Tammy Slaton has high hopes of getting behind the wheel.
On Sunday, 1000 lbs. Sisters The 37-year-old star posted a video on TikTok responding to a follower who said they’ve been following her weight loss journey since the beginning. The reality star was asked if she knows how to drive or wants to learn now that she’s lost enough weight to fit in the front seat of a car.
“I want to learn with time, but now, [my] the anxiety is just a little too much. A lot is happening, but in small steps,” she said. “I have a [driven] golf cart, but admittedly, it wasn’t going too fast. But yes, eventually I still want to drive a car.”
The fan’s question comes shortly after Tammy celebrated losing enough weight to sit in the front seat of a car and fasten her seatbelt, a milestone that was documented on 1000 lbs. Sisters.
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In PEOPLE’s exclusive clip from the TLC series, Tammy was at home with her brother Chris when he suggested she try sitting in the front seat of the car now that she’s lost so much weight.
“We’re going to try and put you in the front seat today, are you up for it?” Chris asks.
“Yes,” he reluctantly answers. “I’m just not sure I’ll be able to… fit between the door and the console.”
“The last time I sat in the front, it was probably 15 or 20 years ago. But I’m willing to give it a shot and see how it goes,” says Tammy.
Chris then jokes that he’s going to “squish” her in the car and that they’re good as long as the door can be closed. Tammy hesitantly goes outside and uses her walker to get to the car. Her attitude completely changes when she can sit in the front seat and fasten her seat belt.
“I did it!” she says with a big smile.
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Tammy Slaton before and after weight loss surgery.
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“When Tammy actually realizes that she’s in the chair and she’s ready and the door can be closed, you can tell that the little battle she just had made her feel great, because even at 16 she couldn’t sit in the front seat buckled in,” Chris says in the recording. “And now it’s like Gray Poupon, baby!”
“Sitting in the front seat, it’s like a whole new world,” adds Tammy. “You experience everything from a different point of view. Instead of being the second person who saw things, you are the first person,” she said with a laugh.
At the time, Tammy opened up about how her weight loss journey changed her life and other milestones she achieved after shedding 440 lbs, from her heaviest weight of 725 lbs. She had bariatric surgery in July 2022 and now weighs 285 lbs.
“One of the big changes I’ve gone through this year is probably small to most people,” she told PEOPLE. “But for me it was huge.”
“Just to be able to walk without a walker or to be pushed by a wheelchair, and there is no oxygen. I no longer even sleep with him at night,” she boasted. “Back then you could fit in a regular vehicle, the front seat, and then the belt buckle, and now you don’t need to use an extender. So just what seems insignificant to some people is huge to me.”
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