Omg -fat shamed by 3yo

Fat shamed 😂 you could be 19 but ask a 4 year old they might say your 90. If a young kid looks at their mum and thinks they would look better if they lost a stone, kids are only 'cruel ' by our own standards. They have such unconditional love that 'chubby' is positive to them. It's only adults who see it as bad

My DD age 4 asked a woman on the the bus once why she was so fat and just wouldn't let it go

It was mortifying

I then had to strike up a conversation with this woman to deflect from it all

I was drawing with my 2 year old a few weeks ago when I was very pregnant and I drew the most unflattering cartoon of myself, basically the largest twirlywoo but with breasts. I asked my daughter what it was and she immediately got it right, it’s mummy. i brought that one on myself.

Getting out of the shower one day my young son asked me why my boobs were so long.

Beat that.

My daughter asked if I had a baby in my tummy.. and I though, here comes the comment about being fat..
but I asked why she wanted to know and it was because "you've got boobies and boobies are for feeding babies.."
not totally wrong I guess- she was also very disbelieving that one day she'd also have boobies of her own!

I was in the communal changing room after swimming at our local leisure centre when a young girl looked at me and asked her mum "why is that lady so fat". I just smiled at the girl and said I liked to eat little children.

About a year after I went back to work after maternity leave (DS 10 now), I was at a big stakeholder meeting, about 30 people there. One of them said, very loudly, oh alwaysscared I didn't know you were expecting again, congratulations!
I was not expecting, and my stomach has not gone down since, in fact it's got bigger
The lady was so embarrassed, so I played it down, but damn it stung!!

Op don't sweat it.

My 4 year old cannon balls off the sofa onto my "bouncy castle belly" umpteen times a day.

My 5 year old neice asked me if I was sad a few weeks ago and I said no, why would I be sad? And she said because you're old and not married.

I'm 28.

Kids are cruel 😂

I was perched on a chair last week and a (I would guess) 3 year old came up and wobbled my leg fat!! I’ve tried to block it out!

Mine very kindly told me I could work out at the gym while he was at his gymnastics class, and then I wouldn’t be fat. Thank you darling, what a thoughtful offer.

My recently turned 3 year old thinks everyone has a baby in their tummy. This is thanks to her room lead at nursery sitting all the children down and telling them she was pregnant and showing an ultrasound before she was even showing.

So it may not be about size! My daughter is skinny and thinks she has a baby on here tummy as well.

I would have just replied 'no sweetie, just too much cake'. It can only be shaming if you let it be

DD once told a lady with facial disfigurement that she looked like a monster. I was mortified and apologised profusely. The lady said it was fine because children don’t understand, and she’s had much worse comments from adults who should know better. Kids have no filter, they just say what they see. My 5yo has told me a few times that my stomach is horrible (after it was disfigured by giving birth to him!)

When my eldest was very small he would loudly call me ‘squishy mummy’ in public😁

This.
It’s just kids being kids; don’t read too much into it.
Use it as motivation for your weight loss journey!

Not a child but I was sat on a flippy-down seat on the train last week when a lady got on with her non-folding bike and told me, quite abruptly, to move so she could store her bike there. Lots of other seats so I got up, only to have the man standing opposite take umbrage and point out to her that she shouldn’t have a bike on the train to start with (restricted times) before adding “not to MENTION that you’ve made a pregnant lady give up her seat!”. I looked around for said pregnant lady before I realised he meant me. She apologised and made me sit down again so I spent 3 stops staring woefully at my “bump” which is really just fat with a bit of diastasis recti thrown in for good measure.

I’m a nanny and have been asked if I’m pregnant several times by kids even older than this. I’m a size 10. Also, twice in my life have been offered a seat by women staring at my stomach and
i was way slimmer back then. Must be the way I stand or something, who knows?
anyway, please try not take this personally even though it’s hard, children are curious and just say what they see or think they see.

My then 6yo told her new tutor she looked like Miss Trunchbull. Kids can be brutal 😳😬

My then 4yo fell for it when my friend joked that she had a baby in her tummy because she'd eaten it 😂

My DCs left me with a very wobbly overhang after they were born. They're older children now, but they still love the feel of it and jiggling it if I let them. It's a nice, soft comfort thing to them. It's not my favourite body feature, but it's kind of sweet that they don't see it that way and it's just a squishy, soft bit of mummy to them. I like the way they see it like that rather than the usual way society sees it as a flaw.

I had that with my niece when she was that age and I was looking after her overnight while her mum was in labour with dn2.

She would not go to sleep and at 3am, poked me in the stomach and asked me if I would be having a baby too. Making me laugh was the only thing that stopped me from dropping her off outside the labour ward so I could get some sleep.

My DD aged 4 said very loudly "look at that great big fat lady putting out her rubbish Mummy". It was my neighbour and she definitely heard.

My son tells me I've got a big tummy every time I get changed in front of him. He's nearly 5. I just reply "oh I know" 🤷‍♀️ they're just kids!

I got ‘mummy why is your tummy still SO FAT!?’ from my 3 year old when his baby sister was 2 days old. Absolutely brutal 😂

That is your perfect opportunity to say “no, I’m not - this is just the way my body looks. Everyone is different!”
It’s really not fat-shaming coming from a small child. She’s only just leaning basic social cues and you could have helped her out!