I want your "are you pregnant?" stories
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Cafeteria worker at my job - "You're eating for two, right?"
Man on train: "When are you due?"
and endless others. I get this question alot because I'm an apple and ONLY carry weight in my tummy (my arms, face and legs are thin thin thin...). I used to get really really upset at this, but have tried to accept that this is my body shape and just ignore it. But honestly, WHO SAYS THIS to women? It's basically the WORST thing you can say. Never mention pregnancy unless the person says their pregnant. Otherwise you're going to ruin someone's day!0 -
I was standing in the recieving line at my grandmother's funeral, next to my dad. A lady (whom I've known forever), walked up to me and put her hand on my stomach and asked when I was due. I wasn't exactly in the mood to humor her, so I gave her a dirty look and said "I'm not pregnant, I'm just fat." Luckily no one but my dad heard the exchange. I was so embarrassed (and pissed off).0
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I used to be a manager at a local McDonalds. we would have our 'regular' daily customers come thru everyday and order. This one morning, i had opened the store and it was only like 7am, and it was winter so everytime we opened the drive thru windows it would be FREEZING!
So anyway, this guy who is a dentist came thru like usual and ordered his coffee. i went to hand it to him, and as i was about to say 'have a good day, see ya tomorrow'. he stopped me and said 'when are you due?". at first, i didnt really hear what he said, it was windy and freezing outside so i was just trying to shut the window! i blurted out "what?!" and again he said "when are you due?!" i looked at him with gigantic eyes and said 'I AM NOT PREGNANT!" and the wind and cold weather from outside were making my eyes really watery by now, and he just said "oh im so sorry" and drove away.
he didnt come back for well over 6 months. and lets just say from then on it was always SO awkward. F!0 -
Ive been told one time that I looked like I was pregnant, it was my senior year in highschool...other than that even when i WAS pregnant I didnt look it...just looked fat. BLAH.0
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I posted about this a few weeks back. Had almost lost 3 tone and went to pick my daughter up from nursery and one of the workers there asked me if I was expecting again.
I think my look of shock surprised her and I felt awful especially as I had been doing so well.0 -
Yeah that is the only thing that has stopped me from chatting it up with a pregnant woman (or at least I think they are). LOL...I've been asked a few times over the years, but the worst was when my grandma asked & when I said no she responded "Just fat, huh?" That was kinda the last straw in our relationship, and we rarely spoke after that incident.
I slipped up and asked someone a while back. When she said no I was absolutely mortified. It was a professional colleague, and I still work with her today. Every single time I talk to her I think about that, and my face turns red.
I don't know which is worse...being the offended or the offender. :sad:
I've been asked but I'm just like, nah I'm just fat.0 -
Yes, I have been asked. I was at a bar, of all places, because that is where pregnant women hang out?? LOL.. It was very hurtful, but I responded pretty quickly with the whole no baby, just me, response. I avoid the empire waisted/baby=doll style clothing for this very reason. My weight is very much in my mid-section and it doesn't take much to make me look pregnant. I know people don't mean harm by it, but it still hurts deeply when they go there
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Cause when I was smaller, around 170, I got that question a couple of times. Then I gained 80 pounds and haven't gotten that question at all, until I lose 20 pounds, and a couple of days ago when it was someone I hadn't seen in a few years, and she was "just curious if I was pregnant" lol
I want to hear some of your stories so it'll make me feel better that I'm not the only one :P
Lol. Not the only one. I was meeting with one of the guys in the financial literacy program I run, and he asked me when the "happy event" was. I had NO IDEA what he was talking about (I was thinking... lunch? in about twenty minutes...) Nope, he wanted to know when I was due. To his credit he was appropriately mortified when I laughed and said that that happy event was 7 years previously, when my DD was born...
Yah. I burned that shirt when I got home. lol.0 -
did it on a picnic table while camping....9 months later....sweetest baby girl ever! Oh wait....I misunderstood :glasses:0
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I was a Sr. in highschool at the store an old woman said "When are you due honey?" ... bla - i just told her i wasnt0
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When I was at the grocery store with my newborn, who was approximately two weeks old, a lady in line asked me why I got pregnant so fast with my second. Ummm, yeah. Ok.
This doesn't count. We've all had that residual fluid and bloating when our uterus has not yet returned to it's normal size.0 -
One of the homeless guys that hangs around my hood wears a dress and stuffs a ball or balloon in there. I asked him if he was prego the other day. He got a huge smile on his face. It was either the question or the $5 bill I gave him.
That is high-larious!0 -
To all Mom's out there. It's ok to be in Maternity clothes for 2 years but the sooner you get off the weight the better. I can help. Message me
Christina Applegate star of "Up all Night "talks about her experience being a first time Mommy and her weight. http://celebritybabies.people.com/2012/09/25/the-talk-up-all-night-christina-applegate-maternity-jeans/#more-169822 0 -
I was told "congrats" by a a patient, and when i asked what he was congratulating me for, he said "because you're pregnant"...
I wasn't and never have been pregnant.
I then got a personal trainer that week.0 -
Im veru small framed, so bloat easily if i eat/drink a lot. ive been asked when im due after a large meal, and more than once after a few big bottles of water. my answer? "im not due until the baby starts crowning." my fiance bloats too, we joke about whos further along 0
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My stomach is the only place I carry fat!! A lady I work with the other day asked me when my baby was due. I have lost 30 pounds and can't believe I still get that question. Said it was because my shirt was so unflattering. Almost nothing offends me, but that question always does. Had to go to the bathroom and cry. Ruined my week' but served as slight motivation to try harder I suppose. Just 22 lbs to go! Good luck every one!0
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About a dozen years ago I was hanging out in the lunch room at work with a new employee. A temp came and sat with us. She turned to the new employee and asked, "Are you pregnant?" The new employee responded with a smile, "No. Just chubby." That new employee and I have been best friends for years now. She still has her belly and her outstanding outlook on life. Oh, and the temp didn't last long ...0
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I had a customer ask when i worked at a local bank inside a local, family owned grocery store. She looked at me and said "When are you due?" I gave her the you-must-be-freaking-kidding-me-with-this look, and just said "Excuse me?" She proceeded to ask again...when I told her I wasn't pregnant, just fat, she said "Are you sure? I think you're pregnant and just don't want to admit it." :noway: Really? SERIOUSLY?! Yeah, i was single at the time and DEFINITELY not getting any. I don't think I'm going to be the one chosen for the 2nd Immaculate Conception
On the flip side, she made my awesome branch manager really mad, and he told her to leave immediately before he needed a shoe horn to help her get her foot out of her mouth :drinker:0 -
my answer? "im not due until the baby starts crowning."
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I am an apple shape, so the first place I gain is in the belly. Also the last place I lose. Several years ago while picking up my kids from day care, I had a little snotty kid look at me and say "Are you having a Baaaabyyyy?" I said, no, I'm not" He then said, "then why is your stomach so FAT?" I replied with, "Why haven't your parents taught you any manners?"
Once I gained more weight and it started to show in my extremities as well, people quit asking if I was pregnant.
You'd think by now, people would know better than to ask a woman if she is pregnant, unless she is obviously wearing maternity clothes and about to deliver.0 -
When I was 9 months pregnant with my oldest child I was in the mall walking and a lady came up, put her hand on my abdomen and asked "When are you due". Since touching me without permission is one of my pet peeves I replied sarcastically "I'm not pregnant, I'm just fat". :bigsmile:
You should have seen the horrified look on her face; and boy did she snatch her hand back like I'd just bit her.
That was the only time that ever happened. I think I project an aura of F@#K off, so most people leave me alone.0 -
I once asked someone when they were due, she responded with "my baby is 3 months old" oops. In my defense, she rubbed her tummy while talking about moving closer to her parents "for the baby" *shrug* it was not because she looked pregnant, buuuuut I still felt like a jerk. It's funny now though.0
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This hasn't happened to me personally, but at work (I work in a coffee drive thru) the other day my manager asked a customer if she was pregnant! :noway:
Well of course she wasn't and replied "No, I'm just fat". My manager apologized a million times. The lady laughed it off, but I can't imagine how she must have really felt.0 -
When I was 9 months pregnant with my oldest child I was in the mall walking and a lady came up, put her hand on my abdomen and asked "When are you due". Since touching me without permission is one of my pet peeves I replied sarcastically "I'm not pregnant, I'm just fat". :bigsmile:
You should have seen the horrified look on her face; and boy did she snatch her hand back like I'd just bit her.
That was the only time that ever happened. I think I project an aura of F@#K off, so most people leave me alone.
^ so going to do this to people who touch my belly if I ever get pregnant!!0 -
I used to work the front desk of Lifetime Fitness and I had gained pudge on my stomach first. I used to slouch a lot beacuse I'm uncomfortable with how tall I am. So this woman, who saw me every day and knew I was 16, asked me when I was due. I was horrified!
SO I laughed and tried to blow it off and I said "No no no I'm much too young to have a kid" and she said "Plenty of girls your age have kids, its ok."
At this point I'm near tears and my coworker is trying to get me away and so I said "No. I'm just heavy" and the audacity of this woman, she says to me,
"uh huh. if you say so" and gives me this look and walks away.0 -
i carry ALL of my weight in my stomach (worst curse ever), so i have been asked several times over the years. once i asked a lady where the shorts were located in a store and she told me the maternity section was in the back. that was the first time and i was mortified, i could feel my face burning red.
another memorable moment: when i was serving a table, they asked me how far along i was. i quickly snapped that i was not pregnant. no worries on that one, they left me a $20 tip!
I know it hurts when people ask, but i love how much more embarrassed they get than me.0 -
When I was 16 I was hanging with alot of friends, they were all making sandwiches and I was a vegetarian so I was looking for something different...In the end I made a dill pickle and peanut butter sandwich..I went downstairs with all of them and they all started asking if I was pregnant which I clearly said I wasnt..but three weeks later found out I really was.
You probably were when they asked, just didn't know yet.0 -
My husband and I were at the grocery store and we were in the check out line and this was at my heaviest weight (5'3, 194lbs) and on top of that it didn't help that I had a conveyor belt full of oreo's, cheeto's, pizza's, and ice cream, but the cashier asked that dreaded question, "so, when are you due", I responded "due for what" My husband said "Oh sh@!" and told the lady "ma'am let me answer that question for you before my wife explodes on you, no she is not pregnant"! It was so humiliating!!0
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My aunt had to take me to the hospital last august when i was 19 because I had severe stomach pains and nausea. the whole way there i felt like i was having contractions... she said she knew i was pregnant because i was getting fatter than i already was. turns out it was appendicitis. she hasnt said much to me since.0
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