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- A woman says her mother-in-law is “body shaming” her 15-year-old daughter
- In a post shared to Reddit, the woman detailed how her mother-in-law recently took her daughter on a shopping trip, and it did not go well
- Her daughter, she writes, “picks out a dress, and her grandmother tells her not to gain another pound or it wouldn’t fit”
A woman says her mother-in-law is “body shaming” her 15-year-old daughter.
In a post shared to Reddit, the woman detailed how her mother-in-law recently took her daughter on a shopping trip, and it did not go well.
Her daughter, she writes, “picks out a dress, and her grandmother tells her not to gain another pound or it wouldn’t fit. Then, they’re leaving the store, and grandma adds that she hopes [her daughter] doesn’t take after her mother and older sister with our big hips.”
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The post continues: “I’m livid. This isn’t the first time she’s commented on the girls clothing sizes in a negative way, and she also does a lot of calorie shaming and whatnot in front of the kids. [My husband] has told her before to STOP it with the body shaming and food drama, but she has not stopped. This was the last straw because it was so overtly awful.”
When the mother-in-law was confronted about her behavior, she called her son, making a “quick apology” before immediately “freaking out.”
“She claimed that [my daughter] didn’t understand what she really meant. Was offended that she told us what she said—’Do I need to micromanage everything I say to her in case she repeats it to you?’ and then told [my husband] that she wouldn’t grab them any more clothes and would just send over money and didn’t want him coming over to ‘reprimand’ her,” she writes.
She continues: “Going forward, we remain open to talking to her again if she shows remorse and proves a sincere effort to improve. I am extremely pessimistic that this will happen.”
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Other Reddit users are weighing in on the situation in the comments, with one writing, “If your MIL refuses to even discuss her problematic behavior, you’d be enabling her if you didn’t impose any consequences. And your MIL would likely only expand her inappropriate comments to your daughter, likely blaming her for sharing with you.”
Adds another: “I would severely restrict her visit times and continue doing so until she proved she’s changed. Her refusing to have a real discussion shows she has zero intent to change.”
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