Why would a grown woman do this?

[RooBee17]

I have been attending a local slimming group for almost 2 years now. On the same day i started another new member joined and we became good friends. We socialisd outside of group and took our kids out for days out.
7 months after starting slimming I gained a little confidence in myself and started dating a man I am still with now.
My friend met him once and she seemed really happy for me.
In the past few months my friend gave up slimming so doesn't go anymore so I go it alone.
Recently my boyfriend attended a group with me on his day off work. I have made good friends there and I talk about slimming a lot so he came to check it out.
I returned the following week on my own and the ladies were shocked.
"Your boyfriend isn't what we expected "
I found out from them that on a week I wasn't present my friend showed them a pic of my boyfriend. Except it wasn't him.
It seems she had googled someone with extreme facial tattoos and piercings and claimed it was him!
I messaged her when I got home. It wasn't confrontational. I just said the ladies were a bit surprised when my boyfriend showed up as he wasn't anything like they had been shown and I then mentioned the photo she had showed them.
I don't know what I expected her to say but she just played dumb and said she had no idea what I was talking about.
I can't work it out, but I am done with this friendship now. I really can't be bothered with such childish behaviour.
Just had to get this off my chest!

She doesn't know boyfriend's surname and we don't use Facebook.
It was a silly, strange thing to do and I am not prepared to stick around and see what else she is capable of!

I have no idea. The fact that she didn't own up to it suggests it wasn't a joke.

My boyfriend came to one meeting as we planned to spend the day together. I had asked the consultant before hand and everyone was fine with it.
Nobody's weight is shared with anyone and the group chat is really just people sharing their food plans for the week or recipes.

Why on earth did he go to your slimming group with you???

I see you’ve explained why he came-but he should have waited outside. In the car perhaps, or a
cafe or something. It takes a lot of courage to say “No” if someone says “Is it OK if Fred comes too?”

Not just one! I think it’s odd to take him too.

I have explained more than enough through the post why. He came one time! Big deal!
Its always the same on MN. Always a pile on about absurd things not related to the subject of the post.
He went, others some times do, its not a big deal.

Only if he sat and ate biscuits whilst they weighed in.

Haha! He wouldn't. He is also doing his own weight loss journey with calorie counting so I think he was a bit curious to see what Sw involved.

He planned to at first but my consultant and a few others were keen to say hello so he did.

Who takes their boyfriend to slimming group 😆. Christ talk about needy…

Says the poster trying to get a reaction on a social forum.
It was once in a blue moon situation. Get over yourself.

I’ve met so many strange people, things like this don’t surprise me anymore. She sounds jealous, you know the other ladies are telling the truth as there’s multiple of them and only 1 of her…

Thank you to those who replied to the actual subject at hand. I appreciate your input. 😊

How strange.

i can’t see what she could possibly get out of this.

how has it been left? Has she noticed you’ve cooled contact with her yet?

She must know why. I wonder if she will just withdraw / fade away, or if she’ll keep trying to act like she hasn’t done anything.

it’s very weird and obviously someone’s lying/joking, but can you be sure it’s her and not someone else at the group that told you about it?

I have known some of these women in this group for years and I had attended previously just after my son was born 10 years ago but stopped when covid hit.
We're all good friends and socialise outside of group sometimes. I really don't see what the issue is. I attend on my own every week usually so its not like I need a hand hold fgs.
They asked to meet him and it happened.

Still can't understand the issue with it tbh

Agreed. It's not a social to be gawped at by outsiders. Surprised they let non-members in.

Contact with her had slowly become less frequent since she quit SW. But since I asked her about the photo we don't talk now. There was no animosity or anything like that.
I stopped messaging and phoning and she hasn't tried to either.
Its for the best.

I bet they were keen to meet The Amazing Tattooed Man 😂

"I have made good friends there and I talk about slimming a lot so he came to check it out."

Try to keep track, yeah 😭

I am curious too! I never saw the pic she showed them 🤣

Sorry, im not following what you mean? Keep track of what?

"In the past few months my friend gave up slimming so doesn't go anymore so I go it alone."

"I found out from them that on a week I wasn't present my friend showed them a pic of my boyfriend..."

Just after a timeline because some of the details don't make sense to me.

Sure, in your original post, you're saying your boyfriend specifically came to check it out because you'd been talking about it a lot. Then, you replied to someone with a story about him only coming in to avoid waiting in the car.. which is it?

It doesn't matter what images came up on a Google search.

She had already met him, so knew that wasn't an image of him.