I feel so ugly
I want some nice pictures with my beautiful baby girl but I’m fat and ugly and my face is so tired. And my husband, bless him, can’t take a decent picture to save his life. If I look halfway decent you can bet that there’s an embarrassing mess in the background. But usually he’s taking the photo from the absolute worst angle so that two thirds of the photo is arm fat and jowls and eye bags. I have hundreds if not thousands of gorgeous photos of him and the baby, but none of myself. It really bothers me. I looked into professional photos, but in my area they are like 900??! I can’t swing that. And even if I could, they’d probably still be ugly because I’m gross. I feel really sad about this. I feel so revolted looking at pictures of myself. Is anyone else in this boat?
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Post partum hormones, lack of sleep and time for self care I feel like are a recipe for this. I feel you. You are beautiful though, maybe get a tripod off Amazon. I have one with a timer so I can take my own. My husband takes the worst photos too
Girl, i could have written this. My hubby takes good pictures if i ask, but he doesnt take any at all just cuz. I want good photos with my baby also, and i take tons of them two. Also understand the mess, im going to clean a section amd do my hair and make up and take my own photos. We gotta do what we gotta do. 15 years from now i dont want to regret not doing it and i know i will if i rely on anyone else.
Do your hair and make up and have fun with your baby! If you have a samsung, you can use the stick and position your phone where you want. My phone has options wjere i can say the word 'cheese' and the photo will take. Im going to use that, if you have those options on your phone, use them!
This is all of us. My husband has beautiful photos with our daughter, I always look like I’m on death’s door… have you looked on Groupon for a photographer?
We are living the same life ☹️
Same! No pictures of me and baby and he has some he had me take of him, must be nice to be well rested and take cute photos 🙂 I need to take some and just have my friend come over and we get dressed decent and go for a walk and have a photo shoot or something 😂
thank you for the validation and support, ladies! It helps to know that I’m not alone. The practical ideas are really helpful too!!
the tripod is a great idea. I’m going to go for it
those are great suggestions about taking the photos remotely, thank you!
on death’s door is the perfect description! 🫠 I’m going to look into photographers again tonight. I was feeling a bit triggered scrolling through the awful photos of myself and felt really upset in the moment, but you and the other ladies who responded are right: there are solutions out there. And it’s a pretty common experience by the sound of it
Dooo it!!
Same!!
yes i felt this. i got pictures done with my baby and the ones with me in them i hated them and cried but everyone else said they were beautiful pictures. id say take as many pictures as you can because you’ll regret not taking them. i’m sure you’re beautiful
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