Plenty of reality shows feature dramatic transformations, but few chronicle the intense metamorphoses
that are documented on the popular TLC program My 600-lb Life.
Here's the skinny on some of the most popular stars from the intense TLC reality show.
What a journey it's been for Milla Clark, who weighed in at a whopping 751 pounds in
her Season 4 episode of My 600-lb Life.
In addition to that, she was confined to her bed, and relied on her children to tend to
her most basic hygiene.
To top it off, she hadn't left her home in two years, and couldn't stand on her own two
feet.
"Every single day of my life is miserable."
Fortunately, Clark was able to get the help she desperately needed.
By the end of her episode, she was approved for weight loss surgery, having shed 150 pounds,
and made the effort to stand up.
"It's been maybe seven years since I've gone anywhere in a vehicle that wasn't an ambulance."
But that was just the beginning, as she continued to steadily make some seriously dramatic progress.
After multiple skin surgeries and a double knee replacement, Clark hit the 152 pound
mark, according to her follow-up episode.
That's a 600 pound difference, and a record breaker for the show!
When viewers first met Ashley Dunn Bratcher in her Season 4 episode of My 600-lb Life,
she relied on her young son Patrick to help her get things done around the house, like
laundry and cooking.
She was deeply ashamed, feeling like she should she be the one caring for him, and not the
other way around.
But at 725 pounds, she was extremely limited in her mobility.
Not content with her life, Bratcher made the brave decision to conquer her eating habits
and get weight loss surgery.
By the time her second follow-up episode rolled around, Bratcher celebrated a total weight
loss of 350 pounds, nearly half of her entire body weight.
"I can do so much more than just sit around the house waiting to eat."
With that loss came newfound freedom, too, which gave Patrick his childhood back.
"He can be a kid, and I can be a mom, and that's what I'm most thankful for."
Unlike many of the partnerships in My 600-lb Life, Bratcher and her husband didn't break
up when she decided to change her life.
In fact, they celebrated their ten-year wedding anniversary in 2019, according to a post on
her Facebook page.
Chay Guillory's Season 3 transformation on My 600-lb Life is arguably one of the most
dramatic of them all, and for more than one reason.
First, at the end of her debut episode, she had lost a total of 119 pounds, enough to
bring her under the 500 pound mark.
Then, by the end of her first follow-up episode, she was down to 379 pounds, showing continued
and consistent success on her weight loss journey.
But during that episode, she also dropped another bomb: Guillory came out as transgender,
and began to live her life as a woman.
"I live my entire life, 24/7, as a woman because that's what I am."
In Guillory's most recent follow-up episode, viewers learned that she was ready for skin
removal surgery.
Additionally, Guillory is getting closer to her 180-lb goal, at which point she will qualify
for gender confirmation surgery.
"Ta da."
And as if that wasn't enough amazing news, Guillory announced in an Instagram post that
she's engaged to her boyfriend, Patrick.
When Bettie Jo Elmore began her weight loss journey of Season 3 of My 600-lb Life, she
weighed 654 pounds.
But thanks to her commitment and hard work, she's a long way from where she was during
those dark times, despite the many obstacles that she's had to overcome.
Mainly, in Elmore's follow-up episode, she found out that she had a growth at the base
of her spine.
While that can normally be removed surgically, it wasn't an option for Elmore because she
was pregnant!
Knowing that surgery would put her baby at risk, Elmore opted to risk the paralysis that
the growth could cause her.
"I'll do whatever it takes to protect my child."
By her second follow-up episode, Elmore was on bedrest due to her high-risk pregnancy.
But fortunately, everything turned out well, as she and husband Josh welcomed a baby boy
in August 2016.
And according to a post on her Facebook page, she went back to back to working on weight
loss as a major goal in April 2017.
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