My Grandpa Called Me "Chubbs"

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Tracy wonders if she should confront her grandpa for giving her a nickname that she believes contributed to her low self-esteem. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:03.0	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Gracie, welcome to the program.
0:14.6	Hi, Dr. Laura, for that.
0:17.4	But I just have a question as far as, like, how I should proceed with, do I
0:27.4	do counseling?
0:29.4	I'm sorry, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am, you don't call me to ask me if you should go into counseling.
0:35.3	That has nothing to do with me. Okay. Okay. Just tell me what the
0:39.8	problem is that you might go into counseling for. So when I was growing up as a child and all
0:50.6	through my teenage years, my grandfather came up with this, my step-grandfather came up with this nickname for me
0:57.7	that then his two sons, which were my uncles, which were my step-uncles.
1:03.7	So they were kind of close in my age, maybe, you know, six to eight years older than me. So they were like teenagers when I was, you know,
1:14.0	like seven, eight, nine. And they would call me Chubs because I was a little chunky. And I believe that,
1:27.0	and this is like the first time I'm talking about it, but I think it had a lot of effects on me.
1:34.6	As a girl.
1:35.5	Okay.
1:35.6	May I throw in something?
1:37.2	May I throw in something?
1:40.2	Yes.
1:41.3	My dad called me monkey face.
1:45.0	Oh, okay.
1:47.1	How do you...
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