I’ve been thinking about doing this after reading about it at An Accident of Hope some time ago. Today, Chicory started the challenge and I’ve been spurred into action.
I will do this. I absolutely hate photos of myself. So much so that I tend to grimace whenever a camera is pointed at me. Maybe it’s a self defence thing – if I’ve got a grimace or a silly look on my face, maybe attention will be taken away from the horror of how I look. Especially when, like now, I have put on a lot of weight yet again. The belly shots were an attempt at improving my confidence with photos, and including my face from 32 weeks especially. It was about then that I started to include some other photos of me on this blog. But it hasn’t really helped. I still detest photos of myself and cringe wildly whenever I see them, I still grimace or make silly faces at the camera. Especially lately.
I look through FenFox’s baby albums and there are so few photos of me. I think only one of me pregnant with her. And now although there are many shots of me pregnant with McBean, I fear that I’ll just stop again now. I want to be in the family photos, and I want to have lots of photos for both my kids to see of me when they were young and I want to be happy about it.
So here goes. I am determined that this will desensitise me and I will get to place when I at least don’t mind having photos taken of myself.
The rules: Every day I take a photo of myself and post it on Clark’s 365 page and here (if I am accepted as a member of the group).
For incentive and also for my own interest, I’m also going to take a photo every day of both kids to see just how quick they grow. And to help FenFox with her own emerging aversion to photos. They have their own pages. And if I can convince Lazyboo, we’ll do it for her too!
