[Whitfield:] All right, so online dating, that's not new, but there is a new twist on it. Our Lisa Ling found couples who use a website to negotiate a relationship both personal and financial. Take a look at a clip from Lisa's new show, "This is Life."
[Lisa Ling, Cnn Host, "this Is Life":] Taylor grew up in a traditional middle class family. But in her early 20s she realized her tastes were anything but ordinary.
[Unidentified Female:] When I started dating guys, they wanted to go to maybe a fast food burger joint or something. I wanted to go out and experience a different lifestyle. So naturally, I ventured out.
[Ling:] Taylor embraced the sugar lifestyle when she was just 22. And this is rich, her sugar daddy of nearly a decade.
[Unidentified Male:] How you doing, you sexy thing? Give me a hug. How you doing?
[Unidentified Female:] I'm good.
[Unidentified Male:] Good seeing you.
[Unidentified Female:] You going to get in?
[Unidentified Male:] I'm going to get in.
[Unidentified Female:] Let's ride.
[Ling:] Sugar relationships can last a long time. Taylor's been in hers for 10 years. She says that her sugar daddy is teaching her a lot of really important things, like golf.
[Unidentified Male:] Outstanding!
[Unidentified Female:] Good shot.
[Unidentified Male:] Outstanding.
[Unidentified Female:] When I met Rich, it was just effortless.
[Unidentified Male:] All right, Taylor, don't you laugh. We just hit it off.
[Unidentified Female:] That was a good shot.
[Unidentified Male:] Thank you. I don't want to use the term "love at first sight," but something along those lines.
[Ling:] Can I ask you how old you are?
[Unidentified Female:] I'm 32.
[Unidentified Male:] I'm 69.
[Ling:] If you forgive me for saying, there are a lot of people who might say, what a dirty old man?
[Unidentified Male:] I am a dirty old man. All men are dirty old men. Have you ever met one yet that didn't like to flirt?
[Ling:] Actually, no.
[Unidentified Male:] OK, I rest my case.
[Whitfield:] Oh, boy. I talked with Lisa Ling this week about the couple in the piece you just saw, and I asked her whether their family members know about this relationship.
[Ling:] In this particular relationship, the man wasn't married and has never been married. However, there are lots of sugar daddies, lots of sugar daddies, even who are on these websites, who are married and are looking for a younger woman to be their companions. And whatever goes along with that, with you know, again is negotiated. With regard to Taylor and Rich, one of the couples that we profiled, he's close to 70 and she's in her 30s. Their relationship is a little bit unique. They claim they have never had sex. And for Rich, Taylor allows him to feel youthful and vigorous, and she provides for him something that he was really missing in his life. And it's just a different take on the sugar daddy relationship that I myself was surprised by.
[Whitfield:] It sounds like a friendship.
[Ling:] Well, it's a mentorship, too. And that's another thing a lot of the young women expressed the need for. In this challenged economy they really are seeking these older men for mentorship and possible opportunities to advance their careers.
[Whitfield:] And how do they hook up?
[Ling:] They also hooked up on a website. They've been together for a long time, but initially hooked up on a website.
[Whitfield:] OK, explore this world on the premiere episode of "This is Life with Lisa Ling" airing tomorrow night, 10:00 p.m. Eastern and pacific right here on CNN.
[Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Cnn Chief Medical Correspondent:] At over 400 pounds, Sia Figiel was revered in her Samoan cultural.
[Sia Figiel, Cnn Fit Nation Triathlete:] I was considered by people as a woman of strength. But there is no strength in pain and hurt and living with uncontrolled diabetes.
[Gupta:] Complications from her diabetes even forced her to have all of her teeth removed.
[Figiel:] It was on that same day that I decided to be an activist against obesity and diabetes.
[Gupta:] Already an acclaimed author, she used her platform to become a crusader, speaking to schoolchildren and parents about the dangers of obesity. To jump-start her own weight loss, she joined the 2014 CNN Fit Nation team and began training for the Nautica Malibu Triathlon. In eight months, she not only lost weight by swimming, biking, and running, she also gained a lot of confidence. On September 14th, she became a triathlete.
[Figiel:] I just feel like I'm a new person. I feel like I've been rebirthed, I've been baptized.
[Gupta:] Not even a nasty bike crash could keep her from reaching the finish line.
[Figiel:] And they wanted to take me in the emergency vehicle, but I said, I can't do that! My family's out there, my team's out there! I cannot ride in a car! I came to do a race!
[Gupta:] She finished the race with her team by her side.
[Figiel:] My team was there. I mean, they were there and they brought me in.
[Gupta:] More than 100 pounds lighter now, she's not ready to stop.
[Figiel:] I'll do it again.
[Gupta:] Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Malibu.