This isn’t really a story but more of a rant about my mom. She’s been overweight my whole life and I think right now she stands at 250 lbs which is pretty big for her 5’1/5’2 frame. The other night I was over at her and my stepdads house and we were watching Impractical Jokers. If you haven’t seen it yet it’s this show revolving around a group of guy friends that go out in New York and prank people, I think it’s hilarious I’ve been watching it for years.

This one episode we were watching had the guys at a store kind of like a Walmart or Target. The guys were doing this prank in pairs and it basically consisted of one of the guys in the pair taking the blame for whatever the other guy in the pair did while out in the aisles, it would be something embarrassing like popping a balloon behind someone’s head and the other guy saying it was him. So this one scene shows one of the guys taking a picture of the back of a women’s head while she’s bending down looking for beanies but the flash is on so it was obvious a picture was being taken of her.

The other guy who has to take the fall immediately gets behind her with his phone and when she turns around he’s like “I’m sorry, you’re just so pretty” then kinda cringes at what he says cuz he realized how creepy that sounded. But after that happened my mom was like “If he said that I think I’d be like “Oh ok” and just smile at him” and she was being completely serious. I told her that that was creepy and that I don’t know why she thought that would be flattering if it happened in real life.

Then in another episode they were doing one of the challenges in a food court and one of the women sitting down in the food court that they had talked to was fat. When my mom saw her she was like “I think she’s cute dont you guys?” to me and my stepdad. My stepdad didn’t say anything but I was like “No she’s ugly”. Cuz honestly no matter how pretty in the face someone looks, fat is still fat and it doesn’t look good. And tbh even if that specific girl was thin she’d still be average.

That’s not the first time my mom has done that when seeing bigger women on the screen, even if they’re not famous. She has to say how she thinks they’re “cute” cuz their face is pretty even though that’s the biggest cope ever. Also the whole thing about her being ok with a random man taking a picture of her just because he called her pretty is so pathetic and just feeds into the stereotype that fat women are desperate. Which wouldn’t be a false statement when it came to my mom because she’s stayed in a failing marriage for almost 20 years now with someone who calls her names when he’s angry and makes fun of her body.

She also thinks my stepdad controlling things like what she wears or getting jealous of stupid things, the few times he does cuz he doesn’t care that much, is a good thing and like I think she likes that he still gets jealous? Never in my life will I let a man control what I do, I had a taste of that in my last relationship and it was horrible. Not cute and definitely not something I ever want to experience again. It’s just pathetic, I hate that she’s like this because her self esteem is so low. Being fat isn’t attractive and she just wants to trick herself into believing it is. Sorry this wasn’t really a fat person story and more of a venting session.