She Accidentally Made Her Teen Daughter’s Friend Feel Fat, Even Though She Went Above And Beyond For Her
Sometimes, you do a good deed, and it ends up backfiring right in your face. All this mom wanted was to make her daughter’s friend feel safe and comfortable in her home, but in trying to help, she wound up insulting the girl.
Now she’s left second-guessing everything, wondering how something intended as an act of kindness evolved into something so hurtful.
This mom has a 15-year-old daughter who became friends with a girl named Aria not too long ago. Funny enough, she was friendly with Aria’s mom back in high school, so she was thrilled about this friendship.
One day, Aria was at her house with her daughter when the girls said they wanted to walk down to their local 7-Eleven to get some Slurpees.
While the girls were walking, it began to pour rain without warning. Upon arriving back at the house, the girls’ clothing was soaked through, so they had to change.
“Here’s where things got tricky. My daughter is really petite, barely 5 feet tall and around 90 pounds. All her clothes are size XXS, youth medium or large, and size 0,” she explained.
“Aria is a bit taller and more muscular than my daughter. She’s not fat at all, just built differently. When they got back, my daughter tried everything to find something Aria could wear, but nothing fit. I could tell both girls were feeling really uncomfortable and on the verge of tears.”
“I didn’t want Aria to feel embarrassed or stuck wearing clothes that didn’t fit, so I quickly drove to a nearby garage store and spent just over 100 dollars on a hoodie in size medium and sweatpants in size small.”
She hurried home, gave Aria the outfit, and said she could absolutely keep it. Aria was set to stay at their house until midnight, so she wanted her to be at ease.
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Aria said thank you for the clothes, but she could tell there was still tension for the remainder of the night over what had happened earlier.
The following day, she got up and saw that Aria’s mom had sent her a lengthy text message, accusing her of humiliating Aria and making her feel fat.
She wasn’t trying to make Aria feel bad about her body at all; she went out and bought her clothes after all. Aria’s mom argued that Aria could have squeezed into her daughter’s clothing, so since she didn’t do that, Aria’s mom said she body-shamed the girl.
“I just apologized, even though my heart was in the right place. To be honest, I also didn’t want my daughter’s clothes stretched out,” she continued.
“She bought a lot of them with her own money, and I wanted them to last. Now I feel really bad and wonder if I unintentionally made Aria feel like she was fat, even though I don’t think that at all.”
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