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 ?

Are you a real person or have you escaped from an ITV soap opera?

@Motheroffive999 My children all adults always get an egg ,a tradition that my late mother started and I continued

Thank you for starting this tradition. I had previously believed this to be of early 19th century origin, but I stand corrected.

why? revenge is best served cold.

Brilliant 🤣

Fair enough. I hope you didn't rise to the bait. Some people just love attention

When our kids started school many years ago, the headmasters speech - (and I heard it two years running)was along the lines of “if you only believe half of what your children tell you about us, we will only believe half of what they tell us about you!)
The point being you can’t entirely trust the kid has got the right end of the stick if you wern't there to hear the conversation. Quite likely that your DD is fed up of people sabotaging her diet and has asked for no junk food.

What a rude bitch! I bet that’s the tip of the iceberg of her poor behaviour too.

That must be a long time ago as it would be a safeguarding flag if her teachers said this now.

Ffs. Any excuse to go no contact with the MIL on here

I didn't say a word but the kids were very vocal when they realised lol .....

Absoutely. Nasty mother in law.

Then wouldn’t she have told her mother not get her an egg, too?

It's very rude for that MiL to decide for your daughter if she can have an easter egg or not. I think that if your daughter thinks she needs to lose some weight, she is strong enough to not eat that easter egg and f.i. share it with her children? Glad her husband will talk to his mother.

What a nasty woman

Overweight or not, Easter is a special occasion for kids and an easter egg at Easter is a one-off.

Of course you can't wade in, but I'd also be wary about what you've heard. It's entirely possible your DD has told MIL she "can't" have chocolate because she wants to lose weight and that MIL is trying to comply woth her wishes.

MILs of DILs can never win, and I'd imagine it's even harder when the DIL's mother is prone to sticking her oar in.

I can’t believe all the people saying stay out of it??! WTF is wrong with people?

We all need to speak up when someone we love is on the receiving end of bad behaviour. DD needs to see that you support her to the hilt and mother-in-law needs to reflect on her passive-aggressive body shaming, it’s not okay on any level.

Mean girl behaviour, take your grandkids out to the shop and buy the biggest egg you can afford teach them that no-one should be left out especially their beautiful mum xx

If someone did that to one of my adult daughters they would have their "heid in their hauns tae play wi"! What a nasty sneaky mare for saying that to a child as well. Not interfere? I'd got nuclear!

I’m not for the ‘body positivity’ movement tbh. I think if someone is overweight they should stop eating crap like chocolate, cake, biscuits etc
People seem to accept their extra weight as part of them, that’s why they get all upset when people mention it instead of thinking to just get rid of it

I think the issue here is taking a child’s word as gospel without any other information or context.
so no I would go mouthing off to the mil or bitching to the sil without full facts if I was invested enough to want to know more.
it’s pretty silly to go in all guns blazing without 2 sides of the story. Especially over something as petty as an Easter egg got an adult!

I think you should just see to it that she gets an Easter egg and a nice one too.

What a nasty thing to say,, and in no way helpful. People don't change their diet at Easter because they have not been officially given an easter egg.

Your daughter or her husband might have told his mother that she didn’t want an egg and the MIL told the grandchild that she’s not getting one but not that it was requested. If anyone needs to question the lack of egg it’s your daughter. Stay out of it.

Accidentally voted YABU but meant YANBU. How awful of her!