My Mom Grabbed My Fat

I’m almost 6 weeks pregnant, so I’ve been bloated really bad for about 3 weeks now. We haven’t announced to anyone and don’t want to until 12 weeks.

My mom has always been extremely critical of my weight. And she has noticed how puffy I look and has been making comments every time I see her, which is every weekday because we work together.

Well this morning she walked up to me, pinched the fat under my chin and shook it. Then grabbed some of the fat on my side and shook it too. While doing this she said, “you have got to lose his weight, you look awful.”

In front of everyone at work.

I’m 5’3 and I weighed 165 before I got pregnant. I haven’t weighted myself since my BFP because I am so bloated and I honestly don’t even want to see how much I weight until the bloat goes away and it’s actual baby weight I an gaining.

It was so hurtful for her to do that. She had always been tiny, if she thinks about losing weight t happens. I’ve been struggling to lose weight for years and she has never let me forget how I can barely shed 5LBS in four months of hard work and dieting.

When I tell her it hurts my feelings or that she is being mean, she just tells me I am over dramatic or that if I can’t handle the truth then I should use it as motivation to lose the weight.

I am so sick of hearing it from her. But this is the first time she has ever grabbed any of my fat and she really crossed a line. I wasn’t going to make a scene at work, but I am beyond angry. I’m self conscious about t enough and I know she doesn’t know I’m pregnant yet, but I should be allowed to get through the next 6 weeks until we want to start telling people without her pulling this bullshit on me.