By PupZilla - 02/07/2015 14:08 - United States - Bartlett

Today, I heard my skinny 14-year-old daughter tell her friend, "Ugh, I wish I had leukemia or something so that I could lose weight." Yes, she actually said that. FML
I agree, your life sucks 32 170
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PupZilla tells us more.

Hello everyone, Op here First off, holy crap i didnt think this would get published, but when i got the email that it did, i HAD to look at the comments. Secondly, she doesnt live with me most of the time, she lives with her dad and visits me one day a week and every other weekend. I am there for her and we talk a lot and are very close. Thirdly, i have NO idea why she said this. I talked to her after her friend left and she told me that she is very confident in herself, but feels that she wants to be a size 0, not a size 2. She is very open with me and i can spot when she is not being truthful from a mile away. I explained to her how it was highly inappropriate and she seemed to understand. The friend that she had over is one friend that neither me nor her father likes. She has influenced my daughter in an unhealthy way. If my ex or myself notices any more behavior like this then we will take her to therapy. My daughter definitely meant leukemia because when i asked her about it, she told me that it was not anorexia or bulimia that she was talking about. She is very confident with her body and i actually have to tell her to cover up sometimes because of what she wears. Anyway, I spoke with her and she now understands how bad cancer is and what it does to people. I will definitely be keeping a closer eye on her now and her father will too. And to those of you who said i was eavesdropping, she was in the living room, and i was coming down the stairs.

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I'm not big on smacking kids often, but I hope you smacked the stupid out of her.

Queen_of_Night 20

If you get the chance OP have your daughter read this. My best friend just lost her step brother a few weeks ago to lymphoma which is very similar to leukemia. She was visiting me from our home state when she got the call. I was the one who held her as she cried. He was only in his early 20's. He went through several bouts of bone marrow transplants, which are extremely painful for both the doner and the receiver. His immune system started to reject everything, he looked like a burn victim. His skin was so dry and cracking to the point it would bleed. Then it would scar. He lost all of his teeth in the last few months of his life and was forced on to a liquid diet. He went from being on his way to a college basketball scholarship to bed ridden and confined to a wheel chair. He spent sometime in remission only to relapse about a year ago. He spent six years fighting and just couldn't fight anymore just last month. His whole body just shut down and he said he wasn't ready to die. These are the kind of complications that when you look up lymphoma that you won't find. It's not a funny joke nor is it a cool way to lose weight. He lost weight, because he couldn't eat or move or really anything else. Oh and there's a little issue of your hair falling out. I also just lost my Uncle to bone cancer 2 days ago. It's not cute nor funny to see my father upset over his brother being gone. He was there when he passed and said he never wanted to do anything like that again. A lot of people on here I'm sure will call me out as being "fake" however, I am happy to send the obits and FB pages your way. Is this all worth it for a size 0 jean?

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Someone needs to have a serious talk with these young girls, and explain to them how much fatter they're going to get as they get older. OMG soooo fat :-/ #theravagesoftime

Tell her to exercise and eat healthy :)

This is so ****** up. Ignorant kids like this should go to St.Judes and see how lucky they are to be healthy!!! I work there and let me tell you, nothing is worse than seeing a 3 year old child with terminal leukemia and no chance at surviving.... teach your daughter to stop being a ungrateful bitch

I hope she gets it, it'll teach her not to be so stupid, naive, and insensitive

1. Psychological intervention to help her with this "desire". 2. Set up a visit/volunteer experience at a children's hospital cancer ward.

I had a friend who died of leukemia when he was only 13 years old. He suffered for over a year. And it breaks my heart that ur daughter would say something like that. My friend suffered for so long. He was so young and in so much pain. U really need to talk to ur daughter

She has a VERY real problem and needs to know the actual facts of the type of cancer she is talking about.

Perfect parenting... Instead of disciplining your daughter first, goes on FML to post about it