"Can I Tell You a Story?"

A woman in her mid-thirties, size 16, vegetarian, active, healthy by every measure outside BMI, had done years of work to make peace with her body. She had drawn boundaries with her mother, who she describes as "incredibly fatphobic" and a major source of the body image struggles she and her sisters grew up with. Then she got pregnant. A few days after sharing the news, her mother called to check in. Asked about cravings, she said she was trying to eat clean. Her mother lectured her about not "lazing around eating sweets" to prevent gestational diabetes, reminded her it would be a while before she was "really obviously showing," and then said: "Can I tell you a story? My old colleague was pregnant and was a big girl. I noticed she ate mostly berries and yogurt at her desk, and it was the most amazing thing. She really transformed her body. From the time she got pregnant to when she gave birth, she looked completely different and was actually way smaller. So you know, you can do anything with this time. Anything can happen."

The listener wrote in asking for a "trigger" rating and help processing what she called "actually insane" behavior from her mother less than a week after announcing her pregnancy. The hosts, Jordana Abraham and Dr. Naomi Bernstein, gave it a seven out of ten on their trigger scale.