Look worse in photos than in real life.

[FluWorldOrder]

I know the saying "the camera adds ten pounds" but honestly! I started weight training in January and have done a workout 4 times a week since then. Yes this isn't very long but I am not overweight. I just need to build a bit of muscle to look "toned". My "progress pictures" are horrible! I don't feel that's what I actually look like at all. I look.. not great. It's disheartening.

Do you feel you look significantly worse in pictures than you do in real life? Solidarity needed 😵‍💫😭

This isn't even mentioning my face at all. I have never been photogenic and take a terrible picture.

Oh yes! At least I’ve always hoped I do, given how awful my photos are…. My DH says it’s a good job we met before internet dating.

I went abroad a couple of months ago with my DD. On the way back through passport control, the young (and actually very attractive) passport control chap looked at my passport, looked me up and down and said “I must say, you look better in real life!”. DD was mortified; I guffawed…..

Do you feel you look significantly worse in pictures than you do in real life?

Yes, me.

I look so bad in photos that it makes DH really laugh.
He says if i looked like that in reality he'd never have dated me 😳

I never know weather to find that a comfort or not ..... 🤔

Yes!!! My god my face is shocking in photos - my face needs fluidity and movement otherwise it's awful. Otherwise I look nice in real life!

Yes, me! The camera seems to smooth out any angles in my face and I just look like a round puffy blob when I really don't think I look that bad in the mirror!

I don't look great in real life - not quite 'point and laugh' bad, but bad enough to have quite a complex about how unattractive I am. But in photos - Holy Fuck do I look dreadful! I am on record as saying that I look like my dad in a bad wig, but I actually look worse! No chin, HUGE nose and teeth that go on for days.

I try to avoid having my picture taken for that reason.

I look ok in the mirror (at least I think I do) but haggard and old in photos 😭.

I always looked worse in photos unfortunately I look just as shit in real life now.

Definitely me! I have small piggy eyes in photos, that I don't see when I'm looking in a mirror

Oh yes!

I duck whenever I see a camera.☹️

I'm reasonably attractive IRL, but look like an absolute troll in photos. Always have.

Some people really don’t photograph well. One of my best friends is so pretty in real life but looks awful in photos, it’s so weird. Then there are other people who look average in real life but are extremely photogenic (models usually!) I’m not sure if it’s bone structure or posture or what?

Me! It used to get me down but I read somewhere that some people are just like the moon.

No .matter how glorious it looks if you try and take a photo of it on your phone it just looks shit.

Yep. I'm not beautiful but I refuse to believe that I actually look like the camera suggests. I refuse to have photos taken. Makes me quite sad because I have very few pictures of me and my kids and when I die there'll be nothing. But I can't bear to have my photo taken to the point that it reduces me to tears.

Yes! I look at least 3 stone heavier in full length photos. I've always been the same, ever since I was a child. I was always the largest one in the class photos yet I wasn't in real life. I hate it and avoid full length shots with a passion. I only look reasonable in photos from the shoulders up (I've got quite a good shoulder line, or so I've been told).

I assumed I was deluded but I never photograph well. I think my face needs fluidity too - I like that comment from a previous poster as it makes sense to me.

Sympathies. I am the least photogenic woman in the world 🤣

This is a great analogy!

Some of these replies are making me laugh 😂 glad I'm not the only one.

Just be glad it’s not the other way round. I have two friends who are utterly convinced they look amazing. Always. One keeps talking about men flirting with her because they can’t help themselves. Both of them are kind of ok in photos but in real life are literally just normal looking middle aged women (which is great!) but who are convinced that they are both Claudia Schiffer or Naomi Campbell!!

Sorry.. but I think that's my title 🏅 lol. I really am so unphotogenic it's depressing.

3 stone!? Jeepers. Yeh that sucks. Honestly I feel I definitely look a lot heavier in my photos than I actually am. It's really annoying isn't it.

I look ok irl but take a photo and somehow I morph into a vampire I look that pasty white🤣

@FluWorldOrder
I dread having my photos taken now

As an child growing i didn't mind having my photo taken i was OK about the idea,

I am convinced since i have become older i am not as pretty or acctractive anymore ..

I have quite big boobs, but when they're in a photo they look absolutely ginormous! Centre stage. TITS!! Like i've got a pair of actual water melons jammed up my top.

The camera seems to make my head look tiny and as if it's about a meter behind the boobs like the dogs with big noses in the foreground photos. It makes me feel even more self conscious about them!

I seem to be attractive enough in real life but in a photo you would swear that I fell out of an ugly tree and hit every branch before hitting the ground. 😂

Loads of photos are edited so generally people look way worse in real life. Because of this I often hear that I’m really pretty in real life. I think I’m pretty in photos as well just not edited to high heavens.