None of them are fat!

[luvmyfam444]

So with the Facebook reconnections I've made with my old highschool classmates I have noticed that NONE of them are fat! Did they not get the memo? The pretty ones, homecoming/prom queen aren't they all supposed to turn out fat?

I sure am dreading my 20yr reunion this summer with all those beautiful women - and hardly any of them look like they've aged much either!

 

[paintnolish]

Maybe they are older pictures. Hee, hee a lot of the skinny ones are a little chunkier now while I am a little thinner than I was in HS.

 

[FireDancer]

Some of them might be using a little facebook voodoo. That is what we call it when people use strange camera angels to make themselves look thinner or taller. They might also have 5 year old pics up there or they might have found the magic of Photoshop, the poor man's airbrushing.

 

[dislaney]

So with the Facebook reconnections I've made with my old highschool classmates I have noticed that NONE of them are fat! Did they not get the memo? The pretty ones, homecoming/prom queen aren't they all supposed to turn out fat?

I sure am dreading my 20yr reunion this summer with all those beautiful women - and hardly any of them look like they've aged much either!

Maybe they are photoshopping their pictures..

 

[NMAmy]

At my 20 year reunion, it was the men who had really changed since high school, not the women. There was a guy that I'd known since kindergarten (our moms were good friends so we saw a lot of each other as kids) that I flat out didn't recognize. He'd been very skinny and had long hair in high school. Twenty years later, he wasn't fat but had bulked up and had begun shaving his head when he started losing his hair. He was very kind about the totally blank look on my face when he started talking to me.

I don't recall any women having gained a lot of weight at my 20th.

 

[mtemm]

At my 20 year reunion, it was the men who had really changed since high school, not the women. There was a guy that I'd known since kindergarten (our moms were good friends so we saw a lot of each other as kids) that I flat out didn't recognize. He'd been very skinny and had long hair in high school. Twenty years later, he wasn't fat but had bulked up and had begun shaving his head when he started losing his hair. He was very kind about the totally blank look on my face when he started talking to me.

I don't recall any women having gained a lot of weight at my 20th.

same here! the men all looked much older, many bald or pudgy, but the women looked great for the most part!

 

[dizluvah]

shoot...you must not have gone to school with me! I am a fatty now and I do as another poster stated and make sure I take my shots with the camera above and looking down - my camera is built in to my laptop so I put the laptop on the tv tray and sit on the floor - with the downward angle it seems to hide a chin or something - don't know why it works but it does!

Also try not too be anxious about your 20 year reunion - go have fun - everyone else will be too worried about their perceived shortcomings to be judging anyone else. Life is about being happy and contrary to what the magazines want to us to believe we can have happy fulfilling lives with a few extra pounds on us.

 

[luvmy3]

Starvation and Botox

 

[Pig Pen]

I am VERY selective when posting facebook pics. I have been known to squish them a bit! I have one school friend who looked awesome in her pics but close-up and in person she was looking pretty haggard! Don't worry. Someone will always be fatter, grayer, or more wrinkled. (That's what i tell myself whenever i go to the beach).

 

[DizBelle]

If you're dreading it, don't go.

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

Go to your reunion and have fun.....and bring cupcakes

 

[pilesoflaundry]

Go to your reunion and have fun.....and bring cupcakes

I am selective about what I post on facebook too. Only the better angles get posted.

 

[SamRoc]

Went to my 25th and was surprised to see how beautiful the women looked and how "different" the guys looked! Don't want to be mean but they had gained a little weight and lost most of their hair. The ladies looked great!

 

[ZachnElli]

Our homecoming queen was a good friend of mine. She did gain 50lbs during a bad marriage. She's divorced now and dropped every single one of those pounds! Check their relationship status's, if they got divorced and hit the dating scene again, they tend to lose the weight!

 

[Art 1]

If you're dreading it, don't go.

I would have to agree.

 

[Robinrs]

I'd be more concerned if they were happy or doing okay... why must people compare themselves so much?

Go, have fun!

 

[stahshee]

maybe they used picknik on the pictures

 

[bumbershoot]

From my experience...

1. older pictures

2. they've had "work" done

3. they have worked their butts off for their figure

4. older pictures



I dreaded my 10th and 20th reunions just b/c I am a shy person and was worried about how I'd be perceived...but I had fun, more at the 20th than the 10th.

I did go on a fairly extreme diet for the 20th...lost a bunch (gained it back, drat, now I'm exercising and it's going to be better for me). Several people at my reunion said that I looked JUST the same...that was nice to hear. Though they were also saying my hair was the same, and it was NOT the same, but that's OK, there's not a lot to do with curly hair if you don't want to straighten it.


About number 2....I'm sure many more people at the 20th had had work done than I knew. But two stood out. One woman had had so much work done that she was unrecognizable to all but those who knew her currently. She was wearing a deep v-neck dress with a halter...and NO bra...that made it pretty obvious she'd had at least ONE bit of work done...10 year reunion that could still be natural...20 year? Hmm.

The second...I didn't know she'd had any surgery. So I just hated her, just as I'd hated her since junior HS (long time girlfriend of one of my long-term crushes through school), because she still looked perfect. But then at one point, I found out later, DH and DS came looking for me (ticket was too expensive for DH to go as well, and kids weren't allowed, so they sat in the hotel room). Couldn't find me, and on the way back up in the elevator DH got to talking with a woman. She found out who he was, she knew me (shock!), and she went on about how much work she'd had done to look decent for the reunion. Oh what a lovely story....



Anyway...don't be weirded out if you're heavier than you think they are. If THEY were heavy, would you like them less? If no, then they probably won't like you less, just b/c you're carrying a bit extra. Go; you might have a good time! I loved reconnecting with some people, especially one old friend. Even though I was a wreck the months leading up to it, and I felt fat the whole time and worried my bra was showing (weird dress), I did have a really good time and I was glad I went.

Even though the cheerleaders/reunion coordinators still (still!) insisted on SCREAMING at us. Actually, that was funny, because one of them used a very naughty word in her pleas to get us to shush...when it was their sound system's fault..couldn't even hear their shrieks if you were 20+ feet from the speakers.

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

Okay, really?
I don't even know what to say.

 

[mumom95]

So with the Facebook reconnections I've made with my old highschool classmates I have noticed that NONE of them are fat! Did they not get the memo? The pretty ones, homecoming/prom queen aren't they all supposed to turn out fat?

I sure am dreading my 20yr reunion this summer with all those beautiful women - and hardly any of them look like they've aged much either!

I was a bridesmaid in a friends wedding 4 years ago. I lost a decent amount of weight before the wedding (knowing there would be pictures that I would not be able to just delete). One of the pictures taken was the best picture of me I've ever had taken in my life.

Since then, I've put most of the weight back on (story of my life) but guess what picture is on my facebook page. Yep, the one from 4 years ago.

I have a friend from high school whose picture is gorgeous on her facebook page. Found out it was taken 15 years ago. She has changed a lot since then (so much that I didn't even recognize her now)

So, don't believe that all the pictures are current, unless they are recently posted and say something like "Christmas 2009).