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The First of Its Kind
When the Roloff family was first approached by TLC with an offer to film a reality show about their family, Amy, the mother, jumped at the chance.
Realistic, everyday portrayals of short-statured people had never been widely circulated on television programming before, and Amy saw this as an excellent chance to reach people and communicate an issue that was important to her and which directly influenced her and her family.
Following a conversation with the rest of the family members, they accepted.