Her Mom Refused To Take Down Family Photos From Before Her Weight Loss, So She Secretly Swapped Them Out Herself, And Her Mom Was Furious
This young woman is twenty-one years old and has struggled with her weight for her entire life.
“I am not talking about baby weight, either. I mean that I was two hundred pounds at five foot one when I was sixteen,” she noted.
So, for as long as she can remember, she always felt really uncomfortable in her own skin. Then, once it was time for her to head off to college, she decided it was finally time to make a change.
Her weight loss journey ended up taking years of hard work and education on healthy lifestyle habits.
But she has since achieved a healthy weight, and she is now just terrified of ending up back where she started.
The real problem, though, is that her mother keeps a ton of family photos throughout her childhood home– which she despises. And every time she visits home, the photos serve as a blatant reminder of one of the most emotionally difficult times of her life.
So, she has tried begging her mom to take down the photos– even just the ones that have only her in them– over the years.
But her mom always refused, and eventually, she just decided to take the matter into her own hands.
One day, she began to gradually place stickers over just her face in family photos. And to her surprise, her mother never noticed.
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Then, she decided to kick her efforts up a notch in a more extreme way. First, she scanned the original family photos onto her phone.
And afterward, she actually paid one of her friends to photoshop herself out of them.
According to her, the photoshopped versions were pretty obviously photoshopped. Still, she was hoping that nobody would notice from a quick glance– and she was right, for a while.
She got away with two photo swaps at her mother’s house before she got caught in the act a third time. And when her mom saw what she was doing, her mom was furious.
Her mother claimed that she had no right to take the pictures or vandalize the others since it was not her house.
“But, I pointed out that I only took my photos and only put removable stickers on the others,” she said.
Still, her mom did not care. In fact, her mother was actually so angry that she got banned from her mom’s house until she gave the original photos back.
On top of that, the rest of her family has also begun pressuring her to just hand over the photos since, after all, Thanksgiving is right around the corner.
Despite that, though, she still refuses– and believes that her mother might just be resentful of her weight loss.
Apparently, her mother is obese and, ever since she lost the weight, has made “weird comments” about her journey– like calling her vein or claiming she is stroking her ego.
“Another time, my mom insisted on giving me a coat that was three times too big. And when I said no, she asked if I was too good for it,” she recalled.
So, she honestly does not feel bad about removing her pre-weight loss photos and doing what makes her feel most comfortable.
At the same time, though, her mother’s comments– and the pressure from her family members– have forced her to wonder if refusing to apologize and give back the original photos is a jerky thing to do.
Can you understand why she wants the photos removed from her mother’s house or not? What about the flip side– does it make sense why her mother would want the original photos or is her mom being unreasonable? If you were in her shoes, how would you navigate this situation?
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