Fitness fanatic lashes out at 335lb woman in Living With the Enemy

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Plus-size model Kristy Love and Michel Marley, 120lbs, live together for a week in new Lifetime series Living With the Enemy
Kristy describes herself as a 'big, beautiful woman', while Michel is obsessed with nutrition and fitness
The women butt heads throughout the episode, in which Michel makes rude remarks about Kristy’s weight and its impact on her health

Published: 15:42 EST, 9 July 2015 | Updated: 16:01 EST, 9 July 2015

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Opposites don't always attract - in fact, sometimes, their arguments can be explosive.

Such was the case for plus-size model and blogger Kristy Love, a 335lb woman best known for her large 48NN breasts, and fitness fanatic and healthy lifestyle advocate Michel Marley when they were thrown together as part of a new reality series, which pits two total opposites against one another, while forcing them to live in the same house for eight days.

In the series premiere of Lifetime’s Living With the Enemy, which airs tonight at 10pm, Michel and Kristy spend an entire week of co-habitation butting heads over which body type - slim or big - is best, with both fighting tooth and nail in order to prove that their opinion is the one that matters.

Frenemy alert: Kristy Love (left) and Michel Marley (right) live together for eight days in the premiere episode of the new show Living with the Enemy

At 5'5" and 120lbs, fitness and nutrition-obsessed Michel doesn't just look different than 5'3" Kristy, who weighs 335lbs, the two also have completely different philosophies.

While Kristy, 36, describes herself as a 'big, beautiful woman', Michel is clearly repulsed by the overweight woman - and her equally large friends.

'I'm going to put her fat a** in her place," Michel says in a preview for the show. 'I'm not taking any of her excuses.'

When they first meet, Michel walks into a bar where she sees and Kristy and her girlfriends - and she looks absolutely terrified at the mere prospect of approaching the group, let alone the idea of living with one of them.

'Lord help me, because I've never seen so many fat people at one time,' Michel says in a clip from the show before almost immediately becoming contentious, telling Kristy that one of her friends could barely walk through a narrow pathway in the restaurant.

Concerned: Michel (pictured) is obsessed with fitness and nutrition and tries to show Kristy that being overweight is bad for her health

A spoonful of sugar: Michel's message doesn't always come through clearly, and she is often quite rude to Kristy and her friends

'Don't you think since all of you are big that you're enabling each other?' she asks the group. 'If you had a thin friend like me, I would tell you more about being healthy.'

One of the women tells her: 'Only I can say whether I'm beautiful or not.'

'I didn't say you weren't beautiful - in the face,' Michel responds, eliciting dirty looks from everyone around her.

Michel's less-than-accepting attitude put Kristy off from the start, which set the pair up for an interesting eight days - the first of which would be spent at Michel's house, and the second at Kristy's.

'Michel came in fat-shaming,' says Kristy. 'She really needs to watch her mouth... My friends don't deserve to be bullied that way.'

'I was out of my element,' Michel later explained in an interview with People. 'They all seemed to have the same attitude as she had. They were making light of the whole situation. It's about health for me.'

Sporty: Michel (pictured) takes Kristy rock climbing to show her the kinds of things she is missing out on

Sedentary: Kristy (pictured) is amused - and explains that she can't fit in the rock climbing harness because it isn't made for women her size

But Kristy argued that Michel wasn't making it clear that she was worried about her health - she was just fat-shaming.

'You can make your point without name-calling,' she told People. 'I made my point and I didn't call her any names. I showed her respect, but it's something about when people deal with fat people or large people, whenever you're having a disagreement with someone, the first thing that comes out of their mouths is the name-calling.'

In another clip from the chop, Michel tries to show Kristy how her weight is limiting her by taking her rock climbing

'I think Kristy has to give up on a lot of activities because her size,' she explains, as the video shows Michel scaling a wall while Kristy sits and looks bored.

Friendly advice? Though Michel claims she is not fat-shaming, she tells Kristy and her friends that they would be better off having a 'thin friend' like her

'Society puts limits on someone my size,' Kristy corrects her, noting that a lot of things aren't made for people her size - like harasses for rock climbing. 'Size discrimination is a problem in the United States of America.'

Michel, however, argues that making things for bigger people will only enable healthy behavior, creating an even worse obesity problem in the country.

'Making things bigger to accommodate fat people - I don't think that should happen because that's just encouraging people like Kristy to get fatter and fatter,' she says.

'I'm not fat-shaming in any way. It's just like a tough love with your children,' Michel went on to explain in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

TV star: Earlier this year, Kristy appeared on a TLC reality show in which she looked for love

Busty lady: On Strange Love, the 36-year-old discussed her size 48NN breasts and how she uses them as a massage therapist

This is not the first time that Kristy has highlighted her size on reality TV. In March, she appeared on the TLC show Strange Love to find a partner who would love her - and her 48NN breasts.

'I'm looking for true love,' she said on the show. 'Someone who I love, and who loves me. My boobies do not need to be alone, it's time for them to find a man.'

She also addressed her health, saying that doctors have told her that her weight leaves her at risk of developing high blood pressure and heart disease. But because those issues don't run in her family, Kristy said they didn't bother her.