Today, I finished a ballet class with a group of seven-and-unders. Afterwards, a new student's mother came up to me and thanked me, saying she was glad that her daughter had a "role model with a, ahem, fuller figure" and "not to worry about my weight." I have never thought I was fat before. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mum came to my ballet class. She spent the whole lesson sitting at the back yelling at me to, "Stop sticking your butt out!" My ballet instructor had to ask her several times to pipe down. FML
Today, a friend of mine commented that I "have a lot of confidence for a fat girl". Ummm... thanks? FML
Today, at school, one of my students confidently told me that I "wasn't hiding my baby bump very well anymore." I'm not pregnant. Just fat, apparently. FML
Today, my 6-year-old daughter walked into the bathroom where I was grumbling about my weight. Seeing how upset I was, she took my hand and said, "Mom, you're not fat. You just look fat." FML
Today, I was watching my 7 year-old daughter and her friend jump on our trampoline. I was really impressed by all the flips they were doing, and I told her, "Hey! I can't even do that." To that her friend replied, "Of course you can't. You're fat!" FML
Today, I went to my parents' house. I recently lost about 30 lbs. My mom hugged me and said, "Aww, you're not my chubby baby girl anymore." She then said she wished I were still fat because she missed it. She's the reason I lost the weight; she used to tease and taunt me. Thanks Mom. FML
Today, due to family, job, health, and pregnancy issues, I didn't dance in the past decade, but recently started doing my favourite classical dance again. In this decade, I've more than tripled in weight and can't recognise myself in the mirror or in videos. I'm still in a healthy BMI but feel so fat. FML
Today, my son was looking through old photos and showed me a picture of myself and asked who it was. When I told him it was me, he responded by saying "But mommy, the lady in the picture is not fat!" FML
Today, I took the kids to the pool. I'm short and 20lbs overweight but they talked me into it and I put on a swimsuit for the first time in 10 years. As soon as we got there, a girl my height but a good 150lbs heavier said, "It's so nice to see another big girl in a two-piece!" FML
Today, I was at the local theatre watching "The Nutcracker" ballet with my mother. When the prince made his appearance in his tights my mother leans over to me and says, "Those are some well defined butt cheeks!" loud enough for everyone around us to hear. FML
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Chantallika 0
You know, from a ballet standpoint, a lot of the woman are sticks. Maybe you just have a curvy figure, and she's happy her daughter can look up to someone with curvy hips instead of a coat hanger.
AnakinWanders 0
If you don't think you're fat then don't worry.
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Comments (127)
MrCanoe 5
I think she just meant that your not one of those twiggy anorexic 80lbs soaking wet ballerinas and she was complementing you on your "fullier" figure which just means your healthy looking
intrepid00 0
You could just be healthy looking and not look like you came out of a Nazi camp. Like a lot dancers look like.
divineinstrument 2
God not another FML about being called fat... Anyway you shouldn't worry. People have different ideas about what fat is. The media's always flagging Beyonce as a "fuller figure", and yet she looks moderately thin to me.
CL41RE 0
You guys are wrong about ballet. Have you ever been in it or seen it? Everyone in my class is fuller than me and doesn't judge each other on our weight. Maybe that's your place that does that. I m sorry to hear that.
plexico 4
Hey, CL41RE, Remember the FML about the girl whose bf wrote her a love poem with the wrong name in it? I put in a dirty limerick and you asked me if I wrote it. I said that I didn't and you sounded disappointed. Well, just for you, I wrote an original dirty limerick around the OP's name. I hope you will go back and check it out, and I also hope you like that one, too.
fenrisulfr 0
don't worry about it, if you never thought of yourself as fat, you are not.
Saiduck 0
don't worry about it. the new mother probably thinks all ballet dancers should be skeletons like the runway models.
look_n_laugh 0
she might have just meant you have big **** lol, not really am FML unless your way too sensitive about that thing, considering i can't imagine a fat person being able to do ballet.....
jugglernaut 0
nobody wants to watch zee doncing heepos, except in Fantasia!
x_Leopard_x 1
I bet she's happy that her daughter has a role model who's not a size 0 like most people on TV these days. :)
Engineer_Chick 0
Yes anorexia in professional dance is very commen. Hopefully she was giving you praise for not looking sickly ill and skinning as a lot of dancers are.
msw52 0
A fuller figure doesn't necessarily mean that you're fat. She probably just means its good for her daughter to look up to someone with some curves rather than have her daughter try to live up to the ridiculous expectations that society puts on little girls. If you like your body, then don't worry about what she may or may not have meant by it.
Moemoemoe_fml 0
This would be true if not for her adding the "don't worry about your weight!" at the end, which indicates the mother does indeed believes the teacher is fat, and is just saying the fuller figure thing because she thinks it's best for her daughter to not be stuck with society's views of thin or fat......even though she personally still admits that the teacher is fat. In other words, the mother's beliefs and application of it to parenting are dubious, which is worrisome for her kid, and... and she still does thinks the teacher is fat. It's pretty much an FTL for all involved.