My 600-Lb Life's Steven Assanti Talks TLC, Marriage, And His Difficult Relationship With His Brother

I've wanted to ask you about her because I was reading. People online were thinking that it was fake, and it's obviously not fake. How did that make you feel when people on the Internet or whatever were suspecting that you're lying about having this wife that you obviously adore?

Oh, I love her with all my heart and soul. Let's rewind to the beginning when I first met her, because I read an article when me and my wife, well girlfriend, but wife now, but girlfriend when I first met her. An article popped up, and it had said something that like, "Oh, he's being cat fished," and stuff like that. Me and her, we would just laugh, and we would be like, "Meow." And she'd be like, "Meow." Silly things like that, because I know she wasn't a catfish, but people would, people were really awful though to her, horrible things.

Did that really affect her? Because that's really tough to be bullied online on such a scale of national television.

I mean, it affected her, but she's not like me. She's not out there like me. She's a private person, but it did affect her. She'd get angry a lot, but eventually we just, we both disappeared for a while, but she's not an internet [person]. She's not out there like me. I love internet, and I like interviews and being put out there on a pedestal, and she's not. She's more of a private [person], but she's awesome.

How'd you guys meet?

We actually met, well, I was on YouTube Live. That's how it all started. There was other people in there. She was in there, and I noticed that she was typing all these things to me. It's so weird, I don't understand how it happened, but eventually as the chat went on, whatever, I kind of only noticed her comments and nobody else's.

There was a ton of people in there. It's like nobody else mattered but what she was saying eventually, but I didn't give it up. I didn't give it up easy. I didn't. I was playing hard to get as a lot of guys do. I really didn't think anything of it actually. What am I saying? But no, because she's so beautiful. I didn't think I was going to get somebody like that. I didn't.

Aw.

She said, she messaged me and she's like, "Well, I guess you don't want a girlfriend." That's how it all started. And then it went on from there, and we met at a hotel. She came and picked me up from there, from Texas. It's a nice cutesy little love story.

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