Kim, 35, Separated, 4 kids
Harasses her daughter for being overweight

Kim hassles her daughter Chelsey about her weight. Kim admits that she has an anger problem and she tends to lash out at Chelsey with harsh words about her size. She also stands by laughing when her son calls her an “Ogre” and her daughter Shalee constantly lays into Chelsey with nasty words.

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO CHELSEY ABOUT HER WEIGHT?
I call her “Fatty.” Then she’ll cry. I’ll call her “lazy heifer” and then she’ll walk off saying I’m “fat and lazy.” If she doesn’t do what I tell her, I’ll say, “Get off your fat butt and do it right now!” She needs to get off her fat ass and do something. Chelsey used to offer to do everything: the dishes clean the bathroom or do the laundry. Nowadays, she’s always asking me how much I’ll pay her to do something. She won’t do the laundry if I ask her. Then she’ll make up excuses. I speak my mind; everyone knows that. I piss people off. I have an anger problem. I tell the kids to leave me alone. I’ll tell Chelsey, “Why don’t you go for a walk? Why don’t you quit eating all that food?”

HOW DOES CHELSEY REACT TO YOUR HARASSMENT?
She calls me “fatty” or “fat ass” back. She calls me a horrible mother, and she’ll start crying. It’s just, “Get off your butt and do something, damnit!!” She’ll say, “You’re fat yourself.” All my kids like to say, “Mom, you’re fat!” Even my 3-year-old calls me fatty. I’m not a perfect mom who babies her kids and they turn out to be drug addicts. I don’t tolerate a lot of crap. It’s just, “Don’t frickin’ do it!” I’ve been there, done that. I don’t say, “Oh, you poor baby.” She’s a monster. Chelsey blames me because her dad isn’t in her life. Chelsey’s awful.

WHY DID CHELSEY START GAINING WEIGHT?
I think it’s because she’s not active enough. She doesn’t do sh**. She doesn’t want to exercise. She doesn’t want to do anything. She’ll eat a couple large snacks when she gets home and then she eats dinner. I cut her off after that. She doesn’t drink pop; she drinks water. I drink pop, but I don’t let the kids drink pop. She eats PB & J sandwiches and chili for snacks. She may be eating to comfort herself for what’s on her mind: her grandpa dying and her father denying that she’s his child. That could explain why she’s gained 70 pounds in the last 2 years.

WHY DOES CHELSEY EAT SO MUCH?
She’s torn up and eating out of comfort. She feels like her dad doesn’t care because he denies her. Chelsey looks just like her dad. I tell him he makes Santa Claus look small. My son is just like my dad; he can eat and eat and eat. My other kids are fine with weight. My sisters in law have elastic bodies, they snap back after having kids.

WHAT’S CHELSEY’S DIET LIKE?
She eats a normal school breakfast. Then she eats a normal school lunch. I don’t let her pack anything for school. She eats stuff at grandma’s house between lunch and dinner. Then she eats whatever she can get away with at night. She gets hostess as a treat. The worst thing she might eat is a cup of dinner. If I make pork chops, mash potatoes and gravy or Chinese food, she can eat whatever. She disagrees. She eats dinner-sized snacks up at grandma’s house. I don’t know what she eats. She can’t eat one or two corn dogs, she has to have three. She doesn’t listen to me.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HELP CHELSEY LOSE WEIGHT?
I can’t afford to put her in program or summer camp. We tried walking, but she doesn’t want to walk. She has no will power. She wouldn’t stick to program. We tried cutting down on her food, but she gave up. I’m not into junk food. Pork chops and steak. Walks. She does PE at school and everything. She runs around with the dogs in the yard.

WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR CHELSEY?
I want her to be skinny and be a popular kid. She gets a lot of grief at school. People ask her if she’s pregnant. She was beautiful when she was young. I tell those kids that no one talks down to my kids but me. We keep it in the family. I do try and stop them, but I’m not there 24/7. T hey tell me I say it too, but that’s different. I’m their mother.

WHAT DOES SHALEE SAY TO CHELSEY?
She’ll call her “Fat Ass” and “Beached Whale," you name it. She’ll call her a “Fat lazy bitch.” I tell Shalee to shut up if she starts to get serious. Now that Chelsey’s gotten heavier, Shalee is mean to her. I think it’s funny when Chelsey pins her down. I laugh when my 9-year-old son calls her, “Ogre of the Forest.” He tells us we’re all fatties. He gets that from his father, who used to call us fatties. His father is not around anymore. She has a great personality. She likes to make people laugh.

WHAT’S YOUR WEIGHT HISTORY LIKE?
Fat! I was a stick kid growing up. I was in my first year of training for the Olympics for floor and parallel bars. I was going to travel with The Nutcracker. I was really skinny and pretty. My friends talked me into quitting gymnastics because I never had time for them. My weight never moved until I had kids. I could eat a large pizza and a 2-liter of pop and I not gain weight before I had kids. I carry my weight pretty well. I’m 5’5”. I weigh at least 200 pounds. I used to weigh 105 pounds until I started having kids. I should weigh 125 pounds. I’m not trying to get back to that weight. After I had Chelsey, I was way bigger than I am now. I got up and walked every day. Then my storeowner said, “You look good. Now you stop!” The guy said I would look too skinny and would have to start eating rice with him.