To have cried in the pub toilet

[roarityroar]

Because a man I don't know at the bar said "oh wow, you look just like Bridget Jones!"?

I'm 28 and not that it matters a size 8. I've had a hugely difficult week and felt quite confident today and now I feel crushed and stupid and fat and disgusting.

[MilkTwoSugarsThanks]

??? I think Bridget Jones is really pretty!

[witsender]

What's wrong with looking like Bridget Jones?

[watchoutformybutt]

Huh?

[CherryChasingDotMuncher]

But...Renee Zellwegger is lovely looking! More so in the first 2 films bless her. And she was never remotely fat. Never got that in the films she was about a size 10! Take it as a compliment, I would!

[carefreeeee]

Depends which film - the first one she was very attractive.

[ImsorryTommy]

What's wrong with looking like her?

[flapjackfairy]

Head over to the rudest thing that has happened to you thread .
You wont believe how many people have suffered hurtful comments .
Ignore and hold your head high. Bet you are gorgeous X

[WanderingTrolley1]

"Bridget Jones" is lovely!

[CherryChasingDotMuncher]

Yes that other threadnis interesting. Where the hell do men get off commenting on a stranger's appearance?

[NerrSnerr]

I'd be over the moon if someone said I looked like Bridget Jones!

[roarityroar]

I think I always saw her as the archetypal overweight, chain smoking pathetic, needy spinster. I'm also 20 years younger, in recovery from an ED, don't smoke, barely drink.

It really really hurt. As I said it'd been a very hard week and I'm newly single and just utterly dejected and devoid of confidence

[wifeyhun]

I think it's a compliment!

She was never!! fat!!!! in either film.

[roarityroar]

Please don't have a go at me for the perjorative comments about the Bridget character. It's all about my own insecurities, I don't judge other women.

[KateDaniels2]

It was a compliment. Bridget jones/ RZ was very attractive.

Wasnt asuming you were pathetic or needy or a chain smoker or drinker.

[witsender]

But Bridget is 48, or fat...She's a successful woman who is slim, with good friends etc and a rather unfortunate way with men. Change your thinking.

[roarityroar]

SHE WAS

[witsender]

Sorry, isn't 48 or fat.

[KateDaniels2]

And she was not over weight. She just wasnt hollywood skinny (size zero).

Besides you can be a different build to someone and still look like them.

[ilovesooty]

She was what?

[ImperialBlether]

Honestly, everyone else would see that as a compliment!

[roarityroar]

Accidental post there..

I meant "she was overweight in my eyes, as someone who spent many years with an ED, plus in all films a solid 10 years older than me."

I feel chubby and awkward and I hate myself. It's been a really horrible week involving a termination and finding out the would have been father has been cheating throughout.

[carefreeeee]

She was 30 in the first film.

My dad got told he looked like Harold Shipman once. Now that was upsetting.