It was right after a health scare in 2014 that she decided to start vlogging with Amy.
“I had just got out of the hospital,” Tammy recalled to 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 her, and here we are.”
Their journey to the small screen began when their videos caught the attention of execs at TLC.
“At first, they wanted a big YouTuber weight loss show,” Amy told the magazine, “and then they’d seen us and they were like, ‘No, these two need their own show.'”
1000-lb Sisters premiered on Jan. 1, 2020. And for the past seven seasons, Tammy, Amy and their siblings have all undergone dramatic weight loss transformations.
At her heaviest, Tammy told People, she was 725 pounds. But after attending a rehabilitation center, making changes to her lifestyle and undergoing bariatric surgery in 2022, she’s lost more than 500 pounds.