This Toddler Attempting to Fit Into An Old Pair of Skinny Jeans Is All of Us
You know that in-between-sizes period where you're *pretty* sure you can squeeze your way into the old, slightly-too-snug pair of pants if you just believe hard enough - and jump, and twist, and wiggle your way into them? That dance has definitely played out in front of my own mirror plenty of times, but I doubt it was ever anywhere near as cute as this viral baby's "skinny jeans dance."
Alyssa Price uploaded a short video of her daughter to Facebook, showing the little girl desperately trying to get into her old pants. The clip was picked up and shared by various outlets, like the Facebook page Just Girly Things, and it quickly racked up millions of views and tens of thousands of comments. Price told TODAY that the pants in question had fit her daughter two weeks before. But given that kids grow like weeds (especially in their early years), two weeks ago might as well have been another lifetime, because those pants were 100% never going to button.
Instead of giving up the pants and accepting a newer, bigger pair from her mom, the baby girl adopted a "No! I can make this work!" mindset and continued to cutely struggle with buttoning the too-tight pants. Laughing, Price encouraged her daughter to do "the skinny jeans dance" and to "wiggle, wiggle, wiggle" in order to get them to fit, advising her to suck her belly in. Finally, they both gave up, with Price telling her daughter, "I don't think it's gonna happen either."
It's pretty clear from the less-than-a-minute video that the entire thing is some lighthearted parenting fun - just a mom filming her baby doing something cute and familiar. "I told her she looked like mommy trying to get into her skinny jeans," Price said. "Every woman I know has been through this battle before. No matter who you are, what size or shape you are, skinny jeans can be difficult to get into." Fact.
Of course, this is the Internet, so people quickly picked up their e-pitchforks to attack this mother for a variety of nonsense reasons. Some accused Price of allowing her baby to become overweight (way to fat-shame a perfectly average-sized baby, random online strangers!), while others took the opposite perspective and mommy-shamed Price for instilling "body confidence issues" by jokingly telling her daughter to suck in her belly.
If you fall in that camp, you should probably just log off of Facebook and go take a walk. Because, honestly? It's a cute video, and people seriously need to stop berating parents based on the few seconds of their lives that go viral.
(h/t Today)
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