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Ok so I need some advice or outside perspective. I know there are bigger things going on in the world but this is really irking me and I don't know how to react. I have a friend, we have grown apart over the years (more me pulling back due to somme toxic things) and live quite some distance away from each other so don't have regular meet ups. I'm not on Facebook but I'm WhatsApp. For the past year this friend has lost alot of weight which we have all been supportive and proud of. Here's what irks me and I may sound ridiculous but it does bug me. She constantly and I mean constantly sends me selfies, body pics in underwear/new bikini ect and iv obviously commented and praised how she looks but now it's getting cringy. How do I tell her I really don't need or want pics of her? I'm not a picture person at all never have been so is it me? I don't have Instagram either so I find the whole thing weird and the constant need for validation embarrassing. She's a close family friend too so if I cut her out I would look horrible. Wwyd in this situation?

This would irk me too. Couple of solutions:
1 Don’t respond.
2 Whenever she sends you a pic, send a pic of yours back to her doing whatever; drinking coffee, wearing a new scarf, washing the car etc..
She will soon stop her shit.
3 Alternatively tell her that those pics are surely meant to be uploaded onto a dating site or were meant to be sent to her boyfriend/husband (depending whether she is is single or not) and she must have sent them to you by mistake.

Over a month or 6 weeks respond more and more slowly, until you stop responding at all.

If she’s still sending them a month after you stop responding, say - I am delighted you’ve lost the weight you wanted to, but I hope you don’t mind me saying I probably don’t need to see any more bikini shots.

Then mute her if that doesn’t work.

Then block her if you have to.

You could just jump to stage 2, but sounds like you’d rather try something gentler to start.

Does she fancy you :)

Like others say, I'd start responding less and less. Maybe start by just sending a thumbs up and then gradually just stop. She'll soon realise it's not very interesting for you.

Thank you for your responses I'm glad I'm not the only one that would feel like this. I have started to not respond but because she sends so many I feel like I have to respond to some of them if you see what I mean.
Sending her pics back is good actually don't know how she would react to thaat lol
Yes I feel like I will need to say something eventually it's just wierd.
Ha ha i bloody hope not!

I wouldn't send a written reply. I would just "like" the photo. You can heart it or thumbs up it on WhatsApp. She'll soon get bored of not getting the attention she wants. Would get on my tits too

Obviously you need to send her pictures of yourself in underwear

This is what the thumbs up emoji is for.

just send pics of your dog eating dinner, or cat asleep or something every time she sends one of herself!

Blimey- clearly is a bit insecure- either that or ego the size of a planet

The thumbs up emoji is great actually plus a bit of ignoring hopefully she will get the msg

That's so weird of her. I'd slowly stop responding to eventual silence