to think the woman in the pictures that DH takes is fugly and old

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and not me - she looks like someone who might have eaten me to be fair and my children seem to like her

who is this woman?

sigh

She jumps out in front of me whenever I look in the mirror.

I like the cut of your jib McSnail.

Yes, I am shocked by my Body Dismorphia in Reversia. In my head I am glam, slim and glowing,with a great smile, but in reality I am shabby, plump and drab, with gappy teeth.

It is rather depressing, but I am doing something about it.

Plump. Nothing pleasant about it. I am plump.

I know her! The chubby ol moo does it to me as well .

This woman talks funny as well. In any of our home videos, for some reason you can't hear my lilting Scottish accent sounding like a softly flowing river. You can, however, hear a cross between Lorraine Kelly and Rab C Nesbit's wife. Not only is she ugly she's common as muck too.

Oh I thought that every time your dh tryed to take a photo your MIL rushed over - and that was why the dc knew her..!

fancy being your own MIL - yuk

There must be more than one.

The one who follows me, sabotaging all photos and film, looks like Waynetta Slob's mum but sounds like Joanna Lumley.

It is the face book monster. I makes sober, elegant, young, slim, people look drunk, scruffy, old, and fat. I know it happened to me.

Sithmummy! I have the same one! Joanna Lumley with a nervous giggle! Mine looks a bit like Vicki from Little Britain (sometimes in nicer clothes). How very dare she?

I noticed this phenomenon in my daughter's wedding photos. She managed to totally obscure me in every photo I was in - she has a surprising ability because she's obviously shorter than I am. Today I decided to start cataloguing all the books we have here (because she obviously hides books, so I don't even know if I have what I'm looking for or not) and used my dictaphone. She even got in there - ye gods, she sounds boring.

However, people should know that she's everywhere. I first discovered the existence of this evil witch via a piece of writing by a woman called Rose Mula: www.ladyjayes.com/strangeoldlady.html.

Does she have fluffy/ frizzy hair that makes her look deranged? Does she have jowls and several chins and a grumpy looking mouth with too much lipstick on? If so that's the woman who has been jumping out in front of me too,she must make a career of frightening sleep-deprived mothers.

I'm sorry for you but I can empathise: my DP is a keen photographer and he seems to have turned me into a lumpen, snaggle-toothed, droopy-eyed hag.

I hate her.

Grinning away as if she's part of the family or something. She even gets people to put their arms round her.

It is just sick.

oooooooohhhhh.........I know this woman! She likes to loiter around department store changing rooms and jumps out just as you go to look in the mirror. She's also been known to follow me into the ladies loos when I am out on the razzle. Now I know damn well that I look like a sultry sexpot when I'm out - even after a glass of wine or three but she just gets in the way of the mirror all the time. What can we do about her????

I think my mother comes back from the grave specifically to scare me in changing room mirrors.

my camera hogger looks a exactly like an old saggy worn out cushion, which for some strange reason is wearing my really nice freshwater pearl necklace.

ohforfoxsake, you also have reverse body dysmorphia. I really thought that was just me. I go out thinking I look just fine and then catch sight of myself on a CCTV monitor and ... ugh!!

DH took some pics of me with DD at the seaside today. Not pretty. I've been trying to lose weight and feeling pretty pleased with myself. Not anymore. A bit limited with the dieting though as am breastfeeding (DD is 4 months). Running gives me black eyes