'I get skinny-shamed as a size 8 new mum by judgey women – imagine if I criticised someone with rolls of fat'
WHEN new mum Alice Foster, 21, gave birth last year she was looking forward to support from other women – yet for the youth social worker nothing could be further from the truth.
Alice, who lives in Waltham Cross, Herts., with her partner and their one-year-old son Riley, continued: “Ever since I had my son other women think it's okay to criticise me and pick on me about my weight. “After school I’d have crisps and chocolate. I couldn’t eat just one slice of toast when I got in I’d have four pieces. I’d drink gallons of orange juice which is basically liquid sugar.“As I got older I got more cautious about what I ate and lost my unhealthy relationship with food.“Now I’m a mum and working full time, eating isn’t the first thing I do anymore. I don’t have time to snack either.”
I don’t distraction eat. I don’t pig out on snacks. We don’t have a treat drawer in our house either.“But imagine how an overweight mum would react if I told her she looked like she ate too much and launched into a speech on what she needed to do to cut back?” “Last October we went to Spain. I was so looking forward to the break. I’d packed a couple of bikinis too. Within days another mum came up to me and said, 'Your bones are on show.'Alice says her biggest critics are womenYet Alice reckons her biggest critics are the women who are supposed to support one another at the toddler and baby groups.
“Us women are our own worst enemies. I’d wear baggy clothes when I was bigger to hide my muffin top. Now I’m wearing them to hide my flat tummy. But it's easier than putting up with the comments and the OTT looks.I'd never dream of putting another woman down. Why is it ok to talk to me like this?
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