My mother’s self-esteem issues affected her thoughts of fat. She thought she was fat and quickly noticed that characteristic of others. When the parents returned from a trip to the store or a restaurant, Mama was always quick to give me a full report.
Daddy rarely made any remarks about people regardless of their looks, but one day after they had been out, he gave an account of a particular lady he saw. Mama would have just bluntly said they saw a fat lady. Daddy however said, “It’s a good thing that lady had skin on, or she would’ve been all over the place.”