The premiere of TLC’sMy 600-lb.
Younan Nowzaradan(Dr. Now).
Samantha gives viewers an inside look at her life.
She lives alone in a second-floor apartment where she can barely get herself out of bed.
“It makes me feel appreciated,” she explains.
It turns out, Samantha’s past goes a long way toward explaining her extreme weight gain.
She began eating for comfort, and by age 7, she already weighed 150 pounds.
“I didn’t want to be told what to eat,” she explained.
She dropped out of school at 17, and almost immediately became pregnant by her then-boyfriend.
Then came the biggest heartache of all: Her father was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident.
“Food can fill me up and give me comfort,” she says in the debut episode.
“No matter how much I eat, it’s never enough.”
