Flaunt It Friday Foto Flashbacks

I love this week’s Flaunt It Challenge! 

Taking into account that, for some of us this is a holiday week and a week of thanksgiving at that, I searched high and low for a rather lighthearted and unusually fun post with which to challenge my Flaunt It Friends.  Fortunately, I didn’t have to look far beyond the large manila envelope sitting just above the office desktop, busting at its seams with ancient photos. What could be more fun than a Flaunt It Friday Foto Flashback?!

I am certain that each one of us has at least two ancient photos in her treasured keep. 

First, there’s one photo in which you are at the absolute haaaawtest you ever were! You secretly pull this out every so often and reminisce on days before marriage and children. This is the one that should be blown up and posted on the front of the fridge or the inside the pantry door as a diet aide. It is also a source of frustration and sheer depression when you realize that you will never look that good again! Ha!

Second, there’s the photo that spontaneously elicits an emphatic “what the hell was I thinking?!”  This is the one that you are seriously tempted to tear into tiny little pieces and burn in an attempt to forget that it (or you in that state) ever existed! It’s the kind of stuff that they post in Classmates ads and the one that your kids get a huge kick out of when they finally get hold of your old yearbooks! EEK!

So here’s the dare for this Flaunt It Friday… I double dog dare you to share those two photos and any others that you would like to throw in just for fun! Please, be sure to expound on the beauty of each if you have the time.  Flashback photos inevitably prompt some memory or another!  Are you ready for this?

Here are my photos…

Here I am at one of the hottest moments in my life.  Disgustingly skinny, age twenty, event model, hottie.  This photo, one of a series, was snapped by my then hotter than hot, body-building, Italian Stallion high school sweetheart, Prom king, turned fiancé. I was also body building with him at the time.  It was a do or die situation.  Either I had to send him off to Gold’s Gym every evening to gawk at the bottom-flossing, tight-wearing aerobics instructors strutting around the place, or I had to don a bottom-flossing, tight-wearing outfit myself, get educated about using free weights and spot for him while he did bench presses (well not really, we usually employed the help of some other bulky hulky for that part of the workout). I chose the latter and gained some buff in the process. Nota bene to Hubby: don’t be jealous, darling. After all, I left him to join the convent! Poor guy!

I truly did want to post my senior prom queen photo for this half of the challenge, but I just couldn’t dig it up.  I’ll have to scour mom’s collection sometime soon if I can.  You’ll just have to settle for my way more than embarrassing senior yearbook photo. Ha! Like all good senior yearbook photos it was snapped by a pro sometime during my junior year?  I remember that it was done on the stage in the cafeteria during lunch (of all places!) and I more than remember being hugely distracted during the shoot. I also recall getting completely reprimanded by mom for having such a wrinkled shirt on that day.  You should notice the interesting combination of three earrings in my left ear. Seriously, what the hell was I thinking?!

I’m throwing this photo in just for giggles.  This is from the same famous fiancé photo shoot as the first.  I couldn’t resist when I noticed precisely how out of control my eyebrows were back then.  Take a closer look… notice how much makeup I was wearing? No, I did not have under eye wrinkles at age twenty and no, my wrinkles are still not that bad today. That was caked on makeup! Ha!

Done. Ok ladies, I am soooooooooooo looking forward to seeing what you all come up with for our Foto Flashback Flaunt It! I don’t even care if I have to wait until Monday for it.  Remember to link back to this page and invite some others to do the same.

Thanks for playing!