‘1000-lb Sisters’ Amy Slaton’s Doctor Explains How Her Eye Surgery Will Improve Her Life [Exclusive] 

Amy Slaton is seeing the world in a whole new light after getting surgery to correct her lazy eye. 

In the March 3 episode of 1000-lb Sisters, the mom of two heads to the doctor to address her  strabismus, a condition she has lived with her entire life. 

Amy Slaton gets surgery to correct her lazy eye 

In a clip from the episode shared with TMZ,  Dr. Sean P. Donahue, M.D., Ph.D. a Nashville-based pediatric ophthalmologist, explains how he’ll adjust Amy’s eyes while she’s under anesthesia. 

“We’re going to make an incision in the skin of the eye, up on the left side, and we’ll loosen the outside muscle,” he explains to the film crew. “We’ll then rotate the eye into the position we want it to be,” he added. “And then we’ll go over to the other side.

“The only thing we have to correct on the right eye is that overelevation,” he continued. “We’re going to correct the muscle that’s causing those eyes to drift out when she looks up and have less outward drift when she looks down.”

‘1000-lb Sisters’ star’s doctor says Amy’s surgery will ‘improve her well-being’ 

Amy has lived with her lazy eye for years. Her recent surgery should improve her life for the better, Donahue told Showbiz Cheat Sheet. 

Strabismus is a “misalignment of the eyes so that they are not both aimed forward,” he explained. The condition “prevents the brain from using the eyes together and patients with strabismus do not have depth perception or 3-D vision.”

But vision issues aren’t the only problem that come with having a lazy eye. 

“There are also significant psychosocial concerns when people do not have straight eyes for a long period of time,” he said. 

In a previous episode of 1000-lb Sisters Season 8, Amy said her lazy eye was her “biggest insecurity” and that she was “more self-conscious” about it than her weight. 

In Amy’s case, a lazy eye is not her only vision issue. She is also legally blind in one eye because of an ocular toxoplasmosis infection as a child. 

“[The surgery] may or may not improve depth perception in her case since one eye has poor vision,” her surgeon shared. “However it will improve her social interactions and sense of well-being.”

Donahue said that he hopes the Amy’s willingness to share her story on 1000-lb Sisters might encourage other people with with strabismus to talk to their doctors. 

“People who have eye misalignment or double vision can have it successfully treated,” he said. “Often times they may have been told that surgery is not an option and often times that is incorrect.”

When Amy learned that surgery was an option for her, she was stunned – and overjoyed. 

“Growing up, that’s the only thing on my body I could not change,” she said in the show’s February 17 episode. “That was the only thing I couldn’t see myself pretty because of that. And now I can correct it, and now I feel like I’m gonna be beautiful one day. Like, I can finally be beautiful.”

1000-lb Sisters airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on TLC. Episodes stream on HBO Max. 

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