Filipina domestic helper Thelma Oyasan Gawidan lost 20kg in the 15 months she worked for her Singaporean employers.
Chong Sui Foon and her husband Lim Choon Hoong had both been found guilty of starving their 40-year-old maid, who was fed "only instant noodles twice a day," forced "to sleep odd hours in a storeroom," and was only allowed to take a shower "once or twice a week."
Gawidan suffered in the household for more than a year before managing to escape their Orchard Road home in April 2014. She found help from non-profit organisation HOME, were she revealed the strict diet regimen she underwent, including getting minuscule portions of tomato, cucumber and meat the size of her small finger — if she was lucky.