Adult daughter cannot have an Easter egg because she needs to lose weight.

[Motheroffive999]

Daughters mother in law bought Easter eggs for her son and each of the children , but not for my daughter, because she needs to lose weight. Her mother in law told the oldest Grandchild this in confidence , who then told me.
My daughter is not overweight by much , maybe a stone.
I am absolutely fuming .
Should I say something ?

What's wrong with a normal egg.

The "biggest" egg would be ridiculously big, and the "most beautiful" would be ridiculously expensive. They have them on TV every year as the light-hearted end story.

Maybe your daughter told MIL she didn’t want one? Regardlesss - best ignore a bitchy comment like that in public and wait for a time you can exact a revenge comment.

Sometimes people need to stand up for what is right and wrong. Dont stay out of it! What good does that do? Your granddaughter told you because she’s looking for you to do the right thing. Tell the mil what your granddaughter told you and say how harmful it is to say to young girls about their mother’s weight. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.

I would too. Children can sometimes be very black and white, and also want to stir the pot. If SIL knows his mum and is dealing with the situation, leave it to him. If dgc raise it again play it down.

Sorry, who is saying what "to their own child?"

I said that because she seemed so upset that her daughter had missed out. I said that because instead of putting her energy into a drama with the MIL, go out a buy a beautiful egg that I thought her DD would appreciate. She might have the money to spend, she might want to over compensate. I got the impression that she enjoys buying adult eggs. Tbh I don’t care really what egg she buys and nor should you really. I was just trying to find a solution for her rage.,I’m not suggesting she goes out and buys a Louis Vuitton chocolate handbag egg, a big cadburys one would have done 😆. Depends what her budget is I guess. I’m not sure why everyone is so sensitive about Easter eggs on this thread!

We all get Easter eggs and ALL hunt for them.

In my family if this happened we would all give our Easter eggs to the one left out (who would then share them with us). MIL has embarrassed herself.

Because the op loves the other granny being made out to be evil and horrible

Of course,if what the child said is accurate, the MIL is out of order. It’s not up to you to say anything though, that’s just stirring trouble. I would have just told the child that their Mum is fine and it isn’t polite to make comments about people’s weight or appearance . If you have reported this to your daughter and SIL I think you have done the wrong thing.

I was so picturing a 2ft diamond encrusted egg painted in gold leaf!

I really don't care about Easter eggs. I'm peaved with my friend who showed me a lindt bunny the other day and said "I bought you this for Easter, but you probably won't eat it will you?" I said no, so she ate it herself. She's on a strict diet.

I know it’s unbelievable, what with being female and all, but my personality and actions aren't centred around an overriding desire to be thought of as nice.

Because it's his mother and he should defend his wife?

It would be the same if the roles were reversed, I'd expect the OPs daughter to be the one making it clear to OP that she will not be doing something so petty/cruel to her DH and even worse, telling the GC about it. I would definitely be the one saying something to my own parent if they missed out my partner, even if it wasn't something to do with weight.

I just bought my 20 year old son's girlfriend an egg and he's only been seeing her for 4 months, never mind married and have children together.

@Motheroffive999 I also still do advent calendars and won't stop no matter how old!

The making it conspiratorial with a grandchild just awful.. what a nasty person and nasty mindset..trying to spread that down the generations ..awful

I voted YABU to want to say something because there's no need for you to stick your oar in.

However, your daughter's MIL is a judgemental cowbag. She can take her fat-shaming nonsense and shove it up her jaxxy.

Generally assault isn't ok by anyone's standards, including the police. Nothing to do with women having to be 'nice'.

Wow what an asshole. And what a way to give grandchild a future body image complex

In a situation like this wouldn't you buy an alternative, a bunch of tulips or something else lovely but non-fattening. This feels like a deliberate singling out and to involve the DGC in the ruse is awful.

Who really wants a bloody Easter egg anyway - expensive and not very nice chocolate. Have a fillet steak instead.

So there is nothing else for you to do. How does your son in law know what was said?

Easter egg chocolate is the best

we're adults and still buy christmas gifts for each other?

Anyway, even if she was dieting, a little treat of chocolate every now and again doesn't hurt.

What do the police do about someone who wants to assault someone then? Do the stand in judgement over that? 🤔

don’t be a pious wally

I’d have a word with all of them. Adults can develop eating disorders too and btw this isn’t the way to lose weight

So she bought it for herself then...