I’m not considerably overweight, just been chubby all my life. When I was just starting puberty, I had gained a lot of weight within a short period of time and got stretch marks on my thighs. My mother saw them when I was wearing shorts at home and she commented “I only got those marks when I was pregnant”. The whole family proceeded to call me “The Pregnant Girl” for almost a month. It was horrible but I had to pretend to be ok with it because they were “just joking around”.

