90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way stars Jenny Slatten and Sumit Singh posted a video defending their decision to crowdfund her health treatments.Singh, 38, and Slatten, 68, got married in his native India five years ago on the TLC reality show and have been living there ever since.She revealed last month that she has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and a friend of the couple’s who runs their Facebook fan club then launched a GoFundMe to help cover her medical costs.ALS, which is known colloquially as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a rare and incurable degenerative condition that impairs the nervous system over time and causes the muscles to increasingly suffer from paralysis. About half of ALS patients have a life expectancy of three years after the initial onset of symptoms, though some can survive for decades. After receiving pushback for requesting donations, Singh shared an Instagram video with Slatten, whose speech had been noticeably slowed and slurred by her illness. 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way stars Jenny Slatten and Sumit Singh posted a video defending their decision to crowdfund her health treatmentsSlatten explained that she was likely to require a wheelchair in the near future, while Singh noted the couple do not have health insurance in India. Returning to America presented its own difficulties, they argued, in that Slatten had become unable to travel alone and obtaining a visa for Singh was ‘not easy.’Singh noted that his wife has daughters in America ‘but they have their own family, they have their own life,’ while Slatten insisted that she did not ‘want to be a burden.’By contrast, Singh maintained, a husband and wife can ‘rely’ on one another and he was committed to caring for her: ‘Whatever she need, I wanna do it.’He renewed his request for donations ‘because money will not gonna heal but it’s support and makes life easier, and we never asked for money before. We’ve been on the show, we struggled a lot many times but we never asked.’Singh then admonished viewers that ‘negativity is very bad for Jenny’ and asked that they not ‘say anything wrong and mean, at least this time.’ Slatten meanwhile pointed out that ‘as you can see’ her speech had slowed significantly, and she added she had a tendency to get ‘very tired’ and was ‘still walking’ but would need a ‘wheelchair probably soon.’Her daughters Christine and Dominique leapt into the comments to assure Slatten she was welcome to stay with them in America and would not be a ‘burden.’ Singh, 38, and Slatten, 68, married in his native India five years ago on the TLC reality show and have been living there ever since Slatten move from Palm Springs to India to marry her paramour, in the teeth of opposition from his family over the fact she was older than his mother ‘I would love to have you here and that’s what us children are for but I know you won’t be happy and you want to be with your husband, I get it 100% but I just wanted you to know don’t ever think you would be a burden in my life,’ wrote Dominique.Echoing her sentiments, Christine wrote: ‘Mom your NEVER a burden. I would do anything for you ANYTHING. We are in this together, your fight is our fight.’ Slatten and Singh shot to fame in 2019 on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way, a spin-off of the frequently controversial TLC reality series 90 Day Fiancé. The original show follows international couples scrambling to get married before the expiration of their K-1 visas, which are given to American citizens’ foreign fiancés. Meanwhile the Other Way spin-off centers on Americans who marry foreigners but decide to settle in their spouses’ home countries rather than bring them stateside.Singh and Slatten’s age gap romance has been a frequent target of critics during their years on the show, which continued to document their lives after their wedding. They met on Facebook, where he had been using a fake profile, at a time when Singh was still locked in an arranged marriage to another womanThey met on Facebook, where he had been using a fake profile, at a time when Singh was still locked in an arranged marriage to another woman. Slatten explained that ‘after about two months or so, we discovered that we started to develop feelings for each other, and once he figured out that we were developing feelings for each other, that’s when he told me: “I’m not really this person, I’m Sumit and I live in India,”‘ in an interview with the Desert Sun.Singh’s divorce from his first wife was covered on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way, which saw Slatten move from Palm Springs to India and marry her paramour, in the teeth of opposition from his family over the fact she was older than his mother. After Slatten announced her ALS diagnosis, her friend Penny Minincleri set up a GoFundMe that as of Tuesday had raised over $62,000 towards a goal of $250,000. ‘The primary purpose of this fundraiser,’ Minincleri wrote: ‘is to help cover Jenny’s growing medical expenses, including mobility equipment such as a walker and wheelchair, in-home nursing or caregiver support, and future hospital and treatment costs. Medication alone for 1 year will exceed $200,000.’The couple also hoped to raise enough money to enable Slatten’s daughters to ‘spend extended time in India so they can be by their mom’s side and support both Jenny and Sumit during this difficult journey.’