Today, my mum read a forwarded email, and is now convinced that eating processed food will make my ovaries shrink and disappear. Now she goes batshit crazy if she sees me eating potato chips. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I asked my mom if she could include mashed potatoes and gravy with dinner. She then went on to yell at me about my "unhealthy eating habits" and how I've "gained a lot of weight in the past few months". I'm pregnant. FML
Today, my mother insists that because I won’t eat my dad’s mashed potatoes, it means I must think he is a bad cook and that I'm a disrespectful little prick. I wouldn’t touch mashed potatoes even if Gordon Ramsay made them, and I was on the brink of starvation. FML
Today, my morbidly obese mother gave me an angry lecture at dinner, saying without any trace of irony that my vegetarian diet is "unhealthy and utterly unacceptable". FML
Today, my mum was saying she needs to gain weight because she was underweight according to her doctor. She then said she's going to eat like me in order to gain more weight. FML
Today, my mom found a new fad, and now styles herself as some kind of modern druid. Normally I'd just roll my eyes and deal with it, except she's forced the entire family to go vegetarian, threatening harsh punishments if we refuse to stop "poisoning" our bodies. FML
Today, I decided I need help, so I confessed to my mother that I'm bulimic. After she looked it up online she started screaming at me for "Wasting food that I'm not paying for." FML
Today, I found out my mom intentionally puts extra butter and oil in the food she cooks for me because she wants me to be fatter than her. FML
Today, I'm staying with my mother for a week. Every time I eat something, she tells me that it's "swimsuit season" and that I need to eat less. Every time I say I'm not hungry, she panics and insists I have an eating disorder. I can't win. FML
Today, my mom asked me if I had an eating problem because I've been eating less. I only started eating less because she told me I ate too much. FML
Today, my mom went on a rant about how insulin and other diabetic medications are evil western poisons, and that she can control her condition naturally on her own. That would be great, if she actually ate right and exercised instead of just using meditation to “think” herself healthy. FML
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Top comments
SilverInGray 25
Emailed information is always correct though.
cradle6 13
Oh Jesus, your mom wants you to eat healthier. How horrible. I'm sorry OP.
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Comments (103)
asherm 15
Nope, they still work even eating chips, but glad I didn't try that for birth control method
rockvixen 0
my mom is confident that whenever I drink cold water it will get me sick and cause cancer. I totally understand how you feel.
taazer 12
That's how you live healthy!
sat123 12
My mother used to forward me those types of emails. If you reply-all with the link to the Snopes article, quoting the most condescendingly disproving paragraph from the article, people get the point and stop forwarding crap to you.
nanner6206 24
I always do that. You're right, I rarely get the ridiculous emails now.
E_Hellknight 3
People like OP's mom should not be on the internet. I don't care how old she is, how new to the web she is, or if she needs the internet for her job or something. No excuses. These types of gullible peoples should not be on the web. They just fuel the chain email starters, the scammers, and the "YOU ARE THE 1,000,000 VISITOR" advertisers. Disconnect her modem. If she believes these types of chain emails, there is a 99.9% chance that she won't be able to fix it. (Until she calls tech support.)
schmidty101 0
Batshit crazy.... Hmmmm...
aarslap 5
Why is everyone's mother on this site extremely dumb or has a bad sickness? I know this is FML but it keeps amazing me..
mikeysayhay 0
I only laughed at this because it said 'batshit.' Teehee!
SirGhostly 4
one word - snopes.
Kalipczo 21
So she thinks salt and potatoes will shrink your ovaries?