rudest thing anyone has ever said about your weight?

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  • 143tobe
    143tobe Posts: 620 Member
    A woman pointed at me and said out loud to her friend... "If I ever look like that, kill me."

    I'm so sorry. How hurtful that must have been. All of these stories are so sad. Wow. Humanity.
  • fuzilojak
    fuzilojak Posts: 269 Member
    My previous boss told me my speed and quality would improve if I lost weight. I did art and animation for video games. :\

    I reply, "I gained the weight due to the stress and lack of sleep of working for you so I think this environment might be why I might not be performing at my best."

    awesomeness. What did he say?

    I also ask him how it made me less creative.

    He tried to back peddle and said something about me not having a lot of energy, because I had fallen asleep at my desk a few days earlier. Again, I pointed to my work environment and he changed the subject. :)
  • CharleePear
    CharleePear Posts: 1,948 Member
    My previous boss told me my speed and quality would improve if I lost weight. I did art and animation for video games. :\

    I reply, "I gained the weight due to the stress and lack of sleep of working for you so I think this environment might be why I might not be performing at my best."

    awesomeness. What did he say?

    I also ask him how it made me less creative.

    He tried to back peddle and said something about me not having a lot of energy, because I had fallen asleep at my desk a few days earlier. Again, I pointed to my work environment and he changed the subject. :)

    Wow you have some awesome balls mate!
  • mspoopoo
    mspoopoo Posts: 500 Member
    Too many to post about.

    Told I'd be prettier if I lost a few pounds. I was a size 12
    Told I was chubby. I was a size 8
    Given diet book at work by co workers.
    Every thing I ate at work was scrutinized. I would eat a piece of fruit. Eating healthy today aren't we. Or if I dared have a biscuit at an afternoon tea, dirty looks.

    I tried ignoring but I have found F Off and MYOB and aren't you rude, work perfectly. They don't mention your weight again when you say that to them.
  • Grandpa: "You need to lose weight or get a bigger horse"
    Old Boss: "You're lucky, God sent me this saddle that was big enough for you, I don't think we had one before now."
    Aunt: "You'd be so pretty if you just lost some weight."
    Random stranger driving by in his car as I jogged down the street one morning: "Run Fatty, run!"
  • farewell_friend
    farewell_friend Posts: 41 Member
    Let's see...I've been told I'm skeletal, scary-looking, and I've been compared to emaciated people in Somalia, among other things.

    All that, and I'm not even skinny. I'm at a normal weight for my height (something I keep trying to explain). It makes me wonder and fear, if I ever do become skinny what will they think or say :/
  • HConto
    HConto Posts: 5 Member
    Just remember that when someone makes a comment about your weight that is so degrading it makes them look bad inside and out....not you in any way. Especially said in front of other people. Losing weight and getting healthy is for you and you alone. Anyone trying to lose weight and get in shape or those that are just thinking about certainly do not need anyone else to point out flaws and opinions as we have our own about ourselves. Surround yourself with a good support system not haters. Before I started my weight loss journey I was always asked when I was "due" always made me feel horrible. At the end of the day no matter who says what positive or negative I am the only one that can get me to my goals.
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    Some drunk homeless guy: "Hey man where da gym at"?
    ME: "Excuse Me"
    Some drunk homeless guy: "How much you weigh bro"
    ME: 'Bout 200 pounds'
    Some drunk homeless guy: "huh, at your height you should only be about 150 to160 pound, when you get old like me you gonna have all sorts of problems"
    ME; "Not as many problems as you got, but I'll take it under advisment"
    Some drunk homeless guy: bertstare
  • loribethrice
    loribethrice Posts: 620 Member
    My mom is the source for any and ALL of the rude comments I have ever gotten.
    "You'd be so pretty if you lost some weight."
    "You looked so pretty back then...what happened?" (Again, talking about me gaining weight)
    "You're never going to get a boyfriend"
    And then various comments of parts of my body that are too big. Also she will look me up and down and make this horrible disapproving noise.

    My mom does that too! I had lost 80lbs at one point because I was having major issues with dysautonomia and GERD and she was so happy. Then I gained back weight and she was like "I can tell you've gained weight because your face is big." "I wonder if you fit in those clothes I bought you." "How much have you gained?" Now I've lost nearly 30lbs and she keeps asking me if I am eating and things like that. I can't win either way. My nana also used to make comments about my weight and how pretty I'd be if I just lost some weight. And I remember my gram making a comment years ago when I was in HS and had gained a lot of weight about how I had looked so pretty and what happened?!
  • Solar07
    Solar07 Posts: 83 Member
    Around 10+ years ago, I was working at a gym answering phones and there was some kind of event going on. This guy, who I didn't even know, came up to me and said "You know Atkins really works. You should try it."

    Why do people think they can even suggest a way to lose weight? Unsolicited advice is never welcome in my book.

    PS My dad said to me once, in a whisper, when I was about 10 years old, "I hope you never get as big as your mother".
  • JagerLewis
    JagerLewis Posts: 427 Member
    Just the other day, a co-worker had noticed I'd lost a lot of weight....she says to me...."Do you have cancer? You're really shrinking!" Wow lady...Out of all things possible to say...That's what she comes up with ?!?!? :noway:
  • You have curves... They're just in all the wrong places.
  • etscher
    etscher Posts: 41 Member
    A few years ago, I was dating this really attractive and fit guy who was sooooo critical of all women's weight. He probably had a lot of insecurities.

    We were at the beach and I had finally reached my lowest weight and finally felt comfortable in a bikini. I bent over to pick up a towel, and he took a picture of me from the side (no one looks good from the side bending over - I don't care how fit you are). And he showed it to me and circled all of the places where i was fat. He literally said "omg look how fat you are here and here and here and here."

    So that felt great.
  • chrisnfeen
    chrisnfeen Posts: 6 Member
    My lovely sister told me I needed to gain about 200 lbs...and then I should try out for Biggest Loser TV show.
  • chelseafxx
    chelseafxx Posts: 251 Member
    One time I was at Halloween at MSU and I heard someone say as my friends and I walked by, "of course there's a fat girl". It was obvious they were talking about me because at the time all of my friends were really tiny. That was fun!! -_- Guess who ain't the fat girl anymore?!!!
  • chelseafxx
    chelseafxx Posts: 251 Member
    A few years ago, I was dating this really attractive and fit guy who was sooooo critical of all women's weight. He probably had a lot of insecurities.

    We were at the beach and I had finally reached my lowest weight and finally felt comfortable in a bikini. I bent over to pick up a towel, and he took a picture of me from the side (no one looks good from the side bending over - I don't care how fit you are). And he showed it to me and circled all of the places where i was fat. He literally said "omg look how fat you are here and here and here and here."

    So that felt great.

    That's horrible. This is the type of situation where I find violence IS the answer. He coulda used a nice PUNCH!
  • laoliviabeachbum
    laoliviabeachbum Posts: 21 Member
    I remember overhearing a lad in a nightclub say to his friend, 'she's quite fit.....for fat bird.' I think I was a UK size 12-14 at the time. What he would say now i'm more of a 16!!!
  • LizLearnstoRun
    LizLearnstoRun Posts: 57 Member
    walking home from a bar in college a jeep full of drunk guys pulled up near the side walk threw bottles and mooed
  • Joanne_happygramma
    Joanne_happygramma Posts: 207 Member
    Maybe I just never remember any comments but this happened to my boss. She is a fabulous woman, two PhD's kind, intelligent and had survived cancer twice. During her last chemo her metabolism shut down, literally. She told me once someone said to her "you know my wife became less *****y when she wasn't so fat". Seriously not only calling her fat but *****y. Still not sure where his body is....:wink:

    oops can't say itchy with a b
  • susannek2014
    susannek2014 Posts: 10 Member
    keep your chins up!
  • lemonsnowdrop
    lemonsnowdrop Posts: 1,298 Member
    Let's see...I've been told I'm skeletal, scary-looking, and I've been compared to emaciated people in Somalia, among other things.

    All that, and I'm not even skinny. I'm at a normal weight for my height (something I keep trying to explain). It makes me wonder and fear, if I ever do become skinny what will they think or say :/

    Your ticker says you want to be 91 pounds. You don't think that's too low?
  • MostMidgetlegs
    MostMidgetlegs Posts: 17 Member
    Once when I was younger, maybe 13 or so, I was going for a walk on the beach and someone drove by and yelled out "Keep walking, fat *kitten*!"
  • lindabeth333
    lindabeth333 Posts: 130 Member
    At my oldest sons christening (he was 4 months old) - my ex- Mother-in-Law pinched my stomach and said - "You are still carrying around a lot of bacon right there" - That was 25 years ago and i can still feel the humiliation. Her son was also a charmer.
  • jenmom2myboys
    jenmom2myboys Posts: 311 Member
    Just the other day, a co-worker had noticed I'd lost a lot of weight....she says to me...."Do you have cancer? You're really shrinking!" Wow lady...Out of all things possible to say...That's what she comes up with ?!?!? :noway:

    My husband's boss said the exact same thing to him.
  • Beautifulbridgittlee7
    Beautifulbridgittlee7 Posts: 352 Member
    My dad told me I had a stomach or was getting one( no way I was just bloated), him being the king of stomachs and going up and down. That being called anorexic, sick, or something nasty for wanting to take care of myself( eat well, try new activities, be active, sleep!)
  • LibraryBatgirl
    LibraryBatgirl Posts: 61 Member
    I stopped wearing red (when I didn't have to, it was one of my school colors and some of my team shirts were red) after 15 of my classmates in middle school started shouting " hey kook-aid" every time they saw me in the hall.
  • SeattleJill
    SeattleJill Posts: 73 Member
    I think I've been very lucky. or I look really mean, because most of my life no one has said anything in ear shot of me. The one time someone did i was walking through a park and some Hispanic men started catcalling me in Spanish. I was getting ready to give them what-for when a guy walked by and said in Spanish, "no, no shes way too fat for you to be doing that". I guess he assumed I didn't speak any Spanish. So I said, in Spanish, the equivalent of "He's right, his Penis is way too small to fit into me". Then they all started laughing at him and he hurried off. I was so angry at what he said I forgot to yell at the men catcalling me. hahaha!
  • The rudest I have heard was probably a guy telling me, ''You carry your weight on your legs''.
  • aeb09
    aeb09 Posts: 424 Member
    I was on a golf team in college and we went to Tampa every spring break to play. We had an afternoon off and went to the beach and shopping, then got some ice cream. As we walked down the street (5 of us total) there was an open-air bar and one guy said to his friends "that heifer doesn't need that ice cream." If I heard it, certainly my teammates heard it. I'll never forget it and how humiliated I felt.
  • mistiblake08
    mistiblake08 Posts: 80 Member
    One of my customers from the convenience store I used to work at looked at me one day (he came in every day) and said, "Are you pregnant? Because you've gained weight."
    "Uh, no. I've actually lost some, but thanks for noticing!"
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