New two-part documentary series Big & Little debuts tonight on TLC, follows two morbidly obese people with dwarfism, Chuck Love and Ayanna Brown, as they try to lose weight. In tonight’s first episode we get introduced to the pair and their weight-loss coach Allison Warrell, who is also a little person. Warrell’s job is to motivate them and educate them about exercise and eating habits. Ready to get his life in gear, 30-year-old Chuck is an aspiring radio host who weighed 164-lb at 3’6″ and desperately wants to reboot his entire existence. Chuck lives at home, has no job and no romantic...read more...
- 5/24/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
At age 35, Allison Warrell was 40 lbs. overweight at only 3’11”, and knew she needed to make a change before her weight started taking a dangerous toll on her body.
“I started my journey because at that point I was still surgery-free,” Warrell, now 40, tells People. “It’s very common for little people to have surgery, and the heavier we are, the worse it is on our bodies.”
Warrell began working out with a trainer who developed a program catered to her, and thanks to her hard work and dedication she dropped 20 percent of her body fat and now competes professionally as a women’s physique bodybuilder.
“I started my journey because at that point I was still surgery-free,” Warrell, now 40, tells People. “It’s very common for little people to have surgery, and the heavier we are, the worse it is on our bodies.”
Warrell began working out with a trainer who developed a program catered to her, and thanks to her hard work and dedication she dropped 20 percent of her body fat and now competes professionally as a women’s physique bodybuilder.
- 5/24/2017
- by Gabrielle Olya
- PEOPLE.com
A two-part TLC docu-series will follow the journeys of two morbidly obese little people as they spend nine months trying to transform their bodies.
One of the people looking to make a change is Ayanna Brown, who weighed 215 lbs. at 3’9″ at the beginning of her journey.
“When I look in the mirror I think, ‘Oh my God, I’m so fat,’ ” Brown, 23, says in this exclusive sneak peek of Big & Little, which premieres Wednesday night.
The teaser explains that approximately 1 in 40,000 children is born with dwarfism, many of whom go on to experience extreme obesity.
“It’s like our height...
One of the people looking to make a change is Ayanna Brown, who weighed 215 lbs. at 3’9″ at the beginning of her journey.
“When I look in the mirror I think, ‘Oh my God, I’m so fat,’ ” Brown, 23, says in this exclusive sneak peek of Big & Little, which premieres Wednesday night.
The teaser explains that approximately 1 in 40,000 children is born with dwarfism, many of whom go on to experience extreme obesity.
“It’s like our height...
- 5/23/2017
- by Gabrielle Olya
- PEOPLE.com
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