"You're So Skinny...

...you have to run around in the shower to get wet."

That is my best friend's favorite joke about me. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone else has any funny or mean things people have said to them about being thin or underweight.

Mudcakebakery, you totally made my day. Go you! 

I've always been really small, and I have a really healthy diet, don't get me wrong, SOMEtimes I'll let myself slip. Say if I'm in Italy or something and they have awesome homemade gelatto... of course I'm not going to say no to that! But usually I just don't like to eat oh you know, useless fattening foods like cookies made in the grocery store. I'd eat a home made cookie, because there's a purpose to it and someone I know worked to make it. I just don't think eating anything that's not going to do me good is worth it unless it really is. So whenever I visit my family and they have all these packaged candies and cookies and they ask me if I want one I just simply say "no thanks" & now they're all worried about me like I'm annorexic!? All of my family is so uneducated about things, things in 2009 aren't the same way as they were in 1940. They try to feed me ice cream, and cookies, and cake, and pie. I don't like that stuff. I don't enjoy eating it, they don't understand that I can get all my calories that I need eating things that aren't known as "junk foods". They all think I'm sick in the head for being healthy.

omg im new to the site and  your comment is so true. I told my boyfriend the other day how insensitive people are to those that are skinny.

One day my brother, me, and a few of his friends were out eating breakfast. This was pre-ED, so I would only allow myself a certain tiny portion of my food, the rest I put on my brother's plate. One of his friends saw me do this and said "No! You need those pancakes, they'll make your boobs grow!" He then later tried to get get me to eat a candy bar because "it would go straight to my ass" >_>.

A girl in my PE class likes to grab my arm and point out where my bones stick out, saying how I'm the skinniest person she knows/ has ever seen.

A guy in my science class has decided to just call me "no ass".

Random comments I've gotten:

"Here's a donut, you need it"

"You'd look great if you weren't so bony"

"Good god you're too skinny!"

"So are you sick or something?"

"You make skeletons look fat."

And many more I can't think of at the moment. I don't understand why people make comments like those and think they aren't as bad as getting called fat or something :/.

I think people should leave their comments to themselves.Regardless thin,overweight,average etc. The world would be a nicer place with less comments and judgment. Also you never know what a person may be struggling with it may not be an ed it could be other health problems and that would be a nasty thing to say to someone.

I second the above.

ohmygoodness do i aggree!! i hate the little comments..they are just the thing that make people feel uncomfortable with themselves in the first place!!! i mean think how many people wouldnt go on a diet or skip a meal or something because of people's comments.  Just yesterday my slightly larger than normal guy friend compared me to both nicole richie and paris hilton saying i was skinnier than them...way to crush my spirit of thinkin i was getting better hun!!! It takes a strong person to look past all the comments and just listen to those who actually care and do actions that are healthy. 

Original Post by minie13:

I'm naturally thin and very lean looking.  I eat healthy and enjoy running.  People make rude comments all the time about how skinny I am, ask me if I'm anorexic (which i am not), etc.  I'm not sure why people think its appropriate to comment on a thin person's weight, but not a fat person's weight.  Imagine the response of others if I said something abot someone being OVERweight...but no one bats an eyelash about comments about me being UNDERweight.

This is honestly one of my biggest pet peeves ever.  I hate it.

 OMG we MUST be twins or something. Lol. I too enjoy running and am very lean. I HATE it when people make such comments like that! Gahh! Glad SOMEONE gets it!

last night i went out to a traditional pizza place with my boyfriend. they got my order wrong, and considering it was a huge challenge for me to go out for pizza to begin with, i could only manage 1 slice alongside our starters. the annoying waitress walks by my boyfriend's nearly eaten pizza and mine, laughs and says "what are you anorexic?"

it's always pretty awkward when you have to say "why yes, i am a recovering anorexic."

My bmi used to be around 14-15, and people used to always talk behind my back about "how thin I was". I was anorexic, but it was just annoying because did anyone confront me about it? NO!! They didn't want to help me, they just wanted to gossip ABOUT me.

  Now that my BMI is up to 18.5, I get the opposite. Oh Stephanie, you've gained so much weight! I'm like....jeez i'm still almost underweight, i'm barely hanging onto "healthy". Gahhhh.....

Gosh. I am not at a healthy BMI of about 19 and do not get skinny comments but can I just say….

I cannot BELIEVE it that some people have such TERRIBLE judgment!? I mean, WHY do people, especially staff member at restaurant, feel they can say “ are you anorexic?” I mean HELLO?! It is not just rude, but, in my opinion, people who feel it is normal and acceptable to say that stuff are VERY IGNORANT.

Also, my other pet hate is when anorexics gain weight and people think it is OKAY to comment on it… ummm, NO PEOPLE! It is ALWAYS RUDE to comment on ANY ONES weight!? I cannot fathom why people do not see this!? Such bad manners!

Saying “ wow, you have gained weight” to recovering anorexic is just as rude as commenting on an over weight person who gains weight! It is STUPID to assume that JUST because an anorexic is trying to gain, that they WANT people to comment?

*sigh* people can be stupid.

Oh, and do you know the sick thing? Shop assistants actually COMPLIMENTED me when I was anorexic, and weighed like 100 lbs?! every one thought I was “ lucky” to be so thin, and thought it looked “ nice”

I never got any negative comments, until I was at my worst and even then no one said ANYTHING to my face, people were apparently “ scared” of me behind my back…..

I'm not that small myself, but compared to where I was (210lbs at 5'3"), but now at 120lbs  (a very healthy BMI of 22), I get people making comments all the time, some nice some not so nice.

My boss once asked me if I was eating anything any more and tried to offer me some baklava that had been left over from a big event in our building.

My dad and little brother (both of whom have been over weight for a very long time) called me "Skinny Mini" all the time now, and it drives me up the wall.  The rest of that side of the family is convinced that I'm anorexic, my cousin asks me every time we talk if I am, and says my aunt wants to know.

Its really frustration, and I can't even imagine how it must be for you peeps who have always been naturally thin, high metabolism, ect.  I had to work pretty hard to get to and maintain this weight.

Original Post by omonica:

last night i went out to a traditional pizza place with my boyfriend. they got my order wrong, and considering it was a huge challenge for me to go out for pizza to begin with, i could only manage 1 slice alongside our starters. the annoying waitress walks by my boyfriend's nearly eaten pizza and mine, laughs and says "what are you anorexic?"

it's always pretty awkward when you have to say "why yes, i am a recovering anorexic."

Oh my gosh!  I cannot believe a WAITRESS would say that?!  I am a waitress myself and could never imagine commenting on ANYONE'S weight, let alone asking a question like that!  I will never understand how some people can be so rude!

I had a similar thing happen to me, it's actually the reverse of your situation.  I was waiting on a large party of people in our banquet room one afternoon and a man in the party asked me "how old are you, like 12?"  and I said no, actually I'm 21.  Then he goes "oh, so what are you then, like one of those anorexics?"  That was the worst comment I've received about my weight.  I had no idea how to respond.  In retrospect I wish I would have made a snide comment back, but I was just so shocked that I couldn't think of what to say.

I will never understand why people find it perfectly okay to make comments about those of us who are underweight, but think it's absolutely rude to comment about those who are overweight.  It's the same thing, so if you wouldn't go up to a large person and ask "so, you're pretty fat.  Are you obese?"  then you should realize it's not okay to make similar comments to those of us on the other end of the weight spectrum.

Wow, some of the things people say are horrendous. But sometimes maybe it says more about them than us...

When I was at my thinnest, I got both positive and negative comments. It was very confusing. One woman (who I work with) is on the Cambridge Diet and is losing weight rapidly. She asked me what clothes size I am, said she would love to look like me, and when I said I wanted to gain weight she told me I didn't need to. Sigh. Unfortunately, she is my superior so I couldn't start a rant about how unhealthy being that thin was. I also realised a lot of what she was saying was stemming from her own issues with food/dieting so I tried not to let it get me down.

People have said things like 'You look like you're from Belsen' (concentration camp) etc etc, put their fingers around my upper arms... but I found the negative things motivation to start recovery.

I do find that people say more about my weight than I'm comfortable with, especially at work. There were some jacket potatoes at work, and this one woman was like 'Oh Louise couldn't fit one of those in her stomach!'.... Nice. Constant comments on my smallness/thinness (I'm short too!) can get me down sometimes, particularly as there's an overweight woman in the team and no one ever says anything to her about her weight. But they're always saying it to the underweight people. I really hope one day peoples' attitudes can change and realise that thin does not always equal healthy or happy.

Oh, and if one person comments at work on my weight gain (to a healthy weight!) I will probably get very very angry at them!

So mine arent as bad as all yours but still one time i went to my friends brothers 21st bday party his dads friends. A stranger in his 50s who was really tall and ahem...'round' was staring at me all night. Then i was standing beside one of my friends who's about 3 sizes bigger than me and he KEPT blatantly complimenting HER saying "you looks great" "you've a lovely womanly body" it was so awkward i was just like "yeah she does" then he would start commenting all night saying - 'you need more hot dinners' 'omg your just so...thin. i can fit my hands around your hips' and in the middle of conversations id notice him staring and he'd say 'its just you're so thin' then we were gettin a taxi and there were too many people he said 'sure the taxi driver wont even notice L, she's so small i can fit her in my pocket' - that was the first time i was ever introduced to him!!!!

other recent gems

my boss- at work one day i made a salad or something and he was like "im really glad to see you eating" i was shell-shocked like what do u say back!?!?!?

"you need to put some meat on them bones"

"jesus your so thin, what are u a zero?"

"you look sooo skinny"

or people saying really 'subtly' how guys prefer curves blah blah blah

and i get the random staring where you can TELL what they are thinking. you know when you catch somebody staring at your collarbones etc? Or i find things like if ppl are talking about EDS i start to blush? i dont know why!

this is the worst! i lost about 25lbs. a couple years back, and had everyone looking sideways at me and putting their (unnecessary) two-cents in. "eat more, you never eat, put more food on your plate, you're wasting away!" i am 5'8", around 137lbs., which is right around where i've stayed since that initial (but safe and took a couple months) 25lbs. loss. but - i never was nor am i now "too skinny." in fact, i've gained a couple pounds, and just feel yucky, so i'm looking to lose weight - but, i keep it to myself, because everyone criticizes me for my size already.  i have no support. :( SO LAME, people need to be quiet and realize that saying "you're so skinny! do you have an eating disorder? (even in joking tones)" is NOT complimentary.

great group :)

I once had a woman at work grab the peice of toast I was eating for lunch, covered it in butter and then said 'eat that, you need it!'.

So rude!!!!

Oh dear. I'll have to seriously watch myself from now on then. Having been overweight all my life and only dealing with the mindset of striving to become thinner, I always considered commenting on a friend's thin figure as being a compliment instead of an offense. Though, I've never even thought to say some of the things mentioned in this thread. Sheesh, some people do go way too far. 

I was always on the opposite side of the fence and got mercilessly taunted for being the "fat girl" in school. So, I can see how comments like that would be extremely hurtful.

i can say that i have been on both sides of the fence. i come from an obese family. that being said, i was always a bigger girl...especially in highschool. i was completely envious of the 'skinny' stuck up chics in my class. i longed so very much to be that size, but alas...accepted my role as being larger. i could take a joke with the best of them, and was teased horribly about it. kids can be soooooooo mean!!! i have ALWAYS been active. however, everything i ate went straight to my gut. my senior year of highschool, i became pregnant. this obviously added to my weight issue. by the time it was all said and done, i was over 200lbs! i felt as though i needed breast reduction, lypo, you name it, and had no self esteem...whatsoever. then i went through a divorce at 18! i started to lose all sorts of weight, and very quickly. i became depressed, and soon a size 0-3!!!! i will be honest...it kinda freaked me out! i thought it was just a phase, and i would eventually be back to my big self again. i joined the army, and became pregnant again, but the weight just flew off of me after my son was born. i don't really have to work out much at all. for the last 10 years, i have lived my life as that small person i always longed to be.

this is where it becomes tough for me. i went to my 5 year highschool reunion. i felt extremely confident and happy to show off the new me. i received just as much CRAP for being SKINNY!!!

"do you EVER eat?"

"what kind of drugs are you on??"

"she must have an eating disorder"

oh, my fav one...which should have made me feel good, but made me feel like crap, "omg, megan...you look NOTHING like you use to!!! i didn't even recognize you! you've lost way tooo much weight!"

i get the last one ALOT! my family and friends even think i am too skinny, and constantly toss the comments my way. i have a very large frame...athletic build, but my bmi is perfect! i could gain a couple of pounds, but i am not worried about it. is there such a thing as the PERFECT WEIGHT? NO!! no matter what size, i am still going to pick myself apart because i am my worst critic!! i get sooooo sick of people commenting on how thin i am.  the doctor isn't worried, so why should i be? i just want to be happy in my own skin. when i show new people my old pics, i get the same reaction as i did from my reunuion. fat, skinny...it boils down to the same thing...people need to mind their own damn business and learn some flippin' ettiquete on how to compliment someone.

i hope my rant has made some sort of sense, because at this point, i am starting to confuse myself! haha!

so, yea...that's the short version on how i went from needing breast reduction to needing a boob job, LMAOOO!! ;]

Soo today I walked into school in a good mood, after my 850 calorie breakfast.

I was wearing shorts, and a girl that works at the same place as me came up to me. I don't even know her...

"Oh my God, you're so skinny!"

Wow, what a breakthru, I haven't heard that in a while... Me- "I know. I hate it!"

Her- "You look so grossly unhealthy"

Me- STUNNED

"Well you do."

I continued down the hall when I saw my guy friend and I was PISSED. He goes "Aww, you look so cute when you're mad." FINE- THAT MEANS I'm CUTE- CUTE PEOPLE DON"T LOOK GROSS. SO I WENT HOME. BEEYOTCH!!!

Keep in mind I've been the same size 2 and a half years. no taller, etc.