I refused to give my obese niece a second slice of cake and now my sister is mad at me – but I stand by what I did

A woman has been criticized for her cruel behavior towards her ‘overweight’ niece.

The 32-year-old recently hosted a family gathering and condemned her older sister for ‘spoiling’ her daughter with food despite the child being ‘extremely’ overweight at 10kg.

The woman prepared a healthy salad and chicken for the meal, and baked a sponge cake for dessert.

‘My niece asked for a second piece and I refused. “I care about my niece’s health, but I didn’t want to single her out for it, so I said I’d save it for later,” she revealed on Reddit.

She said she then gave other children extra slices of cake and encouraged them to lie to her fat niece about the food.

The woman explained her side of the story in a post.

‘After dinner, while the kids were playing in the living room, my seven-year-old daughter and her other cousins ​​came up to me and asked for a second piece of cake.

‘I didn’t want the cake to go to waste, so I agreed to give them another piece of cake if they didn’t tell their cousin. Eventually my niece found out and started crying, and my sister was mad at me for ‘punishing’ her daughter.

“I told her we wouldn’t be in this position if she had actually taken care of her child, which infuriated her and she has been ignoring me ever since.”

Many criticized her for being controlling.

“It is not your responsibility to control your niece’s food intake. If you think her parents are not doing a good job, you should bring it up with them. You can’t choose what is right for their child,” one person said.

‘She’s eight. She does not understand diets and restricting food intake to control weight. She looks at what’s fair, and you’ve made it clear to her that you don’t think she deserves as much extra dessert as her cousins,” another wrote.

Some also objected to the woman teaching the other children bad behavior.

‘She also teaches children to lie. Some of the children she taught to lie weren’t even her own children,” one person commented.

Another said: ‘She is teaching her child that it is okay to judge others for their weight, which can disrupt the daughter’s view of herself, relationship with her own body and food.’

But some claimed she wasn’t entirely wrong.

‘You can set the rules in your own home. If that means just one serving of cake, then that’s completely appropriate. However, that rule should be applied fairly to all children,” one woman wrote.