People who have pictures of themselves all over their houses.

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I have never asked why as it is judgy isn’t it so I’m asking you all, why do people do this.
Especially those that are obviously professionally done, all misty around the edges, there’s usually feathers and off the shoulder outfit with heavy makeup making them look somewhat dragqueen like.
Pictures of them self up the stairs, huge ones in the living room with lots of smaller ones. No other family members, just themselves.

Or those awful painted or hand drawn ones that are just awful, why does that look amazing to one person but makes another shudder?

I’m old, I’ve been in many many homes, lots and lots and it always surprises me as it’s a lot, loads and loads of people have these.
Curious that’s all.
Not saying they can’t do or have what they want in their own homes...blah blah blah, just curious.

I don't have pictures of me like that on the wall (apart from my wedding photo), but there is a large montage of hilarious awful photos of me and friends from my pre kid days. I keep it up because it makes me happy. I also have photos of my kids on the walls because I like them. It's probably that simple isn't it? People are different, people like different things. If it makes them happy then so be it!

I knew a woman once who had a PAINTING of herself commissioned to hang in her living room

I have photographs of my D.C. in the house & a couple of me with family in my bedroom

I like photographs and have picked happy moments and can look back fondly

I’ve never seen that in anyone’s home.
I’ve seen a few with huge canvases of the children, with a couple of the family, where they have obviously had one of those hard sell studio packages.
That was more common in the noughties though.

We have pictures of our family throughout the house - they are photos we have taken from across the world, enlarged and framed. All very special to us.

I have a couple of family pictures around but none of just me. I'd find that to weird lol. Don't know anyone who has tbh.

I can beat this! I used to work for an insurance company and when trying to get more detail about the clients high value items it was disclosed they had a bronze statue in the garden, of them self

Candid holiday ones...i'm never the only one in the picture though. Just family snaps/memories

I have pictures of myself up in the house but non of them are as the OP described. Mainly silly ones of us all as a family, holding birds on holiday that sort of thing. Certainly no glamorous shots

I have a couple of wedding photos of me and DH, photos of other family members at my wedding, newborn photos of the DCs, random photos of the DCs as they’ve grown, a few very old black & white photos of my grandparents in their younger days....loads all dotted around the house! The only photos I’m in though are the wedding ones. I wouldn’t put portraits of myself anywhere!! Strikes me as a little strange
When I was a teenager, my friend’s mum had photos of herself from one of those “boudoir shoots” on canvasses on her bedroom walls She had the biggest mirror in her room too so my friend and I would do our hair in there and it was always very weird having multiple images of her mother in her underwear staring at me

I have very few photos up at all, and none of me.

But ivwoukd like one good photo of me and the DC. To go with the couple of photos of mum and dad, and DBro and family. Nothing in your face at all.

I nannied with a posh family, ancient lineage and all that, who had oil paintings of themselves alongside those of their ancestors.

I have a a huge frame with a montage of friends and family. These include my parents, father in law, friends and brother who are no longer here. It has probably fifty photographs cut down within it, each conjuring a memory, a different one catching my eye each time I pass it. I also have three black and white A4 size frames of each DC on the stairs, not professionally taken. I can't bear those awful glamour shots.

I've got a lovely photo of me and my DC, we all look lovely in it, so I have it in a frame, never really thought about it. I like looking at it, the three of us cuddled up. We had a session done, the ones with dh in aren't as good so hes not in it. It was a gift for my 40th. One day we'll all be much older and it's nice to have captured that moment. I like looking at pictures of myself that are nice, is that odd? I try to have photos or art up that reminds me of a time or place. Nostalgic memories.

I have a professionally done portrait up. Why? Because I love it, it's a gorgeous photo and it was my first published photo so I'm proud of it

Family photos and wedding photos are normal but I don’t think it’s normal to have photos just of yourself everywhere, it’s fucking weird.

@DDIJ get in front of the camera. When you are old and grey you will want to remember when you were gorgeous and your kids will want photos to look back on.

A friend of mine has exactly what the OP is talking about and it’s honestly so weird. She has several photo montages just of herself. She has a frame with a number of pics of her in various sunsets.

She also has a digital photo frame which just cycles photos of.... herself. Even from holidays she’s been on with other pictures she picks out the photos of herself.

The sad thing is that she is really low in confidence but just having photos of herself around her house makes her look pretty self obsessed

I have photos of my family and children up. I like looking at them! Didn't realise it was weird! What in particular is odd or wrong about having pictures of your children up?

The woman we bought the house from had professional photos of herself and her kids all over the house. Like everywhere you looked.
A couple of pics here and there is fine but this was in every available space!
They did all have at least one child on them but she was preening in each one

My house is full of pictures of my husband's family. There are some of my husband too, and a few of him with our children. There isn't one of me, simply because nobody has ever cared enough to take any. I am expected to take all of the photos of everyone else, but nobody will ever take any of me. And yes, I have asked.

My face doesn't frighten horses and my family is a loving one otherwise, but I actually wish there was a photo of me on display. There isn't one of me in my parents house either, just hundreds of pictures of my sisters.

There are no pictures of me in existence
^ Are you one of those people who ducks out of group photos and refuses to have a photo taken of themselves with their kids etc?

They’re nice memories for your kids/family/friends to look back on. Get in the photo.

I was house-hunting on SE London a few years ago and literally every house I viewed had enormous canvas prints of photos of (presumably) the women who lived there in various states of undress. Bikini holiday snaps or boudoir style photo shoots. One or two totally starkers. It put me right off living there and I moved somewhere else instead!

I am expected to take all of the photos of everyone else, but nobody will ever take any of me. And yes, I have asked.

Wait, you specifically say to your DH “here’s the camera, take a photo of me and the kids” And he refuses?