A distressed mother has asked for advice as she revealed her mother-in-law constantly fat-shames her and her baby.
As a troubled Reddit user wrote in her post, her MIL began calling her baby fat and started denying her food even when the toddler gets hungry.
According to the upset mom, it all began when she offered to take her MIL with her when she got an ultrasound. During the examination, the mother-in-law, who is allegedly obsessed with living a healthy lifestyle, reacted by fat-shaming the mother after seeing the baby.
“Is that all just fat? Just look at all of the fat! Look at all of the fat she got from her mother! That baby is going to be born obese! Why is no one saying anything about this?” the MIL told the woman’s doctor.
While the doctor reassured her that the baby was perfectly fine and healthy, the MIL refused to back down. Even after her granddaughter was already born, the MIL went on to fat-shame the baby and say that she will become fat like her mother.
As the troubled woman added in her post, her doctor confirmed that she is in great condition. This, however, didn’t stop her MIL from calling her obese and telling her baby that her “legs are so fat” and that she will become “fat fat fat like mommy” if she doesn’t stop eating.
After asking Reddit users for advice, the mother quickly received loads of support from people telling her to cut ties with her toxic mother-in-law immediately.
“Your daughter is going to pick up on this much sooner than you might think, and it will shape the way she thinks about herself for a long time.point 244 |
If MIL isn’t going to respect that firm boundary – about not talking about YOUR weight OR your daughters – then she shouldn’t be allowed near your daughter,” someone wrote.point 161 | 1
“Please, please, please limit her contact with your daughter. This happened to me all throughout my childhood and greatly contributed to the depression that took me down a very dark path. I’m in middle age now and still struggling. Don’t let her influence your baby that way,” another one added.
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