Reactions to Accidental College Gain

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For those of you who don't know, my fiancée began college with a toned bikini bod...

...and proceeded to eat and drink her way to 20 pounds the first year and another 20 pounds the second year, all going to her "beer belly" and leaving the rest of her pretty skinny. Which has tended to attract some surprising reactions.

One of the first good reactions to her gain was when she fell asleep at a party in this position, shirt riding up and beer belly exposed to all the world:

Definitely attracted some looks and whispers about how the former track star was eating a bit too much now that high school track was over. Eventually, the only ones who hadn't seen her belly yet were her parents back home. That led to a pretty brutal discussion her first time going back home for Thanksgiving, when they walked in on her changing her shirt before dinner at her grandparents and saw this:

What a lecture. I raised you to be healthy, those pants fit you perfectly just last year, it's shameful to let yourself go that much, blah blah blah. Luckily she didn't really internalize any of it and continues to gorge herself on snacks and booze to this day.