AMY Slaton has slammed her sister Tammy’s ‘bad boy’ ex-boyfriends and begged her to pick men who “support” her weight loss as she remains in rehab for food addiction.
The 1000-Lb Sisters star, who features on the TLC show with her elder sibling, is expecting her second child in July, and shares 15-month-old Gage with husband Michael Halterman.
She said her partner fully supports her weight loss and she wants Tammy to find happiness with a similar guy – not a man with a fetish for overweight women.
Speaking to The Sun from her home in Morganfield, Kentucky, she said: “I didn’t like any of her boyfriends, they were cool to talk to but not [suitable for a] relationship.
“I know how Tammy gets, she loses herself in a relationship, she puts her heart and soul into it.
“She don’t care what they eat is unhealthy or not. She’s like, ‘What do you want to eat? Pizza? Ok, let’s go get it.’ She was not worried about the repercussions to her body.
“These guys were not bringing out the best in her, this one guy just wanted fat women, it’s not good when you’re trying to lose weight.
“I hope she meets someone who supports her, and I hope she has some kind of surgery when she comes out of rehab.”
Talking about her own marriage after tying the knot with Michael in 2019, she said: “His brother’s married to my sister, but they’re getting divorced.
“So we actually met when I was eight so we were dating then, but then when he turned 18, we stopped dating until recently.
“He loves me and supports me. He don’t care how much I weigh, how much I lose. He don’t care.
“He just wants me and the babies to be healthy. He’s excited about being a dad again, [but] secretly he wanted a girl.”
Fans have been following Tammy’s journey for three years on the show and she’s dated a number of guys, including Phillip Redmond, who reportedly calls himself “BBW King,” meaning he likes bigger women.
The pair met on TikTok and got serious before splitting last year before she went into rehab in Ohio to tackle her ballooning weight.
The Sun revealed Tammy has already lost 115lbs in just 30 days at the addiction facility and is now tipping the scales at around 556lbs.
“It’s a bit isolating, but I still think she’s in the best place,” Amy said. “She already asked us once to go there, I just knew I had to get her there and get her there fast.
“I think the last time I spoke to her she was about 556, 558. She misses us, she don’t know nobody up there [in Ohio], she’s making friends, but she don’t see Gage.
“I don’t think she’s dating anybody. I think Tony [in her TikTok videos] is just a friend. Usually, I speak to her daily, he [Gage] loves talking to her, we FaceTime.
“Sometimes she likes it in rehab, sometimes she don’t. Most of the facilities are locked down because of COVID and stuff, so she can’t go to all the wings. She can go to her room, therapy, and the cafeteria. And that’s about it.”
Amy said there was a reason the crew chose a rehab facility so far away from their hometown.
“Because Tammy’s a b**** and nobody else likes her round here,” she laughed.
“She was in rehabs around here before, and she’d always be mean to people.
“She never hit them or anything, but she was mean. And some of them just don’t have the equipment to handle her size.
“Actually, the crew found that one [in Ohio]. They did pay last time, but this time they’re not paying.”
Asked how her relationship is with Tammy after fans saw them argue at times during the show, she said: “The same, we’re still sisters regardless, if we argue, if we fight, next couple days, we’re gonna be good again.”
But she admits she has had to show some tough love after Tammy almost died in a medically-induced coma due to her weight.
“We’ve been worried she could die since we were younger, she’s the biggest one out of the whole family,” she said.
She said she was unimpressed by her partying before she went into rehab and hopes she’ll get surgery after she got a gastric bypass some years ago, helping her to lose the pounds.
“I didn’t like it at all, they came to her, family friends,” Amy said about her hanging out with a ‘bad crowd’.
“They’re all young, the youngest was like 21, and she would buy them alcohol and stuff. I said they should be buying their own alcohol.
“She hasn’t had a drink since maybe November, I’m proud of her. All I do is cigarettes, she was smoking, and drinking, smoking weed, and vaping.”
Amy said Tammy never had any motivation to lose weight, whereas she had her son Gage and wanted to be fit enough to run after after him as he got older.
“I had the motivation, he [Gage] was my motivation,” she told The Sun. “We’ve been trying to get her to lose weight since we were young.
“She hasn’t had nothing to live for, but now I gave her a nephew maybe that will help her.”
Meanwhile, Amy says she may QUIT the show 1000-Lb Sisters if producers don’t cut her hours down, as she’s struggling to juggle her TV career with motherhood.
She claims she is not contracted for Season 4 of the popular reality show and is waiting for the network to get in touch to start negotiations.
Amy told The Sun: “I’ve been on the show for three years. At first, it was easy but now that I have Gage it’s like, he doesn’t want me out of his sight.
“I feel like I’m being a bad mom when I’m at work. He’s always at granny’s when we’re filming and stuff. I feel like I’m losing valuable time.
“I don’t really want to do another season because I’m pregnant, it’s just a lot. If they cut down my hours I’ll be probably fine.
“But last season I was working every day for weeks, plus renovating a house, plus Gage, plus Tammy, plus my mom. It was just a lot last year and I can’t do it.
“I can’t discuss how much I get paid, but that’s my main job and posting videos on YouTube.”
