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He Says I'm Fat!

May 28, 2001

What do you say when your boyfriend thinks you are on the heavy side?

By Carmen Chan

"You better start losing weight. You're getting fat."

Those few words are so powerful especially when they are said to a woman. Say it to a man, and he thinks nothing of it.

It is an unwritten rule that if a man loves a woman, he should erase the word 'fat' from his vocabulary. Or else he ends up bearing the consequences of hours of complaining or sleeping on the couch.

Some girls would just walk out the door and never turn back if their man ever said they were fat.

And rightly so. The bottom line is that if a man doesn't accept you for whatever shape or size you are, you walk.

I'm not saying you dump him if he ever utters the 'f' word.

Men aren't the most eloquent creatures on earth so forgiveness is in order if he just happens to slip up that you're gaining that extra bit of weight.

The real problem is when he keeps harping on the fact that your love handles are so grotesque that he can't take you to out for dinner and your body should look more like Christy Turlington's.

What's worse, he frequently compares your figure to Roseanne Barr's.

If it hurts you constantly because he says it constantly, dump the loser.

If he apologises profusely for saying it, make him camp out on the sofa for a night and then forgive him in the morning.

The crunch: Don't be caught speechless or all flustered, flushed with anger mixed with feelings of inadequacy.

Rise above those words with these 10 short, sharp and straight rebuttals that will send your man scurrying away in shame.

10 Things To Say Back

He says you're fat. You say:

I'm protecting my investment.
You're the only extra weight that I'm carrying around.
The only fat that I see being put around here is the one that is going to your brains, so much so that it has rendered you stupid.
My new role model is Sophie Dahl. You don't know who she is? You see I'd rather be fat than be stupid and ignorant like you.
Oh I'm sorry. I didn't know that you were advertising for a skinny girlfriend when I applied for the position.
(Make up an exotic guys name) e.g Salvatore from the office likes me this way! He thinks I'm drop-dead sexy.
Comment on his looks. E.g. Wow, that's a really huge zit on your face. I'd rather be obese than have acne like that! Disgusting!
The doctor's advice to me was to put on weight. His advice to you was to have your head examined. Here's the name card of a good psychiatrist he recommended.
I deliberately put on the extra weight so that I could have the strength to knock you around and punch you till you're black and blue.
I'm pregnant.

So arm yourself with these rebuttals; it's a fat chance that he'll ever dare say those words again.

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