1000-Lb Sisters star Tammy Slaton is off the market more than one year after the death of her husband, Caleb Willingham.
“There’s something I haven’t told my family. Amy [Slaton]‘s not the only one that’s been seeing somebody new. So have I,” Tammy, 38, said in People’s clip of the TLC show’s season 7 premiere. “I have been seeing someone for the past couple months and it’s going pretty well.”
In the sneak peak, Tammy snuck out of the house and got in her car — as brother Chris Combs wondered where she went.
“I think I want to approach this relationship different than I have in the past, so I haven’t told my family because my family’s gonna have something to say about it,” she said. “You know, I think my family probably has more opinions than the world has assholes because they be farting so much.”
Tammy shared that this is her first relationship since her husband’s death, noting that the person she is dating is a woman.
“A few years ago I came out as pansexual but after Caleb passing, I just don’t want to be with men anymore,” she said. “I don’t know how my family is going to react when I tell them I’m seeing a woman.”
Tammy previously clarified her sexuality in a January 2024 TikTok video while responding to a user wondering whether she is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.
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“I’m a supporter of everybody,” Tammy said. “Well, I was saying I was pansexual but I kinda stopped messing with guys after my husband passed. So, I’m, like, a lesbian. Love is love. Everybody deserves love whether they’re gay, straight, trans, pan, bi, nonbinary [or] whatever. I’m just a lover.”
Tammy met Willingham in 2021 at a rehab facility. The pair tied the knot one year later, with Tammy calling their nuptials “the best day” of their lives.
“There was so much love in the room,” she gushed to E! News in 2023. “I’m thankful that so many family members and our family from the rehab were able to come. … When we had our first kiss he leaned forward and hit the control switch and drove right into me knocking me back into my wheelchair!”
Willingham died later that year at the age of 40. “Rip sweet angel you will forever be missed and loved so much,” Tammy wrote via Instagram in July 2023. “Thank you Caleb for showing me real love and happiness ❤️❤️.”
1000-Lb. Sisters season 7 premiere airs on TLC Tuesday, April 15 at 9 p.m. ET.
