We’re pretty sure if you ask someone one of the most awkward situations they’ve ever been in they’d say congratulating someone for being pregnant and then finding out that they’re not in fact with child.
We’ve all been there, you feel embarrassed, your face turns red, you apologise about a million times and then you avoid social contact with them forever.
However this mum-of-two thought of a different approach when the exact thing happened to her while she was working at a party.
Jess Rotenberg, a photographer, explained her response on Huffington post, after a guest at the party congratulated her on being pregnant:
“Oh, I’m not pregnant,” I explained without skipping a beat. Cue mortification as the blood drained from his face.
"I offered a pat on the back and smile, just as I had comforted the young and old, men and women who had come before him, drowning in the social quicksand of embarrassment.”
After they both went their separate ways Jess began to wonder why we find it awkward and uncomfortable when we mistake someone for being pregnant. She then realized that it’s only see as an insult because there is an idea that relates being fat to negativity.
In her blog post she continues: “Buying into the idea that this is an insult is buying into the idea that fat is bad and gross.
"That if given the choice between a skinny body and a fat body, we should all immediately sign up for thin.”
We admire her empowering message, she continues to state that her body shape doesn’t stop her from accomplishing what she needs to do.
She then concludes her post by writing: “You can mistake me for a glowing pregnant mama any day. Because it reminds me that fat is not the worst thing I can be. But maybe don’t ask me every day, OK?”
We totally agree with Jess, we are all for body empowerment - fat or skinny, tall or short - we are all beautiful and we need to learn to love our shapes.
Read the full blog post here.