I mentioned this story on this Saturday’s GrokTALK! during our WTF time – this was the runner up: ‘We’d rather be fat on benefits than thin and working’
Mother and daughter weigh a total of 43 stone and get £34k a year handouts, but refuse to diet.
A mother and daughter who get £34,000 a year [around $60K] in handouts because they are too fat to work say they’d rather be happy and on benefits than depressed and thin. Janice and Amber Manzur weigh a total of 43 stone [602 lbs] and are so overweight they have to use mobility scooters to get around. But both women refuse to diet and mother-of-two Ms Manzur, 44, insists: “I’d rather my daughter live life on benefits being fat and happy than depressed and thin.” Ms Manzur lives in a three-bedroom house that has been customised by the council to accommodate her disability and drives a Fiat Quibo disability car worth around £15,000. Ms Manzur said: “There’s no point in dieting, it doesn’t make a difference.”
Yeah, I’d love to live at someone else’s expense, too, but I actually have some level of earned self-esteem and self-worth. And yes, you can’t lose weight if you’ve already given up.
“I’ve always been big and I’m too fat to work, so I have a genuine disability. I should be miserable but I’m happy. I know this is the way I’m meant to be. “I can’t beat myself up that Amber is fat too. “It’s just the way we are built and I’ll never encourage her to diet as it made me so unhappy. “Amber has never stepped foot in the gym and never will. “It won’t change her weight as she is born to be fat.” Ms Manzur admits she eats junk food or ready-made meals because it said: “It costs £1 for a pasta ready meal, so why bother spending money on ingredients to cook?
Giving up is SUCH a wonderful way to go through life.
