Stan said:
Tammy has a white boyfriend now?

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He looks like a classroom extra from Beverly Hills 90210. :lol:

Hopefully it's not another feeder and he's just a fan. But if they are dating then this is probably the best she's ever done looks wise. However, it's never for real anyway.

I stand by my previous "lose the horrendous personality and bag yourself a Halterman". I guarantee there's one for her if she became more bearable to be around. I'm sure Michael can hook her up with a lonely, barely sentient cousin or something.
 
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Ronnie Rocket said:
Actually, today is Mama Slaton's 61st birthday!

Edit: Easter Darlene Ellis - 25 Dec 1960
Misty June Ellis - 17 Apr 1976
Christopher Hammond Combs - Oct 1979
Amanda Faye Combs - Dec 1980
Tammy Lynn Slaton - 27 Jul 1986
Amy Elizabeth Slaton - 28 Oct 1987
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Rate me whatever for this, but Darlene had 3 kids by the time she was 20, her first when she was 15. Think of the average 15 year old, and try to imagine them as parents. Throw in poverty & the general lack of education and resources in Hillbilly Hollow, and I feel kind of sad for her. I believe that she did the best she could with what she had, which was damn near nothing. I'm not saying any of the entire family tree & way of life is good or even OK, but damn. It's kind of astonishing that the older kids (and increasingly, Amy) are as functional as they are.
 
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Watching the latest episodes, Tammy is becoming infinitely more stubborn now that the show’s central focus is her monumental failure as a human being. It seems like every short interview they have with her she’s saying “I don’t wanna talk about that, I don’t wanna give details” like a. she didn’t sign up for a reality tv show about her life and b. not verbalizing her continuous and deliberate fuckups will just make them go away. What a stunning piece of shit.
I wish she’d just admit that she has given up and wants to eat herself to death. But the only way she can keep her caretakers around to get her food and clean her waste like a barn animal is to pretend she’s trying. Very sad, but it does make one appreciate their own independence.
 
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IgnorantBystander said:
Rate me whatever for this, but Darlene had 3 kids by the time she was 20, her first when she was 15. Think of the average 15 year old, and try to imagine them as parents. Throw in poverty & the general lack of education and resources in Hillbilly Hollow, and I feel kind of sad for her. I believe that she did the best she could with what she had, which was damn near nothing. I'm not saying any of the entire family tree & way of life is good or even OK, but damn. It's kind of astonishing that the older kids (and increasingly, Amy) are as functional as they are.
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No sympathy. You can easily get an abortion, especially when you are a pregnant child 3 separate times.
 
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I am usually too grossed out to actually watch this show but I watched several of the more recent clips tonight and I was surprised to find myself annoyed on Tammy’s behalf. She’s a brat, no doubt, but here’s what’s fucked up:

Her family does gang up on her, which I’m sure has always been their family dynamic. Has it literally ever worked or helped Tammy? No. They do it because it’s familiar (and in Amy and her brother’s cases, makes them feel better about themselves).

But this confrontational approach is part of the problem.

Of course in the face of being outnumbered, Amy withdraws and gets defensive. Duh. Nothing is more predictable. Yet they deserve their share of responsibility for continuing to engage in this broken approach to communication.

The fact is, this isn’t even about Tammy’s weight. That’s a symptom (like everyone else’s weight) of a much bigger problem: a completely screwed up family where nobody ever felt loved or valued, and where it seems everyone was a victim of child sexual abuse. But those matters are way too dark and scary to get into. That’s how you end up with multiple morbidly obese siblings pointing fingers at another one, making it all about her weight.

The “therapist” didn’t deserve Tammy’s indulgence. It’s very well known amongst therapeutic practitioners that urging a new patient to open up to you about their deepest, most shameful feelings is just going to re-traumatize them. Any therapist worth consideration would know this and insist upon establishing a bond of trust over a significant period of time before broaching such topics.

But this is about entertainment, not helping anyone, so they got this shitty, meek woman to come in and try to force Tammy into humiliating herself.

I could go on, but TLC has a lot to answer for. They’re so awful that they can make a person look at Tammy with sympathy.
 
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Uncle Meat said:
There really isn't any one good place to get a grip on Tam Tam to pick her up. If you lifted her from her armpits like a normal person, her arms would snap off like twigs from the weight. The only way to raise her is to raise her all at once from all over her body, so no single part is bearing the weight of the whole body. I can see it taking at least ten to pick her up and then teams outside to get her out the front door and in the ambulance to pull her in.
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There are actually special ambulance crews and bariatric recovery equipment for these situations (power level: Flight Medic). Bariatric Sked Stretchers, for one. It can be moved by 4-8 people pretty easily. You don't really lift it so much as slide it. Some crews use soft slings, tooo. It wouldn't take 22 people, though. With the number of times that Tammy and Amy have called 911 and the number of transports Tammy has needed, their local EMS would have the address flagged and probably have a bariatric crew that gets called by default. Their country probably sends a firefighter to do a prelim and sit with her until that crew arrives.
Dysnomia said:
I think you might be confusing Amy's husband Michael Halterman with Chris. Michael was a teen when he first kissed and flashed his junk to an 8 year old Amy. I think that Amanda was dating his brother at the time and the brothers were with Amy and Tammy at the time. Although it might have just been a friend of Michael's. If you dig enough the video of the story might still be on Amy's channel. I found the shorter first kiss video and posted it probably 100-200 pages ago. But I didn't get to the longer version. But there is one with more detail. It's one of her "Answer X amount of questions challenge" type videos I think.
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Yeah. The original video that Amy had posted to YouTube (pre-show) was quite graphic and made it impossible for me to see their relationship as a healthy one. Amy originally claimed that Chris lured Amy and Tammy into the basement, where Mike was hanging out with some other friends of his. Amy used to say that Michael pushed her up against a basement wall and exposed his genitals to her when she was eight. He also, allegedly, forced her to "touch him". Then, he started kissing and groping her. This was not a one time thing. At one point, Amy claimed that she "got used to it because that's what teenagers do". She, like many child victims, normalized the behavior. What gets me about that story is it suggests Chris, her brother, was present and didn't stop this.
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Watching the latest episodes, Tammy is becoming infinitely more stubborn now that the show’s central focus is her monumental failure as a human being. It seems like every short interview they have with her she’s saying “I don’t wanna talk about that, I don’t wanna give details” like a. she didn’t sign up for a reality tv show about her life and b. not verbalizing her continuous and deliberate fuckups will just make them go away. What a stunning piece of shit.
I wish she’d just admit that she has given up and wants to eat herself to death. But the only way she can keep her caretakers around to get her food and clean her waste like a barn animal is to pretend she’s trying. Very sad, but it does make one appreciate their own independence.
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Tammy has always been obnoxiously stubborn and manipulative. That didn't just manifest from TLC's involvement. In the early years, Tammy and Amy were both stubborn brats. I think they both thought the show would make them rich. It was telling that Amy still believes that YouTube is her job and that she can afford a house because they'd saved the YouTube money. If she'd been saving, she wouldn't have needed to be such a grifter.
John Andrews Stan said:
Her family does gang up on her, which I’m sure has always been their family dynamic. Has it literally ever worked or helped Tammy? No. They do it because it’s familiar (and in Amy and her brother’s cases, makes them feel better about themselves).

But this confrontational approach is part of the problem.
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I don't think the family gangs up on her so much as the family has just lost patience. Rightfully so. She does nothing to help herself and she wants to be waited on hand and foot. None of them have healthy relationships but Tammy isn't a helpless child. She's a grown adult who acts like a child.
 
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LogicBeetch said:
Tammy isn't a helpless child. She's a grown adult who acts like a child.
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I don’t disagree. But that can also be true simultaneously with the fact that her siblings are on autopilot with how they outnumber and confront her. Not to mention how adversarial Chris is every single time. (Aside: Motherfucker needs to stop ranting and hollering while holding a newborn baby. That is far from acceptable and he should have handed the child over before he lost his shit like that.)

Being fed up is no excuse for continuing to perpetrate fucked up communication dynamics. If TLC wanted to help them while producing good content, they’d get them family dynamic and communication coaching from a legit therapist. This isn’t talk therapy to humiliate anyone, but constructive guidance and instruction to enable them not to repeat the broken communication habits of a lifetime.
 
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