This all went down yesterday and just the thought of going back to work and facing this makes me feel sick, so I called off work today. I feel like such an asshole for this so I really need some outside judgement. Here's the story:

I (27F) am very, very pregnant. I'm 23 weeks along, but I look like I'm ready to pop. I work an office job that comes with all the stereotypes: cubicles, water coolers, and terrible co-workers. My office is set up in a weird way, where if I want to get into my cubicle, I have to slide across the side wall of the one next to it. This, of course, has been do-able until I got pregnant.

I have a co-worker we'll call "Jenny" (32F) who works in the cubicle next to mine. Jenny and I don't talk much, and she hasn't said anything about my pregnancy other than congratulating me. However, now that I've been showing a bit more, I've been struggling to slide into my cubicle. I have to shove myself inside, hitting the side wall of Jenny's cubicle as I do, which has caused me a lot of embarrassment.

Today, this embarrassment doubled when Jenny looked over the side of her cubicle to watch me in my daily tribulations. Once I made it through the cubicle gap from hell, Jenny chuckled a little before saying, "I'm surprised you still pass the skinny queen challenge."

Now, I am not of an age where I don't know internet slang. In fact, Jenny is older than me, so it surprised me that she used any kind of language such as "queen." I have also never been "skinny," my body type is curvy and my stomach was certainly not flat before my pregnancy. I was flabbergasted after Jenny said this, so I simply pretended not to hear anything. But, the next time I got up and struggled through the gap again, I heard her laugh even louder, talking about this "challenge" again.

Here's where I'm probably the asshole. I don't know if it was hormones or sheer rage, but I turned my pregnant ass around, waddled over to her cubicle, stood in her "door" gap (which is much bigger than mine), and told Jenny that I didn't need to pass her challenge or be a "skinny queen" to be happy in my body. I also told her that she and her fat ass could try to make it through my cubicle entrance, but that she'd definitely get herself stuck and we'd have to call the fire department to get her out. Finally, I called her a bitch for insulting a pregnant woman, and said that she should drop some pounds first if she wanted to do that.

Jenny burst into tears, and I felt horrible as soon as I said it. I’m a very body-positive person after dealing with self image issues as a teen, and I love and support all body types. This outburst just felt so not me. Jenny’s a woman who weighs about 300 pounds and hasn't had an easy time dropping it, as I've heard through other co-workers. It's not because of a medical reason, at least I haven't been told that it was, but I still wanted to crawl into a hole and die because of my words. I squeezed myself back into my cubicle (I was too mortified to apologize then) and kept doing my work. Jenny left early and I still can't get over what I said to her. Some of my co-workers told me I was standing up for myself, but others told me I took it too far and being pregnant doesn't give me an excuse to be mean to Jenny.

So, AITAH for telling Jenny I don't need to pass her "skinny queen challenge?"