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Twenty years after her father died as the result of a botched weight-loss surgery, Carrie is on the brink of eating herself to death; she must face the fear and grief of losing her father and end a cycle of toxic behavior with her husband, Chris.

Thederick has become housebound from eating and only goes outside to greet the ice cream man; after a recent hospital scare, it's finally clicked that if Dr. Now's program doesn't work for him, then nothing will.

Cindy is resistant to change and spends years creating a world that makes her feel safe; when her friend notices Cindy's health declining rapidly due to her size, she pushes Cindy to move to Houston and see Dr. Now.

Melissa has isolated herself at home and lost many friends to avoid feeling the shame of what her food addiction has done to her body; now, the only way to get her life back is to leave it behind to start a new one with Dr. Now's help in Houston.

Kenae' is already big before her weight gain takes off after the death of her beloved mother; refusing to deal with the pain, Kenae' turns to food to fill the void.

Krystal begins overeating to shield herself with a protective layer of obesity after suffering years of abuse; once a means of protection, her pathological eating now threatens to destroy her life if she doesn't get help.

Kenae' is already big before her weight gain takes off after the death of her beloved mother; refusing to deal with the pain, Kenae' turns to food to fill the void.

Krystal begins overeating to shield herself with a protective layer of obesity after suffering years of abuse; once a means of protection, her pathological eating now threatens to destroy her life if she doesn't get help.

Melissa has isolated herself at home and lost many friends to avoid feeling the shame of what her food addiction has done to her body; now, the only way to get her life back is to leave it behind to start a new one with Dr. Now's help in Houston.

A gunman opens fire outside a strip club; a street performer's magic trick goes horribly wrong; BMX superstar T.J. Lavin's routine jump has a shocking outcome.

A maintenance worker falls from an iconic hotel sign; a rat bite has horrifying implications for its trainer and a plane crashes on a residential street.

A shootout leaves a police officer clinging to life; a cowboy and cupid help a she-devil in distress; a zip-line guide falls 80 feet to the canyon floor.

Eight women cope with their incarceration in Gwinnett County Jail; one woman prepares for her release.

Nine women try to cope with their incarceration; a woman awaits trial for five years.

A young mother faces the idea of seeing her son through visitation glass; an inmate promises not to return but finds herself back in jail; a desperate inmate only needs a small amount of money to get released.

A current inmate learns that her son has died in a car crash; an inmate's first Mother's Day behind bars; female inmate almost nine months pregnant.

The emergency room at Highland Hospital in Oakland, Calif., treats a large population of people struggling with poverty and substance abuse.

Doctors at the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center treat a teenager who collided with a tractor-trailer; a stabbing victim.

Denver Health Medical Center's trauma unit, which handled the Columbine High School shooting victims, regularly treats accident victims.

How Minnesota's oldest emergency room at the Hennepin County Medical Center has kept up with the times.

A successful businesswoman suddenly seems to become possessed by demons; a young college student battles monstrous pain when she grows fingernails out of her hair follicles.

A mother becomes a recluse when every sound becomes deafeningly loud; a man's career is in jeopardy when he gets drunk without touching a drop of alcohol.

A dad is accused of child abuse when doctors discover his baby has broken bones; a vibrant teenage girl is unable to eat and is wasting away before her mother's eyes.

Charmaine from Trinidad suffers from one of the most extreme cases of neurofibromatosis ever recorded; tumors cover every inch of her body and obstruct her ability to breathe and swallow; without surgery, these growing tumors threaten her life.

Thirty-year-old Alexandra has a 20-pound, sagging tumor that starts at the back of her neck and now reaches below her waist; as the tumor on Claudia's backside continues to grow, so does the urgency for surgeons to remove it.

Despite his family's pleas, Marlow explores a high-risk surgery to remove a facial tumor; Amy has let the tumor on her back grow for more than 17 years; after finally making the decision to remove it, she learns that now it might be too late.

A massive tumor on Tim's neck continues to grow at an alarming rate, but doctors fear that removing it could leave him paralyzed.

Charmaine from Trinidad suffers from one of the most extreme cases of neurofibromatosis ever recorded; tumors cover every inch of her body and obstruct her ability to breathe and swallow; without surgery, these growing tumors threaten her life.

Thirty-year-old Alexandra has a 20-pound, sagging tumor that starts at the back of her neck and now reaches below her waist; as the tumor on Claudia's backside continues to grow, so does the urgency for surgeons to remove it.

Despite his family's pleas, Marlow explores a high-risk surgery to remove a facial tumor; Amy has let the tumor on her back grow for more than 17 years; after finally making the decision to remove it, she learns that now it might be too late.

A massive tumor on Tim's neck continues to grow at an alarming rate, but doctors fear that removing it could leave him paralyzed.

A mother becomes a recluse when every sound becomes deafeningly loud; a man's career is in jeopardy when he gets drunk without touching a drop of alcohol.

A dad is accused of child abuse when doctors discover his baby has broken bones; a vibrant teenage girl is unable to eat and is wasting away before her mother's eyes.

Getting too hot can be fatal for twins Andrew and Brandon, who meet Josh, a fellow sufferer of Ectodermal Dysplasia.

Tiffany and Yajaira have Jarcho Levin Syndrome, which malformed their ribs and spines during infancy.

Born with Goldenhar Syndrome, Austin and Elena have been bullied for looking different, and feel isolated from other kids.

A young boy struggles to breathe.

A child's brain contains a strange mass; doctors fear the worst until a radiologist makes an observation.

A man experiences vomiting, heart palpitations, weakness and general malaise.

After Thomas Hicks sold over 200 babies illegally in the 1950s and 1960s, Jane Blasio works to reunite the stolen babies with biological families while trying to unearth secrets about Hicks himself.

Jane discovers a suspicious pattern of babies with extremely low birth weights coming out of the clinic; Chris finds out that Dr. Hicks may have hidden birth records in his mausoleum; Diane hopes to meet her biological father.

Jane and Lisa meet the first Hicks baby, Stephen Dilbeck; Chris and Sallie open the mausoleum in search of birth records rumored to be inside as they work on getting approval of an exhumation.

A woman's world was shaken when she discovered she was adopted at 25, and goes onto learn more dramatic revelations; a mother is in a race against time to find her son who she placed for adoption 46 years ago.

A woman searches for her beloved sister who she tried to adopt herself years ago; after a life of longing, a couple is desperate to find the son they placed for adoption fifty years ago when they were teens.

A man searches for his birth mother, whose disappearance when he was 5 years old has haunted him for his entire life; a woman hoping to meet a member of her biological family faces certain realities about her true past.

A woman searches for her brother, hoping to fulfill a promise she made to her late mother, and discovers a 40-year-old secret about her parents' past; a woman consumed by a lifelong search for her mom finds hope with a new DNA connection.

A man seeking redemption from his troubled past longs to reunite with the grown son he only got to hold for a few minutes; 46 years after placing her daughter up for adoption, a woman still carries the feeling of guilt for being an unwed mother.

Phyllis and Patty aren't just identical twins, they are identical hoarders as well.

Lalie and her children suffer from mold, mice and flea infestations due to their upstairs neighbor and landlord, Denise, who is a massive hoarder.

Beverly's clutter has filled up her entire home and her three beloved dogs have helped make the space completely unlivable.

Terry and Bill seem to be the perfect couple; the murder of her daughter has led Nancy to hoard.

Phyllis and Patty aren't just identical twins, they are identical hoarders as well.