Today, my mother-in-lawyer threatened to sue me unless I took my professional wedding photographs off Facebook, as she didn't like that they made her look fat. She is over 300 pounds. FML
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Today, I found out my mother-in-law is trying to force me to lose weight, even though I am trying, and have a medical condition. FML
Today, my sister told me she didn’t want me in her wedding pictures because I looked fat in my bridesmaid's dress. FML
Today, my future mother-in-law started shit-talking me on Facebook, and we got into a heated argument. She called me later in the day, saying I'll be lucky if I ever marry her son and that, "You'll suffer to your last breath." I'm now terrified to set foot outside. FML
Today, my future mother-in-law tried to blackmail me out of the wedding with photographs of me with another man. Her son and I met on a swingers website and we both have multiple sexual partners, so we had to tell her the truth. Awkward doesn’t begin to describe it. FML
Today, a 300 lb woman caused a huge scene at the public pool where I work. She accused me of fatshaming and swore to sue me for discrimination. I asked her to cover up, as her 3x too small string bikini went against the pool’s dress code. I don’t make the rules, I just have to enforce them. FML
Today, I was subpoenaed on behalf of my mother-in-law. My husband said if I didn't defend her and consequently lie under oath, our marriage is over. She said, "I can get rid of two problems in one day!" FML
Today, when my mother-in-law told me I was losing weight, my husband started laughing. FML
Today, I spent thirty minutes on the phone with my best friend's mom, because her daughter was too afraid to tell me that I'm no longer a bridesmaid at her wedding because I'm too fat. FML
Today, my lawyer threatened to sue me because I can't afford his bill, which he sent to me after getting me out of a lawsuit. FML
Today, on Facebook, my sister posted a ton of photos of herself wearing a skimpy bikini, commenting that she looked hideous and fat. I can't stand attention-seeking fuckballs, so I called her on it. My mother then condemned me for "mocking" my sister, and grounded me for an entire month. FML
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SilentScreamer 12
She's a huge bitch.
nyrangersfan9 13
You can use a feature on Facebook that blocks a certain person from viewing a specific picture. Try that maybe?
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Comments (230)
17This_Is_Me17 8
She can't sue you for her being fat . Keep the pics up , FYL
Corrupt_waffles 13
But she CAN sit on you by being fat. Be very careful OP.
AestheticGuy 21
Yes but OP can run while the fat bitch clearly can't, unless she curls into a ball and rolls down like a falling boulder..
SmilieAKD 20
How many photos is she in? Can you take down the ones that prominently feature her? Maybe get her to agree to let you leave up the group shots of the bridal party if any of them have her in it. I can understand were she's coming from. I absolutely hate when people post pictures of me on Facebook. That's why I try not to let people take pictures of me with phones or cameras because eventually it always seems to end up on Facebook. Personally, I don't think I would have gone straight to threatening lawsuits but I might have asked you nicely to takedown any photos that I practically didn't like. I know she didn't handle the situation very well OP but this woman is your new mother- in- law I would be careful of burning too many bridges with her. See if you can't come to some kind of compromise. Talk about and maybe see if there are some pictures you both agree should be taken down. Hey, tell her you think she looks great in all of them and she might let you keep them all up. I'm just saying you might not want to piss her off this much so soon.
jhs578650 9
@27 I don't know about you, but when someone threatens me with legal action (or illegal action), I consider the bridge burned.
littlem91 29
I'm sorry, you're saying you'd go to a friend or family members wedding, them try and tell them which photos of their wedding are allowed to be shown and where?! No, being photographed is to be expected at a wedding, either suck it up or don't go.
dawnimus 21
@27 untag yourself and deal with it. Or are you so self obsessed that you think that anyone other than you gives a shit what you look like in the background of someone else's photo?
queerdragon 20
I would understand if it was a candid shot that was embarrassing, but these are professional pictures. There is a difference between being upset someone put an ugly shot you didn't offer to pose for, but... really? When we did wedding pictures for my sister, it took two hours. During any point during the pictures the mother-in-law could have said, "I don't want to be in the pictures because I feel fat." You would think if she was that sensitive she would not have posed in them at all. Because really, you know with social media someone is going to post their wedding pictures.
SmilieAKD 20
@ 36 This is the mother of her husband. Someone she is going to have to deal with as long as she is married. So unless she's planning on divorcing her husband anytime soon. It's best to forgive & forget especially when it comes to family. People say things they don't mean when they are hurt, angry, & humiliated. I feel really sorry for every one around if you're seriously this unforgiving. I hope for your own family's sake that you aren't and that if any of them are still talking to you you're willing to forgive them the minor slights they don't really mean.
jhs578650 9
@95 The golden rule: Treat others how you would want others to treat you. Given that rule, I must assume that how people treat me is how they want me to treat them. I am kind by default, right up until someone is unkind to me. Yes I can forgive, but I am not going to go out of my way to befriend someone who insists on being my enemy. As for the OP's husband, if he took the traditional vows then he vowed to forsake all others for the OP. "All others" includes his mother. I would argue that if the mother-in-law wants to foster a good relationship then she needs to be the one to mend the bridge, because she is the one who burned it in the first place.
SmilieAKD 20
@ 64 I agree with you totally as long as she was warned that they were going to be posted to Facebook beforehand. There is a huge difference between appearing in pictures that go in some album that sits on a shelf somewhere and is only pulled out on special occasions versus being posted on Facebook for the whole world to see 24/7.
jhs578650 9
@98 It is 2013. It should be expected that any life event pictures (read: wedding photos) are going to end up on some form of social media.
jhs578650 9
@97 I realize that I made an unintentional assumption regarding the gender of the OP in my previous comment. My statement regarding the wedding vows should have referenced the OP's spouse, not husband.
SmilieAKD 20
@ 101 That's fine for someone of the of the current and future generations. It's not fair to expect someone from an earlier generation who didn't grow up with Facebook and our current level of technology to automatically make that assumption. Now I don't know how old OP's mother-in-law is but there's a good chance this applies to her.
jhs578650 9
@108 People in the previous generations haven't been living in caves for the last twenty years. Some people might not know their way around a computer, but it is fair to say that most people alive today probably at least know of the existence of the Internet. Clearly the mother-in-law in question knows about Facebook, because she saw the pictures there. We can infer from that information that she must either have a Facebook account herself, or she is in close contact with someone who does. In either case, she should assume that life event pictures like the OP's wedding photos are going to be posted there.
charlotte69er 7
At least she admits her fatness
Fedezzer 20
It's not the photos. It's the layers of excess body mass filling her large clothes.
cougar41 8
That was your chance to tell her to look in a mirror
thisguyian 8
'Murica!
DKjazz 20
Let her sue. Somehow, I don't think she'll win this case.
sugarbear0727 19
Tell her she's being selfish. If she thought photos would make her look fat, she shouldn't have participated in any of the photos. That was your wedding, not hers. She has no legal right to try and sue you because she's a big fat bitch. If this ends up where you don't ever speak to her again, good riddance. You don't want someone like that to come to your house for any holiday celebration, cause all she'll ever do is complain about how she looks fat in all the photos. Best to keep her away.
bahamut357 16
Not to mention that she'll likely eat everything at said functions while she bitches :p
TheDrifter 23
And complain about the lack of diet soda to go with said meals (after she has gone through the first gallon you had).
TogeBara 12
Edit the photos (only the ones on Facebook) so that it just shows a big spot where she was and put the text, "my fat ass bitchy mother in law goes here" where she is supposed to be. If she has any issue she can screw off because legally as long as you aren't showing her face she can't say or do anything. You could also take her to court, have a doctor show up as an expert witness, and ask him point blank if medically she is considered fat. When he says yes have your lawyer motion to counter sue for court fees and other expenses cause by this "gross misuse of the justice system." Another tactic would be to claim that she didn't have to join in the photos and it isn't your fault that she decided to join your family to have her picture taken. Don't let this go OP, stupidity deserves every bit of pain and suffering that comes it's way.
worldclassrager 39
If she does Facebook is pubic domain...she can't get a dime from you.,,