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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Implicit or not, all the “popular” moms at my elementary school are fit and pretty.  I’m normally a size 12/14. I lost 25 pounds a few years ago and the cool moms started inviting me places and then I gained the weight back and the invites stopped. I don’t know if it’s something they even realize they do - and I don’t care because it was enough to tell me they aren’t the kind of people I want to be friends with.

My friend group includes all sizes and shapes - and levels of fashionability. It’s a group of women who make me laugh and / or share my hobbies. [/quote]

Who are the popular moms?  And how do you define them?   [/quote]

The popular moms are people like my neighbor who people (some joking, some not) call “the mayor”. She always has 50+ unread texts from her Many group chats. She’s nice to me, but I’m not in the crew she invites out for drinks and that’s fine. However if I walk to a school event with her or she is talking to me, later other moms will mention “I didn’t know you know Larla” in a weird junior high “are you my ticket in?” way. Cool neighbor and her crew post group photos to IG of 10+ nearly identical looking women doing shots on a Wednesday night. They are VERY involved with the PTA and Facebook/ IG friends with all the teachers. Being involved in the school is not a bad thing, but it’s annoying when other people can’t volunteer because they assign all the roles to their friends before they send out to the Signup Genius link except for the token “bring napkins” and “clean up crew” jobs.

I don’t know if they are popular in that all the other moms want to be them or be friends with them - but they give off a very sorority girl / party girl vibe like a stereotypical “popular girl” from a movie. I would not think about them very much except that I live nextdoor to one, we have kids in the same grades, and sometimes I get a pity invite to her “mom wine night” gatherings in her yard. [/quote]

Moms who do “wine nights” and act like sorority girls just sound so sad. No matter how much Botox they get, they still look like middle aged women, not stereotypical “popular girls.” Why do older women insist on trying to look like and behaving like girls into their 40s?[/quote]

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