By ugly duckling - 06/08/2015 19:18 - United States - Reston

Today, feeling very self-conscious about my looks, I told my mom I felt ugly and wished I could be as beautiful as her. She only said, "Yeah, I'm pretty, I wonder what happened to you." FML
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carl_carl_ 28

That's so rude of her. I can tell your mother sure has an ugly personality just from that comment

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laurenswims13 24

Great parenting. Sorry OP, i bet you're beautiful!

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arabian22 29

Looks are nothing if you're that shallow! I hope she was joking

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lavieestbelle_fml 11

Maybe that was her sarcastic way of telling you not to be silly, because you obviously aren't ugly?

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GeorgiaBea 28

While I don't think fishing for compliments is cool. Your mom is kind a jerk. Feel beautiful for yourself.

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StickyPickles 33

I don't care what you may look like on the outside, if you are ugly on the inside then you are ******* ugly on the whole. . That shit don't balance out in my book

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Ducklord21 14

Stop fishing for complements and then getting offended when you don't get them.

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OverBlossomed 21

There's a difference between fishing for compliments and wanting support when you're feeling down about yourself.

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rileyrae0000 23

There is a difference between fishing for complements and fishing for compliments

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SookyLala 13

Agreed. People need to stop relying on others to bring them up, if you think youre ugly, do something about, go do yourself up or something, fishing for a compliment will never end well for 2 reasons #1 - Most people don't care #2 - even if someone is nice and gives you a false sense of joy, it fades very quickly

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Aimeejasmine 15

Who cares if they are fishing for them? A humans basic needs are to be accepted and loved, it's not like you don't get happy when you get like on ig or Facebook, everyone loves to be complimented whether you admit it or not. Stop shaming people for being human ffs

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SookyLala 13

uh no. facebook is a massive 'look at me i'm a somebody' website. it promotes this sort of thinking. deleted it years ago. you need to tell yourself that you are who you are, and youre ok with it.

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tastychickens 13

My mom talks about how pretty my sister is, so once I said, "Well, what about me?" My mom said, "There's nothing wrong with the way you look!" Thanks, mom. My sister really is a lot prettier than I am and doesn't act conceited over it at all, so I'm not mad at them!

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Vagitarian4life 14

And the Mother of the Year award goes to...Mrs. Egocentric Bitch!

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rileyrae0000 23

I can't decide if your username is slightly frightening or clever

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pixierara 28

I'm so sorry, people like that are bad in the first place but I'm sorry your mother is one of them. Don't be bitter through, take the high road unlike her.

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drrobotnik1 18

sucks. not saying you deserved it, but fishing for compliments doesn't often turn out well.

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pygmyfrog 31

The mother wasn't necessarily being conceited or arrogant. She may have been being pensive, the same as I might say "Hmm, I have blue eyes, but one of my kids has green",just observing the differences. Also - since the OP mentioned her mother's looks, did she expect her mom to then turn around and deny it? That'd be pretty dishonest.

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