After seeing a FriendFeed post about celebrities without makeup, I decided to create this post. I used to be one of those people who would immediately delete a photo that showed me in a bad light. I have to even admit that I have removed tags from photographs that friends have posted as well. I have the luxury that celebrities don’t get that I have the ability of deleting these bad photos of me before anyone can see them.
It doesn’t matter if you are the most beautiful person in the world, you have taken a bad picture. There are so many things that contribute to a bad photograph – lighting, angle, mood, etc. – that you shouldn’t be ashamed to say “Hey, that’s me.”
Bad pictures should be embraced. They don’t define or represent you, so why be ashamed? Now that I have learned to not be so self-conscious about them, I find them pretty funny. I know what I look like when I stare into a mirror.
I could show you tons of horrible pictures of me if my mom had an online photo album. The running joke between my sisters and me is that my mom only takes pictures of us when we are looking our worst. When I was in labor, my mom was snapping away, and I got so angry because I was so worried that others would see them. Now? I wish I wouldn’t have cared, so my mom could have taken more.
Below are pictures of me that I am not too keen on, but hey, they are of me, so who cares.
