“Have you put on weight?” 8 graceful ways to react

2. Offer a clear explanation for possibly looking fat: “It just looks like that because I’m layering my clothes.”


“I would tell him it was the colors I was wearing that gave him that impression,” says a female in her twenties. “I would explain that I was layering my clothes,” says a girl in her teens. In other words, come up with a reason you look as though you’ve put on weight.