The internet can be a really cruel place. Unfortunately for two parents, they found exactly just how much.
According to a Redbook report, father and Reddit user Zmegz had meant to upload his daughter’s image on Reddit’s Daddit group.
Instead, he accidentally uploaded it to image hosting website Imgur.
Before either parent could rectify their mistake, they suddenly found themselves reading negative comments that were quickly being left on their daughter’s photo.
“Two people said she was unhealthily overweight and that we should take better care of her. My 14-month-old. Who is perfectly healthy and thriving at a normal weight,” the mom said in a separate Reddit forum.
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“It makes me so sad that at one-year-old, she is already getting negative comments about her weight.”
Thankfully, other parents in the forum jumped to her daughter’s defense.
“Your girl looks like a beautiful, healthy kid. Sorry people are being jerks,” said one mom.
Other parents shared tales body-shaming their own children had endured.
“People used to tell me my daughter was fat around 6 [months],” another mom said. “She was very very chubby, but her weight, height and all that was in the 75th percentile, and I was told she was a very healthy baby.”
Meanwhile, this one mom’s story will leave you speechless:
“My husband posted a picture of our newborn on Daddit and someone replied that they hoped she died of SIDS,” she said.
“It didn’t really bother me because it was just someone trying to get a rise out us with no real power or anything personal behind it, but it shows the quality of people these websites sometimes harbor.”
When we hear the term “body-shaming,” it is usually directed at mostly teenagers and certain adults who don’t quite fit society’s misplaced standards of beauty.
It is extremely inappropriate to call attention to someone’s body in a negative way simply because one does not see it as particularly “beautiful” in their eyes.
It’s even more repulsive when such a treatment is directed toward innocent and unsuspecting children.
As for the two parents who unwittingly found their daughter subjected into such scrutiny, they have since deleted their Reddit accounts.
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