Most embarrassing 'fat' moment you can now laugh at?

Leah_62803

I can't laugh at this yet because I haven't lost the weight yet but here goes...

I was never big in school and I really only started gaining weight as an adult so I was never subjected to school bullies. The worst I ever had was my rude mother in law and sister in law asking about my weight but they are both quite a bit bigger than me so it didn't feel so bad.
A few years ago I was a bank teller and one day a customer came in and went to the teller next to me. This customer had always been a nice guy and we had talked many times. This day he decided to be funny. I don't know what had started it but he mentioned my weight. I'm not going to lie, I was and still am in denial about what I look like and how much I weigh so I was in complete shock. I had never been called fat before. He started going on and on with the stupid "you're not fat, just fluffy" stuff. I specifically remember him saying something about how my husband probably likes it because I "could give him warmth in the winter and shade in the summer." I was so embarrassed. I was trying to smile about it but I could feel my face getting red and a big lump in my throat.
To make things even worse... The teller next to me (my coworker and "friend") jumped right in with him. She started making jokes about it and laughing right along with him. Then when she noticed that I was red faced and teary eyed started saying "aww I think we made her mad, I think she's gonna cry."
This whole time I'm waiting on my own customer who is looking very uncomfortable and trying not to make eye contact with me.

Finally, when I'm done with my customer I jumped out of my chair and practically ran into the back break area. I started sobbing. Like loud snotty sobbing. Another coworker came in and asked what happened and I couldn't even talk. When the story did finally make it out my other coworkers were PISSED. The other teller ended up sending me an email with a big long apology that I deleted. The customer eventually started going to another branch because I would walk to the back every time he came in and other employees would stand there and glare at him.

tapirfrog

I don't have any "fat" moments I can laugh at yet. And some of the stories on here make me want to cry.

Fitnin6280

Best moment:

I was complaining one day to my 12 year daughter about me not being able to find anything in my closet to wear. I then made a uncharacteristic comment about me being fat (i don't like to talk like that around my kids). Well my daughter wasn't having any of it. She looked at me (like only a 12 year old girl can do, you know, like I'm crazy and she doesn't know where I came from) and she tells me you are perfect just the way you are and don't let me ever hear you say that again or i'm telling daddy and Nana on you. Then she said and I love you and she had tears in her eyes. Best moment ever and the moment you realize, Damn I guess I am raising them right!!

Awwww... This made me tear up... What a sweet girl!!

TiffieLand

Before high school started, I went on a vacation to visit my relatives there. While being out with my old friends, there are couple of strangers who just laughed to themselves saying look at that girl, she looks like a pig so fat. My friend were pissed and cussed them out but I couldn't say anything. It made me felt so horrible, just before I was having a great time. I was probably at 110 at 5 feet- a bit chubby but nowhere near fat. The thing is the standard there is really different. Being 85-90 pounds at 5 feet is normal so I'm mortified obese to them. I don't remember their face ( too bad or I would taunt them now when I go back) but I remember what happened so clearly.

giggitygoo

I'm pretty slim now, but someone just this week asked if I was pregnant and when I was due. In fact I had just eaten a burrito that was bigger than my head and had a pretty respectable food baby.

I responded by rubbing it lovingly, and saying "Thank you, not a baby just a delicious, delicious burrito. It's due any hour now"

More embarrassing for the other woman I suspect.

techgal128

I knocked over a display of glass figurines with my butt at Macy's. I put as many back as possible and pretty much ran out the front door before anyone noticed.

colobon

I sat down on the wooden toilet seat at my apartment and it cracked. I was mortified. I felt like the fattest person on earth because, really, who breaks a toilet seat? My roomie was so very wise. She said "How many people are you going to tell about this?" "None!" "Lots of people have broken toilet seats but they aren't telling anyone either." I felt so much better. Ten years later, an acquaintance on facebook posted about sitting on his toilet seat and feeling it crack beneath him. I messaged him and thanked him for sharing that because, as far as I know, he and I are the only people ever to do such a thing.

This happened to me. And then the one I bought to replace it cracked within a week. The lesson is, don't buy a six dollar toilet seat unless you glue an extra support at the week spot!

CandyMouse

I am so sorry. That's sad. What's wrong with people? Guess it was his loss, huh? I bet you ended up through the years, with much better 'dates' anyhow.

_Josee_

I got the pregnant question a couple of times. And I once broke my desk chair at the office.

I think the pregnant question was the worst for me. I actually got asked the morning I decided that enough was enough and I actually committed to really lose the weight.

Never again.

crys39

I'm pretty slim now, but someone just this week asked if I was pregnant and when I was due. In fact I had just eaten a burrito that was bigger than my head and had a pretty respectable food baby.

I responded by rubbing it lovingly, and saying "Thank you, not a baby just a delicious, delicious burrito. It's due any hour now"

More embarrassing for the other woman I suspect.

^^WIN!! Best response ever!!! Lol

LITtlerMeCO

this is going back 10 years - but my son who was 6 at the time walked up and wrapped his arms around me while I was talking to some friends - he said "mommy I love your bum because its so big and squishy" - little brat

Lol! My daughter did basically the same thing! She called me "fluffy"

My best friend's five year old calls me "fluffy". She was sitting on my lap Sunday, patted my stomach, and said she loved how I was a nice, fluffy pillow, not like her mommy who is hard. I told her I might still be fluffy but I'm becoming much less fluffy every day.

GallifreyanGirl396

2 or 3 things:

-1.) I really wanted this button front jumper, shorts...combo thing...that was on clearance. I had the boots I would pair with it picked out in my mind and everything. Anyway, I skip off to the dressing room to try it on. It fit over my hips fine,but trying to get my arms in and button it was a tight squeeze. Success! Until I tried to take it off. It was a several minute ordeal. I was seriously starting to think I would have to walk out of the dressing room and have them jaws of life me out of the thing. Eventually, I managed to use the hanger to get it off. I waited, lost some weight,and went back to find it there. I bought it. Even at a smaller size, I hated the way it looked on me. Eventually, I traded it away on Listia.

-2.) I was at my heaviest weight working as a photographer. I had a session for a family and birthday photos. The mother showed up before everyone else. We talked for a little while about backdrops and what exactly she wanted. At one point, she put her hands on my stomach and said, "Aw, you're positively glowing. When are you due?" This wasn't the first time someone thought I was pregnant, so I informed her that I wasn't. She attempted to recover by saying, "Oh, I understand. Baby fat is so hard to lose." I then had to explain that I have zero children. She was so embarrassed she cried.

-3.) The second story is a little common I believe,but it leads up to this one...a real kicker. My s.o. and I took a trip to visit my parents. They had made a dinner and greeted us with eager faces. After a few hours, they were apparently tired of waiting and asked when I planned to break the news. I was a little confused,but some hints led me to understand that they thought the visit was to announce my pregnancy. This took place not long after the above, so I decided it was time to lose some weight. haha

JazzKazz150

oh boy, too many moments to count lol. One time, I went to a friends christmas party and saw this "cute" guy talking to her. I always knew I was overweight, but that night I thought I looked pretty for once. So I got the courage to go and talk to him and surprisingly we started to slow dance at one point. I was 15 at the time and he was the first guy I've ever slow danced with, so I was obviously gushing over the fact that a guy would actually slow dance with me. The dance went well and we were laughing a lot. Later we added each other on Facebook, but he wouldn't talk as much to me online. I went back to my friends house and I saw her talking to him online and the way he typed, in my opinion, was pretty funny. So I messaged him and I said, "to be honest, you need to learn to type properly haha" only for him to reply, "to be honest, you need to lose weight. A lot of weight" (Ofc there were many typos in the message he sent). I was shocked and a bit embarrassed since my friend had seen the message and there was that awkward silence. After that, I stopped talking to him, but I kind of regret not standing up for myself :$

shonnanicole0389

Well, hmmmm. I've had the classic. Congrats you're pregnant...no I am not.....oh, come on you can tell me...no I am not pregnant....sure you are ......nope just gained weight now go away.....

omg this happened to me once and i wanted to die. It was horribly embarrasing for the person that said it and me but honestly who the hell asks someone if their pregnant. Like i didnt even know the lady! So nosy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep this happened to me too - was at a friends daughters birthday party and her sister-in-law asked about it. I was horrified - still am and can't laugh at it yet. Mostly because I gained a lot more after that (not because of that, but it was like 10 years ago). I am hoping to find it funny at some point.

I don't understand why anyone asks this question. I've even been asked this question by women who are heavier set than I am-- because I carry my weight in my belly.

That happened to me too!! A lot actually! I use to work at Kmart as a cashier.And I always got bloated really bad while I was at work and there were so many customers that came through my check out line that asked me if I was pregnant. There was this one guy who said "Is this your first baby?" --I didn't even have to say anything to him, I just glared at him with this look and he was just like "Ohhh". The funny thing is, not long after all these people asked if I was pregnant, I actually did get pregnant...But after I got pregnant, no one asked me about it anymore LOL. :laugh:

phyllb

Worse this was a male co worker and my superior. Ughhhhhhhhhnhhh. Still is a total idiot in my opinion

phyllb

That is really sweet , great mom

Soggynode

I sat down on the wooden toilet seat at my apartment and it cracked. I was mortified. I felt like the fattest person on earth because, really, who breaks a toilet seat? My roomie was so very wise. She said "How many people are you going to tell about this?" "None!" "Lots of people have broken toilet seats but they aren't telling anyone either." I felt so much better. Ten years later, an acquaintance on facebook posted about sitting on his toilet seat and feeling it crack beneath him. I messaged him and thanked him for sharing that because, as far as I know, he and I are the only people ever to do such a thing.

This happened to me. And then the one I bought to replace it cracked within a week. The lesson is, don't buy a six dollar toilet seat unless you glue an extra support at the week spot!

Nope... definitely not the only ones. I'm in for two.

949BeachMom

i cant laugh at anything cause im still fat. but wow if i were in your situation i wouldve thrown the chair out n told them it was never there. maybe left it outside the laundry room door lol bahahaha

seltzermint555

When I was in 5th grade I was friends with a girl who would go on to be one of the popular girls in high school. She was skinny, I was fat. We were talking and she said something about me being fat and I said "well, maybe some day or in another life I will be skinny and you will be fat and you can feel how I feel".

Guess who is way bigger than me now. *insert evil laugh here*

hahaha gotta love that. In jr high and high school I had a friend who was more of a 'frenemy' really...the two of us were both bigger than most of our peers, but I was size 20 and she was probably size 14 or 16. Anyway, right after graduation I dated one of her male friends and she was jealous and made a comment to him that he unwisely passed on to me about me being an elephant and she was a mouse. I didn't talk to her for years, not because of that but because she did a lot of other much worse stuff. Now in our mid 30's we became facebook friends and she's easily twice my size. I don't hold a grudge for the teenage stuff but totally admit a little part of me is like "ha!"

seltzermint555

I have a hard time really laughing at any of those moments from my past, like someone else said I am still more likely to cringe at them.

One thing that kind of makes me laugh though is the way I've always run in the other direction from any job or even volunteer/team activity that requires a uniform or matching shirts with other people. I have never worn a uniform for a job due to this. Once I was going to work part-time as a tour guide in a cave and I was really psyched until I found out the uniforms were close-fitting button down shirts and khakis with a belt. Oh hell no. I didn't do it.

Even when I was sixteen and getting my first actual paying job, I specifically applied only to places that let you wear your own clothing, dress up, or a smock/apron over your own clothes. It was the early 1990s and most fast food places had those polyester tight looking tops and bottoms, I would have died before I'd wear that as a size 20 teenager.

Oh my gosh this!!!! I have been terrified of UNIFORMS all my life! Thankfully most of the places I have worked also employed other very large people LOL! So I was able to get the size I needed. Now the part I really hated??? TUCKING IN MY SHIRT!

I've never tucked my shirt in. Like, never. Not even now and I'm a size 10-12. It's not going to happen LOL

I did wear matching team t-shirts and sweatshirts later on at office jobs when we had like a team building day or something, but I always felt embarrassed by that too because I'd ask for men's XXL or XXXL in order for it to fit my belly and hips, and then it would be swimming on my shoulders and arms so it was very obvious that I had a men's shirt on. Ugh.

fatnomoremama

Was at an amusement park and when it came time to get off of the ride (Log Jammer water ride) I almost fell in the water because I was so heavy and awkward.

smantha32

bump

skinnygirldc

Last night I sat on my kids' hammock...and it broke. I fell on the ground, with the hammock in shreds! Guess it's time to get serious about the weight loss.

Lisah8969

I took a class trip to Spain last summer. We were in Granad, where the Alhambra is, and I lagged behind everyone getting up it. IT wasn't so much that I was embarrassed about my body - just my level of fitness.

If you made up to Alhambra walking, you have nothing to be embarrassed about! I sure paid the money to take the bus up that hill!

Not sure if I am laughing about this...years and years ago, I decided to go tanning. I was under the limit for the tanning bed so I thought it would be ok. I always made sure to get on and off it by rolling my whole body so that I would not have all the weight in one spot. Well one time I got on it and after a minute or two, I realized that I forgot to put the extra sunblock on my tattooes so I sat up on it to get off. BIG MISTAKE! In my defense (well just a little in my defense) there was already a crack in the plastic, but when I sat on that one cracked spot, it really cracked and busted open a little to the point where I am grateful I was moving fast so I didn't break any bulbs. Of course after that I couldn't lie back down on it so I left. Luckily, I was done with the tanning package I had bought and I never went back. I have actually used a tanning bed since then, but generally when I go I use the stand up booth. The whole thought of possibly breaking another one and electrocuting myself really scares me.

I have never told that story to anyone before and here I am telling a bunch of strangers.

fastfoodietofitcutie

I'm failing to see the humor in these stories, they are sad. I hope when I lose the weight I still don't find these funny.

Fit_Housewife

Needing and extender for the seatbelt on an airplane.

wndrwmn86

I'm with a lot of people in that I am just hoping one day I will be able to laugh at them because they are currently painful to reflect on.


I have had several people think I was pregnant, the most recent I went to a friends baby shower and was helping my friend lift a heavier gift to put in her car. The other people there were all older ladies, were holding babies of their own, or already had gifts in their arms. This older woman yells, and I mean yells to the point where the people in the restaurant turned and looked, don't lift that you're pregnant! My friend's face was horrified and I turned 5 different shades of red as I had to explain to her I wasn't pregnant and could lift the gift without endangering myself. It was nice of her to be concerned though.

The second was talking to a guy friend of mine that I had a crush on in high school and even going into college. All of our friends knew I liked him lol even he knew I liked him. We got tanked one night and were talking all night like we did often and he looks at me and says "If I could find a girl with your personality and Heidi's body, I'd be the happiest man on Earth". Heidi being his ex-girlfriend. That still stings to this day and he never mentioned it again, nor did I. As far as I know he has no idea he ever said it.

bane0317

Well, hmmmm. I've had the classic. Congrats you're pregnant...no I am not.....oh, come on you can tell me...no I am not pregnant....sure you are ......nope just gained weight now go away.....

omg this happened to me once and i wanted to die. It was horribly embarrasing for the person that said it and me but honestly who the hell asks someone if their pregnant. Like i didnt even know the lady! So nosy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep this happened to me too - was at a friends daughters birthday party and her sister-in-law asked about it. I was horrified - still am and can't laugh at it yet. Mostly because I gained a lot more after that (not because of that, but it was like 10 years ago). I am hoping to find it funny at some point.

I don't understand why anyone asks this question. I've even been asked this question by women who are heavier set than I am-- because I carry my weight in my belly.

My boss IS pregnant- I've suspected since May. And she's pretty much out of the closet at this point- but we still aren't talking about it- no one is saying anything.

Seriously WE KNOW. And NO ONE is asking.

YOU NEVER. EVER.EVER ask.

I wish the lady in Walmart the other day had learned this lesson! I have been working out and even had people mention that they could tell. I was standing at the deli getting something for my husband and she walked in the door and came by me. I didn't have a buggy but had my arms full of stuff. She made a remark about carrying and I stupidly thought she meant all my stuff so I politely said "excuse me?" She repeated herself. LOUDLY. IN FRONT OF SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE. "I asked if you were carrying a little girl." I replied very coldly, "M'am - I am NOT pregnant!". She just said "oh-I'm sorry - I just saw you had a big smile on your face" and walked off. Like nothing was wrong with publicly embarrassing me. I wanted to say "what - do you have to be pregnant to smile?!" I expect some men to make this mistake on occasion but I thought it was a well known rule among women - NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER - ask if someone is pregnant.

Falls under the category of someone who deserves a high five.....in the face......with a chair!

complikaited

I'm really only starting out now, but I've always laughed at my own fat *kitten*, it's how I survived this long. I was at a barbeque at one of my good friends house. We were standing on her deck (it was elevated about 5 feet off the ground). Well I'm standing next to the railing minding my own business, I lean back against it and suddenly I'm falling five feet. I land flat on my back and look up to see my friend looking down at me horrified asking me if I was okay. I was fine, just incredibly embarrassed. She spent the rest of the night trying to convince me that it was a weak rail, and I spent the whole night telling the new comers how the 'fat chick' broke the porch much to the general amusement of everyone.

anaconda469

I had a very beautiful Thoroughbred horse that I competed in Hunter shows. Well the judging scores are 50% horse presentation, 50% rider presentation. Well at the end of the class, we scored last. My trainer could not figure out why, as I had the best horse and my riding for equitation (flat work) was awesome. She went to the judges stand and got a look at the score sheet for us. It went as follows, horse presentation perfect 50%. Rider 10% presentation. Trainer asked why and they told her. My trainer had to come back and with tears in her eyes she gave me our scores. On the score sheet it said that the rider was too fat to be presentable. Rider should come back when rider lost lots of weight. I don't have a horse anymore, but I can laugh about it now as currently most Hunter classes are filled with very beautiful heavy riders.

I have been asked many times, as much as I ride a bicycle, why is my stomach still fat.......my answer is my fat has rearranged itself so it can be lost from there! (here's your sign!)