To be upset?

[Settlingdown]

I am very self conscious about my weight and today I finally plucked up the courage to wear my new 'size 12' summer dress to dp's family meal for somebody to tell me I look pregnant :( I now feel absolutely awful and she's bigger than me?!?!

[doyouknow]

Must be jealous of you ... Don't give a damn about such people

[sweetsummerlove]

jealousy. fuck her .


flowers

[Groovee]

I've had that. I just tell them I am fat. Soon shushes them. Well done at wearing a lovely dress.

[CylonNumber6]

I've had this too and am also a size 12.

I hope whoever said it looked suitably mortified when you said you weren't. If not then they were defo being mean.

Ignore them, i bet you look lovely.

[HorryIsUpduffed]

What a cow. I bet everyone else disagreed.

[CatsRule]

A size 12 is hardly big....no need for people.to make personal.comments like that no matter what your size.

Best to get in there first and say something flippant...dont let them know it's bothered you.

[ParsleyTheLioness]

If you are in a size 12 you are NOT fat!

[Latara]

Size 12 is my ideal size actually, ignore the beeyatch who made that nasty comment.

[KittensoftPuppydog]

You are a size 12! Congratulations!

[WillYouDoTheFandango]

What a fucker! I'm a 12 and look weird any smaller. Ignore her, as PP said she's jealous.

[Edendance]

I'd like to be a size 12 all over :-( stupid bloody hips and too much cake

[aturtlenamedmack]

groove is spot on!
Makes me very happy to see lovely posts like that!

[aturtlenamedmack]

Also meant to say that anyone who thinks a size 12 is fat has a screw loose.

[YouTheCat]

If anyone tells me I look pregnant, I light a fag, take a sip of booze and tell them to fuck off.

[katykuns]

I notice the size 12 was in speech marks so does that mean you arent actually a size 12?
Ignore the daft cow, anyone that makes a negative comment openly about someone's weight either is spectacularly dim or has serious weight problems themselves

[RoxyFox211]

Your a 12 ffs. Yanbu though. That comment was bitchy, but it's them with the problem imo.

Tbh though I've seen some very slinky neat baby bumps about & still struggle with the automatic link between fat & pregnant.

[raisah]

Next time look the person in the eye and say
"No I am not pregnant but I thought you where"
I used that once & it worked a treat.

Or the mn classic "Did you mean to be so rude"

By the way size 12 isn't large or fat.

[yawningmonster]

I am a size 8-10 and got asked twice in one week if I was pregnant!
Wish I had thought of the "Did you mean to be so rude" but was just devastated so I feel your pain

[EugenesAxe]

I know many women that are 10-12 on the waist but that have a protruding lower belly, still.

I am convinced the sag (for me, as I suffer too, although am larger generally) is to do with abs that have not closed together... I found a good link to the Tupler technique if you wanted to try and reclaim a flatter tummy I think here but taking too long to load on phone.

In summary, YANBU to be upset, but being size 12 is possible with body shapes that can 'look' pregnant.