Japanese woman shares shocking images from when she weighed just 37lbs before she was 'rescued from abusive grandfather who starved her'

The unnamed woman has claimed her grandfather refused to feed her and physically abused her when she was caught eating. Selfies taken just before the she was hospitalised some ten years ago, shows the woman, from Kyoto in Central Japan's Kansai region, looking shockingly thin with protruding hipbones and rib-cage, weighing just 2st 6lb - or 16.8kg. The woman, who is now in her 20s and of a healthy weight, revealed that she had been '10 minutes from death' when she was saved.