"Growing up, I was lucky enough to have a mom who always built me up. She was good about complimenting me, reminding me to feel confident in myself and however I looked. I struggled with my weight a lot as a young person, flucuating between sizes, and she never once mentioned anything about the size of my body. I feel like she's some kind of magical unicorn considering I grew up in the '90s and early '00s when almond moms were all the rage."
"" I feel like I look really pretty today," Destiny says while her mom's initial reaction is a look of pure disgust. As her mom stares at her with total confdusion, Destiny asks her mom, " I mean, do you agree?" Her mom says with all the power she can muster, "Oh yeah...so pretty" while leaning into her daughter. "That's all I'm gonna get?" Destiny asks. "That's all you're gonna get from me," her mom replies."
A narrator describes a mother who consistently offered compliments and cultivated confidence despite the narrator's weight fluctuations. A TikTok trend captures daughters saying "I feel like I look pretty today" and recording their mothers' reactions. Several videos show dismissive, icy, or critical responses from mothers when daughters express self-confidence. One example features a mother replying with minimal praise and visible disgust. Another contributor recalls a mother commenting on weight gain by asking if an inch could be pinched. Some viewers contrast those reactions with the desire for unconditional affirmation from parents to daughters.
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