Inside Samantha's Struggle With Overeating

"I eat for people," Samantha Mason told Hollywood Life in December 2020. "I just eat what I want and they pay for it, as long as I film it," she said, explaining her career as a fetish model. Nevertheless, Mason knew she had to stop enabling her own eating disorder. "There's no question that this job has been unhealthy for me because I found the perfect community to reinforce my worst habits. I last weighed in 6 months ago legitimately, and I was at 811 pounds," she admitted.

Mason revealed on her episode of My 600-lb Life that she began overeating at an early age to cope with a toxic childhood home. After her parents divorced due to her father's alcoholism driving him toward abuse of her mother, Mason used food for comfort and weighed 150 pounds by age seven. According to Mason, things worsened when her mother attended nursing school and sent Mason to live with her father and stepmother. There, her guardians attempted to restrict her food intake, which only caused Mason to rebel by overeating. "I didn't want to be told what to eat," she explained in the episode.

Shortly after contacting Dr. Nowzaradan, Mason had gained weight due to complications with her kidney that the hospital could neither diagnose nor operate on. Hopefully, Dr. Now was able to steer Mason down a path of weight loss and maintenance that lasts.

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