It was just after a health problem in 2014 that she decided to start vlogging with Amy.
“I had just gotten out of the hospital,” Tammy remembers. People in 2023. “I found out I had a blood clot in my right lung and I was bored. I was just sitting there watching YouTube videos. I was like, ‘Why not? We’re funny, whatever. Why can’t we do it too?’ So I pitched the idea to him, and here we are.”
Their journey to the small screen began when their videos caught the attention of TLC executives.
“At first they wanted a big YouTuber weight loss show,” Amy told the magazine, “and then they saw us and they were like, ‘No, these two need their own show.'”
1000lb Sisters premiered on January 1, 2020. And over the past seven seasons, Tammy, Amy and their siblings have all undergone dramatic weight loss transformations.
At her peak, Tammy said Peopleshe weighed 725 pounds. But after attending a rehab center, changing her lifestyle and undergoing bariatric surgery in 2022, she lost more than 500 pounds.
