Photo Shoot; Really Seeing a New Me!
A few weeks ago, I had a day that I had only ever dreamed of. I had a makeover and a photo shoot. And I really had been dreaming of having a day like that my entire life. Honestly, I did not enjoy having my senior pictures done and, while I was proud of my progress at my 1 year post op pictures, I still looked at them and couldn't help but think that I still had more weight to lose and I had all my sagging skin. I always hated having my picture taken and hated looking at pictures of myself. I never saw myself as pretty. And when people would tell me I was pretty, I would think they were lying to me just to be nice and they were just saying it because they didn't want to make me feel bad. Even when I went to Banquet my junior and senior year of high school, I didn't feel pretty or think I was pretty because I looked at all my class mates who were skinny and gorgeous. And I dreaded taking my picture with them because I thought I would be such an eyesore standing next to them ...