TLC’s ‘My 600-lb Life’ is a show that shows just how serious obesity can be, especially when it’s combined with additional factors like loneliness, borderline personality disorder, and a proclivity to use social media to compensate for a loss of self-esteem, like Ashley Taylor, a patient in season 8, did. But now that we haven’t seen her in a while, let’s see if she was able to overcome all of her fears with the help of Iranian-American surgeon Younan Nowzaradan, also known as Dr. Now, shall we?
Ashley Taylor: My 600-lb Life Journey
Ashley Taylor, a 24-year-old Texas native, weighed over 600 pounds and suffered with not only her food addiction but also a borderline personality problem when we met her at the start of her episode. Ashley’s weight and dietary difficulties began when she was three years old. As a result, by the time she was seven, she weighed over 200 pounds, which she doubled by the time she was fourteen, causing her to be harassed at school.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, her father abandoned their family when she was young, and a neighbor later raped her. As a result, Ashley turned to eating for comfort and developed a few other undesirable habits. Ashley also discussed her catfishing in her episode, confessing that she “has to modify everything from my meals to my profiles, and my catfishing to meet people.” She claims that the phony social media accounts were merely another source of comfort for her because she doesn’t have anyone to call her own.
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Ashley’s grandmother died when she was 20, and her mother now resides in a specialized epileptic facility. “I was just discovered impersonating someone on the internet, and I hope people understand that it was never my aim to hurt anyone,” she explained. “I would not have done it if I had known it would spiral out of control like this.”
