Woman Collects Friends' Breast Milk to Feed Daughter
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"Suddenly I stopped producing breast milk, so now I collect breast milk from my friends," explained Apple Melecia on last night's TLC special Extreme Cheapskates: Guide To Love. Extreme Cheapskates is a show about people who do all manner of insane and/or disgusting things for the sake of saving some coins and delighting in others' disgust. For the cameras, Apple also proudly made her own baby wipes with a roll of paper towels and dish detergent (that she would reuse), shopped for lingerie in a thrift store, and asked a beautician to put used extensions on her head since they were just going to be thrown out anyway.
But the crowning jewel of Apple's thrifty yet questionable life decisions was giving her daughter the fruit of other women's boobs. There was the milk of Amy (from her yoga class), Jessica (a co-worker), Brandi (a woman that she regularly meets for playdates), Jennifer's, and Megan's. Chloe, Apple's daughter, likes Jessica's milk the best, go figure.