Do you ever have that moment..

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Registered: 04-26-2003
Do you ever have that moment..
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Sat, 04-17-2004 - 9:33pm
when you see yourself on video or in a picture and you are in utter disbelief? Like, who is that woman? I saw some video taken on Easter. I was in most of it because I was holding my (absolutely adorable) 3 1/2 month old son. Three thoughts:

1. Oh my god, I can't believe I'm really that fat.

2. I need to never wear floral pajamas again.

3. I seriously need some highlights.

Ugh. Good weight loss motivation I suppose.

Erin

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Registered: 11-03-2003
Sun, 04-18-2004 - 3:49pm
Isn't that the weirdest thing ? And the camera adds ten pounds, but when you catch yourself on a store video camera, like in the arrea where they sell them and a whole bunch of them are lined up, it's like walking in front of a firing squad....I would do ANYTHING to avoid them, go WAAAAY out of my way so I wouldn't be caught on film - same with pictures. I have never been photogenic, and it's too much effort to arrange your chins in a manner where you appear to have one or two less than you really do. You end up contorting yourself in these unnatural poses which will warrant a trip to the chiropractor, and the picture that does result make you look like you had a pointy stick up your butt.

Things I've learned from my photographs:

1. Never be photgraphed chewing food or eating. You will be either chewing on the down

swing, or about to shovel something into your face, like cake, for example.

2. One eye is SMALLER than the other ???

3. Is that an extra chin or is the light hitting me funny ?

I actually take really good pictures of myself with those disposable cameras designed to be used at as close as 2.5 feet. I try to never photograph from the front, but at an angle. I have really wide shoulders and hips, even when I was skinny - that's the way I'm arranged, so from the front I look very formidable, but a side shot, I'm like a 2X4 with boobs.

When Kyle and I get married I am going to be the biggest anal-neurotic-obsessive-beeotch-control freak abouth the pictures.

But who isn't ?

AMy

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Registered: 11-04-2003
Sun, 04-18-2004 - 4:30pm
Oh my gosh, I so know the feeling.
 

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