OK, so I have always been pretty sensitive about my weight. I just hate people commenting on it, because it really is none of their business, and I will torture myself for absolutely ages afterwards and feel hideous and self-conscious if someone says something negative about my size (even in jest.) So now I am pregnant, and so unbelievably happy to be so, and feel all glowy and loving the bump, but some people are just making horrible comments!
There is one woman in particular at work; I was sat at my desk this morning, and for the second time she loudly shouted "Oh wow, hi Fatty!" so all the office heard and I just went bright red and stupidly wanted to cry! I'm not fat, I'm bloody 27 weeks pregnant, and even if I was fat, why is it ok to declare it to all my colleagues? I just don't get why she keeps saying stuff. Of course I've gained weight, but why do people have to point it out.
She actually said to me the other day "Every time I see you you're bigger!" Duh. That's how pregnancy tends to work! And then she kept staring at my face with her eyes narrowed and said "I don't know what it is...your face has changed..." I tried to be blasé and said "Oh yes people have said I'm glowing," to which she shook her said and said "No it's definitely not that, your face has changed shape." It feels like she is deliberately trying to get some sort of negative reaction the way she keeps going on.
So what's your worst comment? And how did you handle it? I really can't see how I'll keep my cool for another 12 and a half weeks with comments like this...
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Hazandduck · 15/08/2017 14:45
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