Amy Slaton is doing her greatest to maneuver on within the wake of her failed marriage.
Way again in October, the truth star finalized her divorce from Michael Halterman… her highschool sweetheart, her husband of 4 years and the daddy of her two younger sons.
Slaton continues to be residing in the home she previously shared along with her ex, nonetheless, and coping with the emotional ramifications when TLC cameras began filming 1000-Lb Sisters Season 6.
“I need to eliminate these couches as a result of they remind me of Michael,” Slaton tearfully tells her sister Amanda in a sneak peek of the upcoming season premiere shared by E! News.
Adds the mom of two: “I can’t stand them and I need to eliminate them.”
Amanda responds with phrases of encouragement, with an try to assist Amanda push via the ache.
“You’re going to should make new recollections right here that shoves the dangerous ones out,” she tells her sibling. “You don’t give your self sufficient credit score. You can do that.”
Earlier this yr, Amy opened up concerning the psychological toll every part concerning the finish of her relationship has taken on her.
“I signed the ultimate paperwork and that’s the top of an period,” Slaton informed her YouTube followers as she confirmed off copies of the divorce papers awhile again, including merely:
“I’m prepared for it to be over with.”
She continued right now:
“Even although the divorce was shorter than anticipated, like, lower than six months, it took a psychological toll on my physique and a bodily toll on me that I’m in search of assist for.
“Michael and me are sharing custody. I get the boys 70% of the time, Michael will get ‘em 30.”
The father or mother of a three-year previous and a two-year previous, Amy says on the premiere that she is aware of she has to take sure steps to really feel higher about herself.
Even in the event that they’re simply beauty for now.
“Right now, I’m simply going to concentrate on me, my psychological well being, my bodily well being, my outer look,” she says on air. “I’m prepared to vary up the hair shade. I simply need to get some new hair and eliminate all this extra pores and skin.”
Indeed, the method of pores and skin removing will apparently be a theme on Season 6 — each for Amy and for her sister, Tammy Slaton.
“I’m simply prepared to begin a brand new life,” says Amy, including that she feels “like a deflated balloon” however telling viewers in optimistic vogue:
“Eventually I’m going to get there. Eventually I’m going to discover a option to love myself.”
This episode was filmed lengthy earlier than Slaton was arrested for little one endangerment and drug possession; it’s unlikely the incident will even be included on new episodes of the sequence.
After Amy suffered a camel chew at Tennessee Safari Park in Alamo, Tennessee, authorities arrived to deal with her … and allegedly found unlawful marijuana and mushrooms, resulting in them taking her and Brian Scott Lovvorn into custody.
1000-Lb. Sisters Season 6 premieres October 8 on TLC.