A 31-year-old woman has spoken out and claimed her dominant husband held her on a strict diet for 12 years because he wanted a “size zero wife.
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As Catherine Hartley from Perceton, Scotland, revealed, her husband-of-12-years would get upset with her whenever she tried to eat because he wanted her to fit in children’s clothes.
According to the mother-of-one, she met Matthew Hartley when he was 25 and she was just 15. He allegedly persuaded her into dating him by buying her alcohol and cigarettes.
Three years later, when Catherine turned 18, the two tied the knot and Matthew took control of all aspects of the girl’s life.
“He said I was fat so he put me on a diet. He wanted a size 0 wife,” the woman claimed in an interview with Daily Record, saying her husband warned her he didn’t want a fat wife.
“I ended up so thin that when I lay down on the mattress my bones hurt. In the end, I was wearing a girl’s age-seven clothes,” she added, claiming she weighed a mere 32 kilograms (70 pounds) at her lowest point.
As Catherine went on, she described the abuse going on behind closed doors for 12 years. Her husband would grab her by the neck and throw her across the room. He also installed surveillance in all rooms of their home in an attempt to keep an eye on her at all times.
Fortunately for the woman, she separated from the abusive husband in 2017 before finalizing their divorce in 2019.
She also reported him to the police which led the 42-year-old to admit to assaulting his wife as well as sexually assaulting another woman.
Despite pleading guilty, the man didn’t receive a custodial sentence, a decision that greatly upset Catherine as she was living under his shadow for 12 years.
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