A woman has declined to be her best friend's bridesmaid after the bride's rude reaction to her huge weight loss. She took to Reddit to explain that she had been trying to lose weight for some time and being asked to be her best friend's bridesmaid was the added motivation she needed to stay on track.
By the time the wedding came around when the two friends had not seen each other for some time, the bridesmaid had lost over 3 stone. "We don't live in the same town anymore because I moved six months before she announced her engagement. So anyways, she asked me to be her bridesmaid not too long ago, and I accepted," explained the bridesmaid in an online post.
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When the woman arrived back at home to see her best friend before the wedding all the issues started to come out pretty quickly.
She said: "Fast forward to my trip home, everything goes to the dogs. When my friend saw me, she didn't seem too happy. Something was off as she barely even hugged me. She didn't say anything then, so I just assumed I was reading into it."
However, when the pair decided to get lunch later that day, the bride commented on the lunch choices of her best friend who got herself some brown rice and a salad.
"She commented on how I'd changed so much. I only laughed and told her that I was on a diet until I lost some more weight. This led to a rant from her side about how now she feels like the fat one of the two," she continued.
"We have been friends since high school, and she's had this thing where she'd treat me like I was a guy. It's weird to explain, but to put it simply I am 5'7 and she's barely 5 feet tall. Because of this height difference, I've always looked heavy next to her, and she took pleasure in that."
When they were friends at school, the bridesmaid remembered that her friend would wear her t-shirts and comment on how baggy they were for her, as well as comment on the size of her hands and the fact she was so much bigger.
"This always made me feel less feminine somehow, and kind of ugly. However, now that I'd lost weight, I didn't look fat anymore and she couldn't do any of those cutesy things (her words, not mine) and that really hurt her," explained the bridesmaid.
"I attempted to change the topic but she kept circling back to that, and then asked me if I'd lost weight deliberately for her wedding. I told her that I'd been trying to lose weight for a while before that, but her wedding was a good motivator for me."
However, the bride was not buying this and suggested she had lost weight just to steal her thunder on the big day - and that no matter how much weight she lost, the bride would always be thinner and daintier.
The bridesmaid continued: "She added that because of this "betrayal" she no longer felt comfortable having me as a bridesmaid, and I could attend as a guest instead. That strung a nerve, and I promptly left the restaurant, and texted her later that night to tell her that I was not interested in attending her wedding."
There has been a waive of backlash against the bride with one person claiming: " She's not your friend, she's always had you around just to make herself feel better. You were nothing more than an accessory."
While another Redditor claimed: "This sounds like a lucky escape from a toxic friendship."
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