Their Living Situation Was a Dream Come True—Until a Single Mistake Ruined Everything
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Fewer people know how to turn small jealousies into a full-on war the way roommates do. When resentment moves in, it takes a whole lot of effort to evict it back out.
What would you do if your roommate developed a very odd obsession…with you? One girl recently shared an insane story from her own experience with Reddit. Here’s what went down.
AITA for snapping at my roommate after she kept comparing her weight-loss journey to my body online?
My roommate’s been posting her weight-loss journey on social media and I’ve become uncomfortable because she keeps making my body part of her content.
For context, I’m 5’7 around 110lbs.
I have always struggled to keep weight on.
Definitely a problem not many people talk about or consider.
If I don’t intentionally eat more than I feel full, I tend to drop closer to 105 lbs, which is stressful and physically tiring for me.
I’m giving these details only because my body has become part of the issue.
I don’t think my body should be used as someone else’s public comparison point, weight-loss goal, or surgery reference.
Or at the very least, not publicly.
She has said online that part of why she started losing weight was because she felt “so big” next to her roommate (me).
She also said a guy she brought home was looking at me the next morning instead of her.
That already made me uncomfortable, but I didn’t say anything at first.
There are so many layers to this.
We have designated fridge and pantry shelves.
Because I’m trying to maintain/gain weight, I keep higher-calorie foods around, like avocado/brioche/ribeye/full-fat yogurt/oils/desserts but she yelled at me for being “unsupportive” because the food on my shelves was tempting her.
To keep the peace, I bought opaque containers and put all my food in those.
Seems like a sensible solution.
I have talked to her before and asked her to stop.
She said she read that it was good to have a real-life goal instead of a celebrity.
She did say she’ll stop the online posts, but irl she didnt stop.
That’s even worse in some ways.
There was also a post where she said she was considering a boob job.
She actually took one of my bras from the laundry and showed it in the video.
She read out my bra size and the brand from the label, commented on the bra design and even put it on herself.
Oh, that’s beyond creepy.
She also showed two photos of me with my face censored but my body visible.
She repeatedly commented on my waist, chest, thighs and drew lines on the photos.
I felt incredibly violated.
Most people would!
Even with my face censored, that was still my body, my underwear, and my private information being used as content.
I also felt like my body was being publicly evaluated but I didn’t want to comment publicly because I didn’t want to identify myself.
A couple of days ago, we were at a friend’s get-together and she refused to eat cake someone had made because she said it would make her fat and that she “wasn’t [my name], who just eats anything”.
This is bordering on obsessive.
I snapped.
I said something like, “You’re never going to be me. You’ll never be as skinny, and you’ll just end up with an ed and tons of plastic surgery because you’ll never have my natural waist and boobs”.
I know that was harsh, but I also didn’t think I snapped out of nowhere.
That couldn’t have gone over well.
She started crying, and some ppl said I was being cruel and unsupportive.
I said, “Then she should stop posting about me on social media”.
A pretty reasonable boundary.
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But some people still defended her saying she should be able to have body goals and post about body positivity.
Some of her friends even dmed me about being so cruel so now I’m not so sure…AITA?
Sounds like jealousy is the invisible third roommate here. Let’s see what the Reddit jury had to say about this one.
The comments were widely appalled for different reasons.
A few ultimately being torn in their read on the situation.
One person issued a valid warning.
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Another repeated an important mantra.
But someone else shared an interesting perspective.
She needs to focus on being herself, her roommate is already taken.
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