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I've just been fat shamed by a 4 year old

286 replies

Mooey89 · 15/08/2017 18:24

'Why do mummies have to have such huge massive fat tummies?'

Along with helpful cunt exMIL this morning chirpily 'I am a bit worried about how much you want another baby, are you sure you aren't too fat to conceive now?'

Luckily last week I had an epiphany and I have been back to my diet 100% this week, but I do have 4 stone to lose.

Please can you cheer me up with similar tales of child honesty???

I'm just focusing on the time aged 6 that I told DM that she smelt like wet dog... 🙈

OP posts:
problembottom · 15/08/2017 20:03

My DSis tried to explain to my nieces, who were a smidgen overweight, about making good food choices to keep fit and healthy. All good until they went to their Italian MILs and one niece said: "No Nonna I can't eat that dessert, because Mummy said I will get fat like you." NOT what my DSis had said... didn't do much to improve their already strained relationship.

thisismadness77 · 15/08/2017 20:03

This is such a funny painful thread!!

user1471459936 · 15/08/2017 20:03

Ugh. I've had the "Mummy, you've got a huuuuuuge tummy" comment. I'm a size 8. But, to him, I'm gigantic. He has also said I have massive feet (quite true), I am verrry old (not really), and my teeth are yellow (must book dentist).

bluebird3 · 15/08/2017 20:07

Babysitting my friend's 6 year old...we went swimming and I jumped in the pool on an old mesh raft and it busted through! It was actually quite funny but then 6yo told me in a very serious tone that 'people who weigh millions of pounds shouldn't jump onto rafts.'

Serves me right as when I was a kid I told my mom her big face mole made her look like a witch. She had it removed...and still brings it up.

Assburgers · 15/08/2017 20:09

Staying with my sister, I came down to breakfast wearing a backless top. My 4yo nephew asked me when I was going to put some clothes on 😳

Nomoreboomandbust · 15/08/2017 20:12

Sorry this thread is bloody hilarious.

My 6 year old asked me very loudly on a crowded train 'mummy does all that fur round your bottom keep you warm?'

Dam that bastard Attenborough

OhMrDarcy · 15/08/2017 20:12

DD said loudly the other day whilst watching tv "Daddy, that lady looks exactly like Mummy. Is it Mummy on the tv? "

We were watching Dawn French in The Vicar of Dibley

Tiptoethr0ughthetulips · 15/08/2017 20:14

DS looks at sanitary towel..."what's dat mummy"
"aw just a bit of tissue in mummy's pants"
"got poo on it mummy"
"no sweetheart it's a little bit of blood, it's like a big plaster"
"no mummy dats poo poo from your bottom"
All played out in public toilet cubicle. I would have flushed myself down if I could.

MissionItsPossible · 15/08/2017 20:16

Me and my daughter went to visit a woman once, when we were going to buy a heated clothes airer we had seen in the local paper. The house stunk of stale milk, stale ciggies, beer, stale sweat, and just a general skanky smell. As we walked into the hall (and the woman was walking into the kitchen,) my daughter said 'God it smells horrible in here, like a wheelie bin!' Shock

I smiled (awkwardly,) and said 'oooh, nice snake!' whilst pointing at a huge snake in a glass tank she had in the hall. 'It's in here!' she snapped sharply (referring to the heated clothes airer.) I said 'ok I'll take it thanks,' and handed her the tenner she wanted for it.' She just took the tenner off me, handed me the airer, and showed me to the door, without saying another word. I said 'byeee, thank you.'

Nothing. No response whatsoever. She just shut the door! Confused

I am hardly surprised!! Grin

Ronnyhotdog · 15/08/2017 20:17

I normally straighten my frizzy, wild hair. Decided last weekend to leave it in its natural curly state. Went to visit my niece and her daughter who's 3, she said " auntie Ronny, your hair looks very messy" sigh, back to the ghds I go. I hate my hair. Dh had assured me it looked fine 😂 Think he was just fed up of waiting for me to get ready.

Happydoingitjusttheonce · 15/08/2017 20:18

My son when little said "mum
you've got bruises on your bum". No darling, it's cellulite

Happydoingitjusttheonce · 15/08/2017 20:19

And was once referred to by a friends littje one as "the one with the tatty hair". I can look good, honest!

maygirl27 · 15/08/2017 20:20

Okay, not fat shaming - but enough to want to crawl away and hide. At the insistence of my darling daughter I had my eyebrows threaded. Unfortunately I was left looking like a love child of Mr Spock and the Joker. My daughter took one look at me, burst into howls of laughter and exclaimed (very loudly) that they 'accentuate the bags over your eyes'. Kids!

isthistoonosy · 15/08/2017 20:20

I've recently lost a couple of stone (still at least 2 to go) and was trying on some old clothes to see what fits. I'm squeezed into a 14 wondering if I can pull it off with a loose top when 3 yr old walks in and says,

"why are you wearing aunty Janes trousers? They are much too small for you!" followed by some serious laughing.

So that's a no then, and the 14's have all gone back in the closet :-( for now

PurpleDragon76 · 15/08/2017 20:23

Tucking my 5 year old into bed she says, "Mummy?"
"Yes babes?"
"You are old and you are fat"

Thanks. I am 40 and 4 stone over weight.

Foxglovesandsweetpeas · 15/08/2017 20:24

When my son was 5 we visited a castle in Cornwall. There was a very old lady in there in a wheel chair and he touched her arm and said "is this a real ghost?"

Also in our old village when he was about the same age (and a big Scooby Doo fan) a man walked past whilst we were weeding the front flower bed and my son looked up and said "that man's wearing a scary mask" - he wasn't!

Mittens1969 · 15/08/2017 20:24

My DDs used to ask me, why did I have a big tummy?

Even more embarrassing, DD2 told me that her school friend had told her that her mummy had said that DD2's mummy was fat. I laughed it off but it was humiliating.

I have lost a lot of weight since then, thankfully.

TrickyLicky · 15/08/2017 20:24

Took my (now almosy 13 year old) nephew swimming when he was small. We were queueing on the steps of the waterslide. Lady in front of us had bikini bottoms on which had slipped down a bit at the back. Nephew annoinces in a loud voice "auntie Tricky, you can see that lady's bum!" Blush

EvilDoctorBallerinaDuck · 15/08/2017 20:26

Anecdoche 😂

MaisyPops · 15/08/2017 20:27

When I was a uni student the kids at a kids club I worked at insisted that I was a mummy.
I felt really self conscious and politely reminded them that I wasn't a mummy only to be corrected becauae it turns out all women who have boobs are mummies. Grin

JamOrCreamFirst · 15/08/2017 20:28

DD aged 4 to hospital consultant: "Are you a man or a lady?"

Bathinginthedark · 15/08/2017 20:29

"Mum, that man has got a baby in his tummy" really loudly!

PastysPrincess · 15/08/2017 20:32

DH and I were looking after our DN and they were play fighting which descended into tickling. DN shouts
"Quick PastysPrincess, help me, tickle his front cheek"
Took us a few seconds to realise he was talking about DH double chin!

lozzylizzy · 15/08/2017 20:33

I get 'oooooh squishy squishy' in a silly high pitched voice from my DD (3) whilst pressing my tummy in with her hand repeatedly!

She will do it anywhere. I am sure she does it in cafes so I feel bad about eating cake and maybe she can eat it instead Shock

EvilDoctorBallerinaDuck · 15/08/2017 20:35

The worst we've managed was walking upstairs in Hamleys behind a man with a high tech prosthetic leg, DS2, 5, bellowed, "That man's got a robot leg!" 😳