Dear Queenie,
I’m pregnant and I’m watching my weight carefully because I can’t do much exercising. I look really huge, but my doctor says that’s because I’m so short and that really I’m doing just fine.
The thing is, people, including especially my mother-in-law, are always telling me I’m getting too big and how I must be eating too much.
Queenie, what’s a polite way to respond to such comments?—Pregnant, not fat
Dear Pregnant,
Why be polite to people who are rude to you?
Tell the ones who do not know you are pregnant, “I’m not fat, I’m pregnant.” Tell the ones who do know, “My doctor says I’m doing just fine. Would you like his phone number so you can argue with him?”
