Christine Haveford
Liz Evans knows she is in desperate need of help.
The morbidly obese woman weighs over 600lbs and is unable to stand up.
She suffers from painful lymphedema growths that hang from her legs.
Looking at the 35-year-old for the first time you may take a sharp inward breath. But behind her weight lies a tragic story.
Liz was born with one leg shorter than the other but was never able to fully fix the issue.
As a child, she was molested by a family friend and started to turn to food for comfort.
Her parents split up due to her father’s severe drug addition. For Liz the constant turmoil made her weight spiral out of control.
Soon she she was bed bound.
On Wednesday night’s episode of the TLC reality series My 600lb Life, Liz tried in vain to learn how to stand on her own.
Her aim was to have her lymphedema removed, but after a month in a rehab facility, she still struggles to stand.
‘It’s been really hard on me.’
‘They have been doing exercises with me, but I haven’t been able to stand just yet,’ she says in a preview clip shared by People.
‘I have been able to start to sit up and get to the edge of the bed, which I feel is good progress because that has been more than I have been able to do in a long time.’
‘But I know I need to stand to get my lymphedema surgery, so I’m trying every time to do it.’
‘And I just have so much weight on my body still. And the masses on my legs start to hang down and pull, making it even more painful. So this is just really, really hard.’
However, she insisted she was happy at the start of her childhood.
‘Some of my best memories as a child was going places with my dad,’ she explains.
‘We could be going to the corner store. I just wanted to be with him.’
Liz was left devastated when her father died two years ago.
She couldn’t attend his funeral because she was too large to fit in a car.
Liz was mercilessly teased her for walking with a limp. Her bad leg eventually developed crippling lymphedema.
Her biggest fear is that if she doesn’t turn her life around, her mother and aunt will have to put her into a nursing home.
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