AITA for Clapping Back at My Skinny Friend Who’s Constantly Fat-Shaming Me?
Gather ‘round, dear readers, as I regale you with a tale of teenage drama, skinny insecurities, and a sassy showdown! You see, this story originally erupted on Reddit—a digital colosseum where modern gladiators fight their battles anonymously—but it’s too juicy to stay confined to the comments section.
Meet our protagonist, who we’ll call, oh, let’s say, Cindy. Cindy’s 17, fierce, and living large—literally. Unlike your gym-obsessed cousin who counts macros and won’t shut up about CrossFit, Cindy’s happy in her skin. She’s embraced the fierce at any size mantra, and quite frankly, good for her! Unfortunately, we can’t say the same for her skinny friend, Maria.
Maria, ah Maria—less Serena Williams, more Olive Oyl. Perpetually fretting about her tiny waist and non-existent love handles, she’s the type who asks, “Do I look fat in this?” while wearing a string bikini—or worse, in front of friends who are actually struggling with their weight.
Now, imagine enduring this for weeks on end. Every lunchtime it’s the same Broadway number: “Am I getting fat? Oh, I can’t possibly eat THAT much,” followed by her promptly discarding whatever morsel she has on her plate. Now don’t get me wrong, having insecurities is fine—everybody’s got ‘em—but the constant fishing for compliments and thinly-veiled jabs at Cindy’s size? Oh honey, we’ve got a recipe for disaster here!
Fate, destiny, or whatever you want to call it, set the stage for our climactic moment. Our heroine Cindy, despite being repeatedly attacked on her weight, hadn’t retaliated. But it all came to a head when Miss Maria, like a poor-man’s Regina George in
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Hi, me and my friend are both 17F btw.
I’m obese, nearly morbidly obese according to the internet. I don’t really care about that stuff because I think self love is more important and Im happy with my weight, but it’s kinda an important part.
My friend Maria is average, if not quite skinny. She’s made fun of my weight before, but she always says it’s just a joke.
She constantly asks everyone in her friend group if she’s fat, I understand being insecure but it’s genuinely really excess and it’s weekly while we’re eating lunch at this point. She never eats her lunch and always throws it away, then points to mine and tells me that im eating so much and that even half of that would fill her up.
She’s said this everyday for the past 3 or 4 months. I don’t think she’s on a diet or anything either she just makes weird comments like that a lot.
Today she asked to try my jacket on because she was cold, I thought she was actually cold but after she said “oh my god this is so huge on me … does this actually fit you” obviously im paraphrasing i don’t remember exactly, but my other friends started to laugh. I told her that she does look fat, and she looks fatter than me.
And that my jacket fits her really well.
She got quiet and changed the subject, but tonight she messaged me and asked me why I would say that when I know she’s insecure. I told her that Im tired of her fishing for compliments and being rude to me because of my weight.
She said that Im just jealous of her and she left me on seen. I asked my parents for advice but they agree with her and think I was very rude, but I don’t know how else I would’ve made it stop