# Your worst childhood photo. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 3, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706 "2005-03-03T04:11:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/1 "2005-03-03T04:11:40Z")
I there’s no hiding that I was an ugly kid. Really, I was a very ugly kid. [this](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/MachTurtle/Oogly.jpg) ugly. That’s me at 11 years old. What’s up with the hair? I think I was trying to grow it out, but I don’t know what’s going on with the random wings everywhere. And that smile. I look like a Cabbage Patch Kid. And WTF is going on with that _sweater?_ Are those CAMELS? And _ELEPHANTS???_ Gotta love the colour, too. Is there a name for that? Only baby poop comes to mind. And I love the turquoise socks with the duck boots. I was a big.frickin.fashion.plate. No wonder I was a target for bullies. :rolleyes: Okay, I revealed this horror to you all. Have you got a childhood photo that you truly can’t stand? ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/2 "2005-03-03T04:15:49Z")
Don’t have a photo to post, but I do have one word… Lederhosen. 'nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/3 "2005-03-03T05:11:58Z")
There’s one of me about a minute old, screaming and bloody. I’m not really happy about that one. And then, every picture taken between, say, age 7 and age 21. And most of them after that. I was an extremely cute kid, but a wretchedly ugly adolescent. I still don’t photograph well, but am told I am quite attractive, nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/4 "2005-03-03T05:25:00Z")
I’m not posting my 8th grade school photo. Ugly sweater, ugly haircut, big huge ugly 80’s-style glasses, and so much metal glued to my teeth it’s a wonder I could close my lips around it all. Yuuckh. I’m smiling, but I don’t look happy; I look like I just bit into a handful of Hershey’s Kisses without taking the tinfoil off first. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/5 "2005-03-03T05:26:33Z")
[This](http://www.mortalwombat.com/Image/Science_Fair_1962.jpg) is my least favorite photo of my youth. I hate the cat-eye glasses. I hate the attempted bouffant hairdo. I hate the memory of having been a pathetic nerdette who didn’t get asked on a date until college. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/6 "2005-03-03T05:45:29Z")
I don’t have a copy of the photo, but does the phrase “pink leisure suit” mean anything to you? ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/7 "2005-03-03T05:47:31Z")
Blah. I have no non-awful childhood pictures. I was horribly cross-eyed as a kid. Short and pudgy. With bad hair and bad clothes. I’m not bitter, though… ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/8 "2005-03-03T05:49:40Z")
There is a school photo circa grade 3 that involves a self-inflicted haircut. Down the memory hole. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/9 "2005-03-03T05:49:43Z")
There is a picture of my brothers, sister and I, that I have promised to set fire to, if given a moment alone with it. It was taken mid-summer of my 11th year. All of us must have been playing in the vacant lot across the street from our house (Detroit). We were all wearing cut-offs and tanktops, we were dusty, hair unkempt (and we all had afros) and skinny. Except for the pot bellies, we could have been poster childs for one of those “just $0.10 a day wil help feed, clothe…” commercials. Guess what photo my Mom drug out when she met my wife. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/10 "2005-03-03T06:24:40Z")
I have a lovely photograph taken just after my confirmation (in 1973). I’m standing with my hands clasped in prayer, and looking very pious. Unfortunately I’m also wearing purple flairs, a tight paisley shirt and a hideous shaggy haircut. It really was the decade without taste. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/11 "2005-03-03T06:33:46Z")
When I was 9 or so I was playing football in the yard with my brother. I fell and hit my chin on the driveway, scraping out a big chunk, a week before picture day. Worse than the huge oozing scab on my face, I was wearing a purple polo and rainbow suspenders. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/12 "2005-03-03T06:57:00Z")
When I was about 11 years old, my sister (two years younger than I) got a camera for Christmas. She was walking around the house taking pictures, and decided to open the bathroom door and snap a photo of me as I was in the bathtub. The view of my naked backside was developed and returned without any problems – of course, that was the early 1970’s. Today, a similar shot would probably be seized as evidence in a child pornography case. Although I’d consider that judicial overkill, I wouldn’t mind having my sister brought up even today on charges of “causing abject embarrassment” or something of that nature. Of course, even if such a law were passed, it wouldn’t be made retroactive. Just my luck… ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/13 "2005-03-03T07:14:37Z")
My mother was telling me when I was just an infant I was fat and a TOTAL pig. The nurses even had to take my bottle away fromme just to keep from eating too much! Anyway my mom took a picture of me once sitting outside on our front yard, I was eating a snicker bar with chocolate ALL over my face. And to make matters worse I was soo fat that I couldn’t sit up on my own. So when they took the picture my mom had to keep her hand on my back to keep he from falling back ovver. (I was old enough that I should have learned to sit up on my own long ago) ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/14 "2005-03-03T08:53:27Z")
There’s a picture of me at nine years old in a Speedo. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/15 "2005-03-03T09:31:13Z")
Lessee. I had no fashion sense until the age of 14/15 so there’s plenty of me in rainbow striped t-shirts. And for a while I had long hair. Which I used to gel… …I think I burned all of those. ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/16 "2005-03-03T09:46:46Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > I there’s no hiding that I was an ugly kid. Really, I was a very ugly kid. [this](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/MachTurtle/Oogly.jpg) ugly. That’s me at 11 years old. > > What’s up with the hair? I think I was trying to grow it out, but I don’t know what’s going on with the random wings everywhere. And that smile. I look like a Cabbage Patch Kid. > > And WTF is going on with that _sweater?_ Are those CAMELS? And _ELEPHANTS???_ Gotta love the colour, too. Is there a name for that? Only baby poop comes to mind. And I love the turquoise socks with the duck boots. I was a big.frickin.fashion.plate. No wonder I was a target for bullies. :rolleyes: > > Okay, I revealed this horror to you all. Have you got a childhood photo that you truly can’t stand? Have you considered quite how much like Little Jimmy Osmond you look in that pic? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sweetfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@sweetfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweetfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/17 "2005-03-03T11:39:54Z")
I don’t have any pics of me as a kid that I can post here, but picture this: Pink plaid pants. Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/18 "2005-03-03T12:15:20Z")
There is a picture of me somewhere, wearing the bad colors and clothing of 1969 (or so) in which I have the mumps. So my neck is swollen as if I have swallowed a small basketball. Other than that I was a fairly cute kid. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/19 "2005-03-03T12:21:23Z")
Awwwwww, **Amazon** , you were _cute_!! If you look even cuter now, that doesn’t make you ugly back then. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706/20 "2005-03-03T13:54:04Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > [This](http://www.mortalwombat.com/Image/Science_Fair_1962.jpg) is my least favorite photo of my youth. I hate the cat-eye glasses. I hate the attempted bouffant hairdo. I hate the memory of having been a pathetic nerdette who didn’t get asked on a date until college. I would’ve asked you on a date! You look cute in that picture. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-worst-childhood-photo/292706.md?page=2)