Best responses to "You look pregnant/Are you pregnant"?

WanderingRivers
WanderingRivers Posts: 612 Member
edited November 17 in Motivation and Support
So my mother met me for lunch yesterday to bring me my half of a kilogram of salmiak pastilles and her first words upon seeing me are "T! Are you pregnant?!" Of course I'm embarrassed as all get out and response "God no, I'm just fat!" I know my mother wasn't raised in a barn but IDK how to respond when she asks me that just about every time I see her. Ideas?

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  • Theo166
    Theo166 Posts: 2,564 Member
    Since mum is just winding you up, tell her it's getting old and rubs you the wrong way.
    Tell her to find a new button to push, that she needs a new shtick
  • nevadavis1
    nevadavis1 Posts: 331 Member
    Constantly get asked this. All the time. By people I know and total strangers. One stranger grabbed my belly.

    "No, just fat" is my constant response.
  • LauraInTheWater
    LauraInTheWater Posts: 477 Member
    edited April 2017
    Tell her it's rude and to stop asking. Tell her why it hurts your feelings. Your honesty will not only be a practice in setting boundaries but your vulnerability in expressing why it hurts you may end up bringing you closer together. That's what I've done in the past. Also, a woman should know better than to say that to another woman. Some women truly don't know it, though.
  • T0M_K
    T0M_K Posts: 7,526 Member
    i think F U works.
  • HazyEyes93
    HazyEyes93 Posts: 89 Member
    I always say, "Nope, just fat." That's usually enough to make them feel pretty bad. lol
  • Mycophilia
    Mycophilia Posts: 1,225 Member
    Illegitimate food baby.
  • Bex953172
    Bex953172 Posts: 4,170 Member
    Lizarking wrote: »
    "Yes but I'm getting an abortion this afternoon"
    That'll shut 'em up
    That's an awful thing to say..
  • WanderingRivers
    WanderingRivers Posts: 612 Member
    HazyEyes93 wrote: »
    I always say, "Nope, just fat." That's usually enough to make them feel pretty bad. lol

    I've tried that. It works about as well as a square wheel unfortunately.

    I do want to thank everyone for their suggestions and will have to recall to use them the next time she comments on my weight.
  • MsMaeFlowers
    MsMaeFlowers Posts: 261 Member
    "No I'm just fat, but thank you for pointing it out to everyone."
  • BLawyered
    BLawyered Posts: 32 Member
    *kitten* off and die in a fire?
  • BLawyered
    BLawyered Posts: 32 Member
    Kitten!!! Hahaha!!! Ugh... fork me
  • BLawyered
    BLawyered Posts: 32 Member
    Lizarking wrote: »
    "Yes but I'm getting an abortion this afternoon"
    That'll shut 'em up

    Best. Response. Ever.
  • BLawyered
    BLawyered Posts: 32 Member
    Bex953172 wrote: »
    Lizarking wrote: »
    "Yes but I'm getting an abortion this afternoon"
    That'll shut 'em up
    That's an awful thing to say..

    No... asking or assuming that someone is pregnant is the awful thing to say... that response is what makes crystal clear just how awful it is. Imo
  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    I had that happen once. I just answered in deadpan, "No, I'm just fat."

    I was in a really bad mood and I know it made the other woman feel bad but I didn't care. It's completely inappropriate to ask a stranger that question.
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