Double Dog Dare…Done.

February 9, 2011

I am very comfortable behind a camera. Though I still (Yes, STILL. Sigh.) use an old point and shoot camera whose left side is held together by hot pink duct tape, I take lots and lots of pictures. When I tell people that I went away for three days and took five hundred pictures, they are shocked, but that’s how it is: I’ve always tried to capture just about everything when I have my camera with me.

Though I do hand the camera over to someone else so I can appear with my family in front of it (wouldn’t want the kids to think their mom was never around!), I’m not super-crazy about being the subject of photographs by myself; it’s awkward for me. I don’t consider myself to be very photogenic, really.

When my sister took pictures of me a couple of weeks ago for my book cover, I was very comfortable working with her (duh), but she still had to remind me to relax and have fun (and that I was a lemur). I mentioned, when I wrote about the experience, that the last time I had done a photo shoot all by myself was in 1988, at the ripe old age of twenty (yeah, do the math. I’m old.) at Glamour Shots.

THEN the floodgates opened and people started begging me to post my Glamour Shots picture.

Are you kidding me? That was a lifetime ago. I was CUTE then, for goodness sakes–dare I say, adorable!

I had no plans to post the picture. And then Rita had to go and double dog dare me, after she posted her OWN Glamour Shots picture, which you MUST see.

In fact, I’ll wait. Click here so Rita’s blog opens up in another window, and look at her Glamour Shots picture, and then you may continue reading. (My blog, my rules.)

Anyway, after a few days of taunting me, Rita finally promised that, if I posted my own picture, she would flood the comments with compliments, and who wouldn’t want that? (Anyway, I really do like the picture. I vividly remember looking at all of my proofs, many of them including that silly feather boa–sorry Rita!–and telling the Glamour Shots person, “No, no, no…the boa really isn’t me. The leather jacket pictures really look more like my style.” As if I have ever had style in my life…)

Here you go. No laughing, please.

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16 Comments

  • Megryansmom

    February 9, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    OK first of all, you're not old. I did the math, in my head, thankyouverymuch and…wait, do I really want to say I'm 6 years older than you? Sigh…I'm OLD!

    Sorry, this is supposed to be all about you…

    You look beautiful! No better than beautiful, you look mahhhhvelous!

  • WeaselMomma

    February 9, 2011 at 1:03 pm

    I LOVE that you posted this pic! You do look nothing short of adorable, but this pic makes me laugh (Not at you, but with you) because of the 80's throwback aspect.

    Thanks for putting yourself out there and you are just as gorgeous now as you were back in the day.

  • NYCPatty

    February 9, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    I LOVE IT! You are so adorable! You HOT 20 year old. I have to find my high school picture because my hair is equally full and they gave us this black top to put on that almost looked like an evening dress. Guess that was out "glamour shot!"

    I'm so glad you posted it! 🙂

  • Colleen

    February 9, 2011 at 4:09 pm

    Oh honey – what a HOTTIE you are!!! MROW!!!!! Definitely agree that the leather jacket was a better choice!

  • Heather E

    February 9, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    Look how hot you are! I always wanted to do Glamour Shots but I was "too young" according to my mom. FAIL. I love the red lips you're sporting- SUPER sexy 🙂

  • Michelle

    February 14, 2011 at 4:00 am

    It's gorgeous. I was just jealous when I was poking fun at your disrobing via email. And I have to admit… I've never ever worn a tube top. Never had it to do it. *sigh* Gorgeous photo 🙂 And still gorgeous today!