Woman Starves Herself To Just One Meal A Week So That Her 6 Cats Don’t Go Hungry (Watch Video)
A British woman has said that the cost of caring for her six pet cats caused her to resolve to starve herself.
Yasemn Kaptan, 46, claims that she only has one meal each week that consists of salad and barbecued veggies like peppers and onions.
Yasemn from Tottenham in north London, UK, claimed she had shed five stone over the past year and drinks mint tea for breakfast, lunch, and supper to fight off hunger.
Yasemn said: ‘I don’t have any money to spare – but I can’t let the cats go.
‘They have grown up with us. I have had them since they were little babies.
‘I paid a lot of money to have them, they are at the end of their life. it really isn’t fair to let them go.
‘If I eat it has to be something soft like yoghurt or vegetables. I cry every other day, I am trying to be happy with myself but I am down and tired.
‘Some weeks I am not eating properly at all and I just have fluids to keep me going.’
Yasemn got the cats when she worked as a personal shopper and could ‘comfortably’ afford it, but said she had to leave her job last year after being diagnosed with osteoporosis.
She receives £400 monthly disability benefit due to her osteoporosis, and this goes towards her rent and bills.
Yasemn also gets a £69 stay-at-home carer allowance a week to look after her partner Erdinc Hassain, 46, who has multiple sclerosis. She said she spends £60 of the money on the cats.
‘When I get my carer’s allowance it goes on cat litter, cat food, biscuits and special milk, it takes up all my money. I can only just about pay my phone bill,’ she said.
‘My partner is worried about me but I have got used to it by now. I will be okay, things will get better.
‘There is nothing I can do, I will not get rid of my cats. I have had them for 17 years, they are my little babies they keep me going.’