... A bit upset to be referred to, by a 3rd party, as 'huge'?

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Just this....

Someone referred to me as this... You'll recognise her.. She's the huge girl...

Apart from rudeness... At what size does someone become 'huge'.. I appreciate it's all relative etc etx...

PS I'm an (in proportion) size 18-20 and 5 foot 8. So to me tallish and curvy...

Butchy you posted this:

I wouldn’t consider a 5’ 8 male to be tall but a 5’ 8 female is getting on for really rather statuesque in my experience.

As for a 5’ 8 female on heels...

I asked what you meant by the last comment. No aggression in my question.

You answered, I replied. You remained aggressive.

I'm going now - have fun arguing into a vacuum.

OP you asked 'At what size does someone become 'huge' and the answer is, it's subjective and entirely outwith your control how others see you or sadly, choose to describe you. They do have a serious lack of manners though, there is absolutely no need to get so personal when they could surely point you out by your job title or your uniform/clothes or some other way.

Did anyone else realise it's world obesity day today?

PS I'm an (in proportion) size 18-20 and 5 foot 8. So to me tallish and curvy...

That isn't tallish and curvey. Your idea of a healthy weight is warped.

You misquoted what I wrote and then implied that I had intended something unpleasant by what you misquoted.

If you go around misquoting people, you should hardly be surprised when they respond. If you consider that “aggressive”, I can live with that.

I never said or implied there was anything remotely “wrong” about being tall and/or wearing heals. That would be nonsensical.

I'm 5 foot 9 and size 18-20. I am definitely described as curvy hourglass figure so everyone saying it's not, unless you've seen ops picture you can't guess

Again, it's that whole 'I'm just going to say what I think irrespective of whether it hurts someone else's feelings' and I'm really sorry you were on the receiving end of such thoughtlessness.

In the past I was often referred to as 'Big Parmesan' as I'm 5ft10 and a 12/14...I think they meant big=tall but the paranoid teen (and I'm 40+) in me still screams 'they think you're fat!'

Did anyone else realise it's world obesity day today?

And not a Daily Mail reporter in sight...

I hate the fact that if you point out that being obese isn't great then you are shaming someone.....it's actually dangerous and it will kill you.

If someone close to you is obese and you are worried about their lifestyle / health, fair enough, have an honest but open-minded and caring conversation with them. But why should anyone take such an interest in what a stranger looks like? Without knowing anything about their health, their eating habits, their exercise habits, how happy/unhappy they are. People only see that they are overweight, and feel that gives them the moral superiority to judge their lifestyle and say they are damaging their health, don't look the right way etc.

A "normal" slim person may be an alcoholic, may eat only junk food and have high cholesterol, may spend all their spare cash on cocaine. Or they maybe perfectly healthy.

It is certainly not healthy to judge people on their appearance, nor to make sweep generalisations on the health of strangers. Of course, obese people may be unhealthy, but it is not up to moral crusaders to point this out to people they don't even know.

The poster without an ounce of intelligence needs ignoring. They're just on the wind up.
OP...it was very rude of the person but sadly some people just don't think before they speak. Forget about it and don't let it upset you...i wish I was tall and curvy instead of short with a flat ass, no boobs or hips

OP it was a very rude way for then to describe you and I would be very upset too.

On the flip size I would see any woman bigger than a size 16 as large. I’m 5 ft 3 and a size 14 so I see myself as large! But I think generally being overweight becomes more noticeable once the BMI is over 30. I think that’s the point people stop being curvy and become round instead....

It was very rude.

I am size 18 on the bottom and 16 on the top but nearly size 16 now on the bottom. I have only just moved from obese to the over weight category. I would recommend you calculate your bmi. There is a simple tool on the NHS website.

Ugh, whoever said that about you was rude, as was the person who reported it back to you.

Was the person who said it especially small? I'm 5'2(with shoes on) and if I'm honest, taller than average women do seem huge to me, some teenage girls nowadays look to be about 6 foot!
I'd never say it though.

You don't sound huge to me OP. My friend who is your height and size looks fucking fantastic.

But I guess it is all relative, I'm your height and a size 12 and I feel huge next to my 5 ft size 6 friend.

I'm 5ft 9 and have never been described as huge. I don't consider myself to be exceptionally tall. I am a size 12 but having put on a few pounds recently my weight has tipped me over into the 'overweight' category of BMI - I have always been at the top end of it. It never ceases to amaze me however, the number of people who say to me "but you're so slim". I am not slim, I am overweight. This comment is always made by people who are significantly more overweight of course - never by a slim person!

The description by your colleague was rude OP - although I assume you weren't meant to hear it, you just happened to walk past at the wrong moment.

cheeky ffrs

Well I guess we've established who all the fat shamers goady fuckers are on this thread. Bet they're partial to a pork pie or three themselves.

YNBU OP. They were rude

tbf 5'8 is taller than average, the OP does recognise she needs to lose weight, but those peolpe were very rude.

They were being rude.
To take a positive look at this you are well above average height so that goes some way to explaining the comment.

That's so rude!!

Prior to having children I was a size 10 and was 5ft five so considered myself to be quite slim. One guy however told me that regarding my figure I was "borderline and almost too big to date."

Charming.

Some people can just be idiots!

tbf 5'8 is taller than average

Where are you all living that this isn't average?!

DD is Year 7 and stands at 5'4. She's still one of the smallest in the class!

It is a rude expression, and some nasty people on here.

I am the same height as you and the next size up I would hate to be referred as huge. I know I am big but huge is such a hurtful expression.

I am 5’8” I think of myself as on the taller side of average. Do you all live in Lilliput?

To the op, sorry you overheard that comment it was rude

To be fair @JonSnow, the average height for a woman in the UK is currently 5'4. We are getting taller by the generation, though!

What’s wrong with simply “fat” as a descriptor if you really must describe someone by their weight rather than myriad other features?

It seem like some people go out of their way to think of the most hateful version of a word, just to be unpleasant. I mean, calling me fat and disabled is stating a fact, but calling me a lard-arsed cripple or an elephantine spaz would be downright mean.