worst comment ever made about your weight

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  • enewsome2
    enewsome2 Posts: 355 Member
    When I was obese in my early teens I'd constantly be labeled by my peers. The worst lable was "a walking piece of meat". It is funny that now after many years I'm reaching my perfect form while some of them are suffering the obesity at my current age. I'm not content of that since I won't wish anyone go through that, but it should always serve as a lesson learned.

    OMG! OMG! ORLANDO BLOOM is back in the house!!!!! FYI to everyone thinking I'm crazy......I think Titan looks like him. Teehee. Just needed to lighten up this thread. It's so sad :sad: and maddening :grumble: :mad: :explode: :angry: all at the same time

    You're not crazy, he does look like Orlando Bloom. :smile:

    @Titan, you do. You remind me of my husband a little bit...he looks like Orlando, too, but he wears glasses.

    Also, I agree with how sad and maddening this thread is, but it actually helps me to read this stuff. I don't feel so alone in bearing the brunt of horrible insults most of my life. Even when I was at my fittest ten years ago, I still got a comment from some *kitten* at a club in LA...simply because I wasn't a size 0. (I was a size 6-8 at the time and kickboxed almost every day.) Seriously...many people are total f*ckwads. We need to stop giving these bad memories real estate in our minds. Move them out and put some positive affirmations there instead. Practice that...it really does work. It's challenging some days, but it's better than letting the human garbage of the world steal your happy from you.

    I do see the resemblance. That is awesome for you Titan. :)

    I agree that this post is maddening, and therapeutic.

    But, on a lighter note: I think this holds especially true for this topic:

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  • hanna6774
    hanna6774 Posts: 225
    Holy S#@t Jimmy, your tits are bigger than mine! (from a female)
    Thank goodness the moobs have been now transformed into solid pecs!

    I sometimes tell my boyfriend his boobs are bigger than mine, but that's more as a joking insult toward myself for having no boobs.

    Never noticed the boob thing.....was a little starstruck thinking you were Meaghan Fox! You are my new "after" photo :bigsmile:
  • eatherhey
    eatherhey Posts: 147 Member
    "She makes you look skinny."
  • When I was in high school, I was friends, I repeat just FRIENDS with this guy, and as soon as he got a girlfriend I was out of the picture. She hated me and told me that he hated me, and that he would make comments to her about me whenever I walked by, like :"Wide load, coming through". I have no idea if he actually said these things, or if she just made them up because she was insecure about their relationship.

    Also another time when I was in high school, there was a guy drawing a person on the chalkboard, and another girl yelled out that it was ugly. The guy asked who said that, and he looked at me because he thought it was me. A different guy announced that it was me and that he should draw me. So the guy drawing drew basically what i can describe as a very large blob. I remember going home and crying. People are so mean.

    That was a really long time ago, and I'm over it.
  • saragato
    saragato Posts: 1,154
    well in elementary school this one kid called me shamu and in high school a different kid would "moo" at me every time he passed me in the hall way. Who ever said high school was the best years of their life never had a weight problem

    I personally don't know anyone who has every said that high school years were the best...mine sure sucked! :smile:

    Ironically I never had much of a problem in high school and I was circling around 300lbs at only 5'2". The first high school I attended I had maybe one or two guys that ragged on me, my second high school absolutely no one bothered me about my weight (but they did about my race, I was 1 of 5 white students in the whole school and I had a 4.2 GPA which others thought I earned because I was white), and my third high school was the same. Even when I had to take a dance class and was the biggest girl in there and couldn't change into proper attire because none of it fit, no one snorted or laughed when I had to do the same warm ups and difficult ballet moves as the rest of them.

    Junior high was personally the worst for me. In elementary school if anyone called me fat I beat them up, slapped them, or made bets to see if I really could break their bones by applying my weight on them. Surprisingly I only ever got in trouble twice all those years and one was simply when I told a boy off using a curse word when he called me a name. The teacher had to punish me but told my mom the boy had deserved it and she had found it funny how I reacted.
  • christina_theresa
    christina_theresa Posts: 290 Member
    When I was in high school I was close to 220lbs and most of my friends were bigger too. One time we were leaving Perkins really late at night and as we were walking out a guy from across the restaurant yells, "looks like the buffet is just leaving!" I mean really, who says that???
  • Yellerie
    Yellerie Posts: 221 Member
    Are you pregnant?....I just laugh it off and say, no this is my cheesburger bump :) wanna rub it?b:happy:

    LMFAO
  • hermiony
    hermiony Posts: 49 Member
    on my wedding day after looking at me my husbands friend says to him: i see you already knocked her up.
    same day an aunt rubbed my belly and asked whats in here then.

    on my sons christening same aunt saw a pic of me on the fridge in my house when i was 8 and skinny and said in front of loads of people loudly : see didnt i tell you to be careful not to get fat?wasnt i right? all the while smiling at me.

    after losing 50 pounds recently my grandma was trying to offer me cake and i told her im being careful with my food, she looks me up and down and says: yeah you do need to cut down!

    another aunt again after i lost weight:after congratulating on my loss, pokes at my saddlebags and says well you still need to lose these but i guess they are herededery so you will always have them.
    gee thanks?

    i think i blocked out the rest!
  • gracie2586
    gracie2586 Posts: 69 Member
    Looking back i can remember my mom saying things like "do you really need seconds" "do you think you should be eating that" when i was younger i used to sneak eat because of that now when she says things like that i remind her that we share clothes and she's the one who brings most of the junk food into the house. It quiets her pretty quick
  • xMsAlly
    xMsAlly Posts: 164 Member
    I ran into a guy who I haven't seen since high school (4 years ago). The first thing he said was "Are you getting fat on me?"

    PS - I gained about 10-15 lbs. Talk about a wake up call.
  • icklecyberfairy
    icklecyberfairy Posts: 56 Member
    Come to Korea, and you will be dealing with very hurtful, insensitive remarks all the time - I've been in tears many times, but the one at the top of my list just didn't warrant any hurt feelings at all!

    One morning I was running for the elevator and caught it just in time. It was only me and one of the senior engineers in the building in the elevator. The moment I stepped in he started looking me up and down.... He started the 'small talk' with 'Do you exercise?' I knew what was coming so replied: 'Not enough!' adding a kind smile. So next comes his advice ' You should exercise more!' to which I replied 'Yes, that's true' (by this time, I wasn't only giving him evasive answers, I was starting to turn my back on him as well)

    Next question: "How much do you weigh?" I look around in absolute amazement and say 'Too much".... Him: "no, really how much?" and after he looked me up and down again he offered "150kgs?" To that I replied, "No, that's too much".

    Thankfully we reached the 4th floor just then.... Now I take the stairs and get in some much needed exercise. Pity he couldn't climb stairs to rid himself of his rude insensitive manner and his total misunderstanding of appropriate small talk topics in English. :bigsmile:

    True. I'm in Korea as well. Before here, I was in the Republic of Georgia (ESL Teacher). In both places, they think comments about your weight are nice and helpful because then they think you'll just "do something" about it.

    I TOTALLY understand this. I live in Korea, too. I was told by a photographer (visa photos) that the best way to diet is to "eat kimchi, hamburgers no good." I then continued to tell me "good face, pretty, but too much fat".
  • oh also, I was friends with this guy that I had a crush on, and he was going to this party, the host we went to high school with, and he asked the host if he could bring me, and the host told him no, because he had standards. GOD FORBID he have some ugly fat girl at his party.

    a) I want to point out that the host had absolutely no room to talk, because he was a bit chunky. And his locker was right next to mine during high school and he had majorly bad B.O.

    b) I have to point out that the guy that i had a crush on was obviously a complete idiot for even telling me this lol
  • saragato
    saragato Posts: 1,154
    When I was in high school, I was friends, I repeat just FRIENDS with this guy, and as soon as he got a girlfriend I was out of the picture. She hated me and told me that he hated me, and that he would make comments to her about me whenever I walked by, like :"Wide load, coming through". I have no idea if he actually said these things, or if she just made them up because she was insecure about their relationship.

    Also another time when I was in high school, there was a guy drawing a person on the chalkboard, and another girl yelled out that it was ugly. The guy asked who said that, and he looked at me because he thought it was me. A different guy announced that it was me and that he should draw me. So the guy drawing drew basically what i can describe as a very large blob. I remember going home and crying. People are so mean.

    That was a really long time ago, and I'm over it.

    Ugh, I've had that done to me so many times. The worst one was when I was taking part of a week long storyboarding/animation "camp" and one of our first assignments was each person would stand up for five minutes and we had to draw them as quickly as possible, whether realistically or in our own style and then we would show the person what we drew to compare. There was one guy in the group who thought he was too cool for school and when it was my turn everyone drew me rather well except him. He drew an egg-shaped blob, put boobs and my hair on it and my clothes and surrounded "me" in a circle of cakes and candy. It really hurt me, but luckily the man in charge of the area we were in gave him an earful.
  • ccnjc4e
    ccnjc4e Posts: 142 Member
    Every Christmas when we go to my inlaws my husband's brother invites this older couple and one year she said to me "if you'd eat some vegetables you'd lose some weight." That was it! I started my diet right after that! She still questions me every time I see her about what I am doing to lose weight! She's is such a bag!

    You should tell her, "I don't know I eat chocolate bon bons watching Young and the restless and never exercise" Heehe.
  • editnonnalynn
    editnonnalynn Posts: 495 Member
    You know at funerals you see family you haven't seen for ages. So my uncle comes up to me and says, "Hey I didn't recognize you!" Just then my son, who was about 14, come up and I say,"I'll bet you don't recognize this guy either, It's Danny!" So my uncle says "WOW, DANNY, YOU'VE GOTTEN BIG, TOO!" Oooops! hahahahahaha I think my uncle was more embarrassed than I was!
  • juliesummers
    juliesummers Posts: 738 Member
    Holy S#@t Jimmy, your tits are bigger than mine! (from a female)
    Thank goodness the moobs have been now transformed into solid pecs!

    I sometimes tell my boyfriend his boobs are bigger than mine, but that's more as a joking insult toward myself for having no boobs.


    Never noticed the boob thing.....was a little starstruck thinking you were Meaghan Fox! You are my new "after" photo :bigsmile:


    You're way too sweet!!!! <3
    You definitely just made my day!
  • DameVenus
    DameVenus Posts: 70
    My worst was.....


    Aren't you ashamed to be a plus size woman? I mean everywhere you look, in magazines and on TV beautiful women are thin. Diet programs and pills make millions of dollars a year, doesn't that tell you something? Everyone wants to be thin. The only beautiful women are 120lbs or less. You should seriously consider getting plastic surgery and lipo for you to be considered even somewhat attractive. Think about it.
  • lanline
    lanline Posts: 5
    There have been so many comments about my weight, it's hard to remember them all.
    - Getting a part for my bike and the repairman says "dude... you're going to break that bike with your size."
    - A female coworker starts out telling me a story about some guy with "And he was EVEN BIGGER THAN YOU!...." (weight)
    - "yeah, Colleen was wondering how you could be so fat and a vegetarian?"


    Not as bad as the DIRECT ATTACKS, but sometimes these casual reminders are just as cutting.
  • I was standing at a bus stop one day, a young guy walked passed me and said "frigging hippo !"


    An old co worker of mine that I thought we were becoming friends and about 4 years younger than me said "your the fattest person I've ever talked to much less became friends with" out of the blue one day when we were on a totally different topic.
  • valenief
    valenief Posts: 134 Member
    When are you due?? Also my 3 year old asking "why is your belly so big momma?"
  • LadyRush
    LadyRush Posts: 95 Member
    My hubby and I were at a red light and a very obese person was crossing the street in front of us. I felt sorry for the lady and mentioned that I don't ever want to be that big....my husband smiled ever so pleasantly and said "You're on your way!"
  • amy_marlene
    amy_marlene Posts: 178 Member
    ' you are pretty...but you would look so much better if you could lose some weight '
    - some random guy sow me running - ' run you fattie,lose that weight '
    me talking with a friend about why guys are almost never hitting on me - ' well they are just interested in looks '
    -some random guy on the street - 'omg you are so ugly'
    -some guy talking about me - ' well she is really nice but she is so unattractive '
    -one really rude guy - ' i knew you..you were pretty before...you got so fat...have you looked in the mirror lately... you're a fat cow now '
    oh and lots of insults when i was in primary school
  • jennifeffer
    jennifeffer Posts: 98 Member

    A five year old girl recently told me......'your tummy is big'. Awesome...............

    Kids are the worst. I'm literally terrified of them in public because of the things they will say. I know the parents can't help it and I usually don't say anything to the ones that just look really embarassed or I let them know it's okay. But when the parents laugh....

    Over Christmas, some little boy, probably 8 or 9, turns around in the line at Wal-Mart and says: "God, you're the fattest person I've ever seen." My response: "Well Santa is a fat person, and we fat people stick together. Since you're such a rude little boy, I'll call and tell him not to stop by your house."

    Ohhh, that's awesome! I wish i could come up with these comebacks!! This girl is a neighbourhood kid and she seems very young for her age, i'm just guessing really at her age really. I don't think she meant it to be mean but she was making an observation. Mind you, her mother is really thin...........I think what got to me was she said it in front of my six year old son and i think it bothered him bc he blinked his eyes a few times like he was holding back tears. I was the only adult in the room. If she had said it to me and no one else heard i would have been able to shrug it off a bit quicker.....
  • vickimieth
    vickimieth Posts: 333 Member
    I've heard plenty of hurtful things over the years... but the worst are probably the ones I say/think about myself....
  • aura100
    aura100 Posts: 23 Member
    In elementry school they called me 'moby d' :(
  • When I was in high school, I was friends, I repeat just FRIENDS with this guy, and as soon as he got a girlfriend I was out of the picture. She hated me and told me that he hated me, and that he would make comments to her about me whenever I walked by, like :"Wide load, coming through". I have no idea if he actually said these things, or if she just made them up because she was insecure about their relationship.

    Also another time when I was in high school, there was a guy drawing a person on the chalkboard, and another girl yelled out that it was ugly. The guy asked who said that, and he looked at me because he thought it was me. A different guy announced that it was me and that he should draw me. So the guy drawing drew basically what i can describe as a very large blob. I remember going home and crying. People are so mean.

    That was a really long time ago, and I'm over it.

    Ugh, I've had that done to me so many times. The worst one was when I was taking part of a week long storyboarding/animation "camp" and one of our first assignments was each person would stand up for five minutes and we had to draw them as quickly as possible, whether realistically or in our own style and then we would show the person what we drew to compare. There was one guy in the group who thought he was too cool for school and when it was my turn everyone drew me rather well except him. He drew an egg-shaped blob, put boobs and my hair on it and my clothes and surrounded "me" in a circle of cakes and candy. It really hurt me, but luckily the man in charge of the area we were in gave him an earful.


    Wow that'sawful. I'm glad he got an earful though.
  • rachaela06
    rachaela06 Posts: 167
    One time I was called a "B$&@!", by a woman, who was much heavier than me, while she was eating an ice cream cone. I just shook my head. No matter if you are overweight or thin, comments about your appearance can hurt anyone.
  • Noontz
    Noontz Posts: 1
    MOOOOOOO!!!

    Your A.. is so wide you could drive a tractor trailer through it.

    The appropriate response to that is "Too bad all you have is a Mini!"
  • sweettthings
    sweettthings Posts: 157 Member
    A male friend told me that he ran into my ex-boyfriend. I asked how he was doing, and the reply was "He's living with a new girl. It's weird, she's exactly like you, except skinny." I didn't know how to respond, because I wasn't sure if he said it to be mean, or if it was unintentional. Either way, it made me feel like ****. And I don't even care what the ex is up to, I was just making polite conversation.
  • sma83
    sma83 Posts: 479 Member
    When I was about 6 1/2 months along with my daughter a lady at my Mom's church overheard be talking about my pregnancy and laughed in my face and said "OH! You're pregnant...I just thought you were fat"....yea....thanks lady...