She Freaked Out At A 6th Grade Graduation Party After She Heard One of The Moms Fat Shame Her Daughter In Front of Everyone Else
Has your mom ever embarrassed you in public? Did she ever embarrass you regarding your appearance?
One woman recently had an outburst at a kids’ graduation party after listening to one of the moms fat-shame her daughter in front of everyone.
She was recently a chaperone at a 6th grade graduation party at a local elementary school. Around a hundred students were in attendance, as well as teachers, parents, and more volunteer staff.
One of the mothers in attendance brought her two twin girls, Maddie and Katie.
Maddie and Katie were both average heights, but Katie was a bit heavier than Maddie. Unfortunately, it became obvious that this difference bothered their mom, who made comments about Katie’s eating habits and tried to control what she ate throughout the entire night.
When the food at the party was served, the twins’ mother began to freak out when she saw Katie pick up a cupcake. In front of everyone, she scolded Katie and told her to cut the cupcake in half.
“Katie did as her mother requested, and when she started to eat the remaining half of the cupcake, her mom immediately told her to wipe off the icing first,” she recalled.
“Maddie was permitted to eat a whole cupcake with all the icing without their mother saying anything.”
Then, as the twins were eating pizza with her friends, their mom seemed astonished when Katie went to get another slice and confronted her about it. As Katie tried to get some potato salad during the evening, her mom tried to grab the serving spoon from her hands.
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When ice cream was being served at the end of the night, the twins’ mom told Katie that ice cream was unhealthy and fattening and that she couldn’t have any until she lost ten pounds. Then, she turned to Katie and told her she was skinny enough to eat ice cream.
“This conversation was loud enough that at least a dozen other kids were able to hear it,” she explained.
“Enough was enough. I immediately confronted the twins’ mother and very loudly said that she was bullying and humiliating her child [and] that if Katie developed an eating disorder, it would be her fault.”
When she got home that night and told her husband what happened, he told her that she shouldn’t have gotten involved because it wasn’t her business. He said that, at the very least, she should have avoided scolding that woman so publicly and undermining her parental authority in front of her kids.
“I disagreed,” she said.
“Since she was so publicly criticizing and humiliating Katie, I believe it was fitting that I stood up for Katie in an equally public manner.”
Was she wrong to scold that woman in public, or did she do right by Katie?
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