However later on in the year I ended up getting some friends that were obese like me and a girlfriend. Not only did I gain weight but my mom went from 168 pounds to 269 pounds! When I first started high school most of the kids were skinny and none of the girls were attractive to me. Now I’m 16 and weigh at a whopping 697 pounds! I’ve been gaining for almost 10 years now! My mother helped me when I began gaining however my dad didn’t really like the idea but we both ignored him. I never really cared about my belly because I thought if that’s what my belly looked like after I ate 8 pieces of pizza I was fine with it. During that time I had just started 3rd grade and was 116 pounds! Since then I’ve gotten bullied and called some pretty harsh names due to my weight. I started becoming a bit more overweight when I was 7. Throughout my whole life I’ve always been somewhat on the heavy side. And my friends were kinda like you seem bigger than the last time we saw you. Within the first week of school I was being called names like fatty, hippo, ect. My mom just told me even if I was a lil chubby I shouldn’t worry about being bullied but I still was. School was coming up and I was nervous about it. I eventually sat down and relaxed my belly and that’s when my Jean buttons burst off my legs and my shirt had 2 slight rips in them. It was hard for me to fit it past my belly but it stayed on along with my old jeans. After a while I got the courage to try on one of my old tight shirts and jeans. I told my mom about it and she just said that I wasn’t fat and I was just growing but I knew I was just getting bigger. So I became partially depressed and just ate more and more. But now I weighed 163 LBSI started looking more at my body and saw that I had small forming love handles, medium muffin top and a chubby/fat belly. After my mom left I went straight to the scale to weigh myself. Not only that but the buttons on my shirt were barley holding together. However when I tried to put my jeans on my belly hung over the buttons. Of course I said yes and tried to put on one of my old favorite outfits. Then summer hit and my mom wanted to bring me to my cousins house to see how they were doing during all this. Things weren’t that bad at first but then the days turned into months and so on. However then this virus came around and we had to quarantine. It was normal for me to eat a small portion of food and exercise A LOT. So before the pandemic I was a popular and pretty slim kid. Hi everyone I’m Theresa I’m 11 years old and I’m going to be telling you my story on how quarantine ruined my life :(.