A mom delivered an unforgettable reply when her daughter called her “fat.” “Today, my small daughter told me that she didn’t want to be fat like me,” Sharon Johnson, a mother of six in Utah, said in a TikTok video. “Now, instead of breaking down in tears or saying, ‘We don’t use the word fat,’ I simply looked at her and said, ‘Why is that, sweetheart?’” Her 5-year-old daughter’s answer: “Well, because I want to run fast and you can’t run fast, Mom.
” Johnson’s commenters said hearing about the conversation was curative: “I needed this as a child” and “Getting curious instead of defensive or judgmental — KUDOS to you!!” Some were already living by Johnson’s advice. “I started doing taekwondo at 270 pounds. I love it!” wrote a TikToker; a second commented, “I love paddle boarding but I find myself being so self conscious the whole time I’m out there; but there I am, out there doing it.” In an interview with TODAY.