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I think a lady at work accidentally called me chunky today.

So, two weeks ago my boss's dad's new wife asked my boss if I was pg and my boss lied and said no since she didn't know if I would want her to know.

Fast forward to today (she's been told in the interim by my boss since I said it was fine) and she comes up to me and is like "I KNEW you were pregnant. The way the light hit you one day I totally saw a pouch!".

My response was, "Ummm...I'm only 7 weeks pregnant. I'm not showing at all. Two weeks ago I definitely wasn't showing. That pouch is my normal stomach. It's my problem area".

She just looked at me funny and said "Oh, no I saw a pouch! It was there, but not anymore".

Yeah, right! I think she put her foot in her mouth!

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Re: I think a lady at work accidentally called me chunky today.

  • Meh, sounds like she's just one of those "know it all" types.  That needs to be "in the loop" even if it means putting her foot in her mouth.

    I am sure you look fantastic and don't have a chucky anything! 

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  • Honestly, I do have a pouch and have for like 6 years. I avoid certain clothes because I know they make me look pregnant even when I wasn't. I just found it hilarous that she was essentially telling me that I look pregnant when I'm not even a smidgen bigger.

    Probably doesn't help that I think she's a moron in general!

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  • Sounds like a jerk thing to have said.
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  • You are not chunky! There are crazy people like that. There was this one lady at church that came up to me once and touched my belly and asked "how far along are you?" umm yeah. "i'm not pregnant." She had no idea what to say next.
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  • haha you are not chunky by any means and you're right when you were 5 weeks you wouldn't even be bloated yet.

    There's a lady here that swears up and down even though she's never been pregnant or around many pregnant women that last time she knew early and this time she thought I was a few months before I was...I'm like yah ok!

     

    Some people just HAVE to feel like they knew before everyone else and not sure why haha

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  • Wowza. You look amazing, as ever, and she's a butt for pointing out the slightest of bump that's normally there. I gained about 1lb in my short term, and I had everyone under the sun coming up to me and asking if I was pregnant. Maybe you just glowed :) It was you, not the sun that caught her eye!
  • i agree with cole and va. i think she wants to be that person who is like "i knew it!!!" and as far as pooches go (i call it a pooch), i don't know many women who don't have that. we are designed to have an extra layer of fat over our reproductive organs to protect them. this lady did something similar to me at yoga. i didn't even know her and she asked me if i was pregnant. i said no. then she further stuck her foot in it and said "were you recently?" what an ass. i was like, "NOOOOO!!!"
    Me:39 Dx LPD, Fibroid, AMA and all that goes with that. H:37 Dx low motility and low morphology. TTC since 3/12. Clomid 8/12 and 9/12: BFN. 11/12 on a break for Myomectomy sched. 11/26. Resume TTC early 2013.
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    i agree with cole and va. i think she wants to be that person who is like "i knew it!!!" and as far as pooches go (i call it a pooch), i don't know many women who don't have that. we are designed to have an extra layer of fat over our reproductive organs to protect them. this lady did something similar to me at yoga. i didn't even know her and she asked me if i was pregnant. i said no. then she further stuck her foot in it and said "were you recently?" what an ass. i was like, "NOOOOO!!!"

    I call it a pooch too. I have no idea why I was typing pouch the whole time, LOL!

    I hate the stranger "are you pregnant" question. I've only gotten it once about 4 years ago from an older lady. She rubbed her tummy and then said "So, you're a little bit pregnant, right?". I just stood there stunned, no response, no nothing. She finally walked off and I think I still just stood there for a solid minute. Awkward!!

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  • Isn't there a rule somewhere that says never never never ask a lady if she's pregnant unless the baby is literally coming out?!?  I've been asked it one, and I responded with, "no, I'm just fat." 
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