Or so this mother-daughter combo seems to think:
A mother and daughter who get £34,000 a year 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 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. 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.”
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Ms Manzur said her and her daughter have been the victims of cruel comments from strangers. She said: “We attract quite a bit of attention when we pop to the shops on our matching scooters. “A man once compared us to a herd of elephants. Another rolled down his car window, called us “fatsos” and said, ‘Get off and walk’. We just ignore them. We can’t change the way we were born.”