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[quote=Anonymous]Since we're sharing.

Once we took a joint family vacation when I was about 6 months post partum. I was actually feeling great about my appearance when we went -- I'd lost a ton of weight, had successfully treated my PPD, and was just very happy to be at the beach with my baby and our friends.

About a week after the trip, our friends sent us a ton of photos they'd taken, mostly of the kids and a few of our family together. But there was one photo in there of me standing in the surf with the baby. It's in profile and the file was large so I had to scroll down in the email to see it. It was pretty much the least flattering possible angle of a postpartum body in a bathing suit, plus a bad angle on my profile that made me look like I had a receding chin, and the glare of the sun looked awful on my skin (I'm pale and don't tan at all, so I spent the week slathered in sunscreen and wearing hats and cover ups).

It was probably the worst I have ever felt about myself in my life. I literally cried when I saw it. I think they sent it because it was a pic of me and the baby on our own and like a lot of moms I don't get a lot of those. But it was such a bad picture. Even though I intellectually know it was just a bad photo, that no woman is excited about seeing her pregnancy pouch in profile a few months post partum, that everyone has bad angles and bad lighting, it was such an ego blow.

It's been years and I still feel horrible just recalling the existence of this photo (which I of course deleted and never showed to a single soul). Photography can be brutal![/quote]

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