"Awkward Family Photos" Is An Account Where People Can Share, Well, Those (15 Pics)

I’m thankful every day I didn’t grow up in the time when everyone had a camera in their pocket. My mom already caused enough havoc with an old school camera. She’d even have me dress up in old-timey clothes and model.

It won an award. NBD.

Luckily there’s an account @awkwardfamilyphotos that takes submissions from thousands of people so we can commiserate, commemorate, and laugh together about them.

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“Not sure why my mom was using my sisters butt as a surface to eat from.” @jellehavermans

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Mar 5, 2020 at 5:00pm PST

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“This is my family, years ago. My mother wanted to show how musical of a family we were at the time.”

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Mar 5, 2020 at 9:01am PST

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“Australia, 1980s. This is my dad and baby me.”

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Mar 1, 2020 at 10:00pm PST

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“Glamour shots at Zellers in the mid nineties. My sister kept blinking when they took the photo so they told her to keep her eyes open.” @spaghetti_policy

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Mar 2, 2020 at 9:00am PST

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“Supposed to be professional photos, but the guy just set up a log and his assistant held up a fake branch (whose hand is in the frame) between my sister Suzy and I (I’m on the right).”

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Feb 28, 2020 at 10:00pm PST

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“My family when I was 10 months old.”

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Feb 24, 2020 at 10:00pm PST

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“I’m pretty sure this is when my fear of dolls started. 1974.” @smartassmommy

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Feb 23, 2020 at 10:00pm PST

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“Growing up, I did ballet and I performed in The Nutcracker more times than I can remember. This was the year I was a candy cane and also the year before I discovered tweezers, apparently. The photographer insisted that I caress the nutcracker doll, resulting in this creepy, borderline objectophilia gem.”

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Feb 21, 2020 at 9:00am PST

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“My dad Larry opened one of the first cell phone stores in Houston Texas and was known as “the cell phone kingpin.” I wish you could have seen the commercial that ran with him on a unicycle.”

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Feb 20, 2020 at 9:01am PST

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“This picture is of my little sister Noelle and me in 1996. I loved playing with my baby sister so I was holding her up in the air over my head, playing ‘airplane.’ My mom warned me not to play with her right after she ate. She was right. And she got a picture to prove her point.”

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Feb 18, 2020 at 5:00pm PST

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“When we were in St. Martin, I saw a great opportunity to take a nice picture of my husband and son. Right as I snapped the picture my son pinched my husband in a “sensitive spot”….the result was unexpected, classic, and very awkward!”

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Feb 11, 2020 at 9:00am PST

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“After spending a few hours getting ready for my junior prom (back in 1998), we had to do some family “portraits”. Apparently my father thought a bathrobe was appropriate attire for these.”

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Feb 9, 2020 at 9:00am PST

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“I’m finally at peace with this, 25 years later after Mother took me to a Sears portrait studio to memorialize my dance recital costume.” @bibliowench85

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Feb 4, 2020 at 9:30am PST

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“My siblings and I were forced into a ‘pet look alike’ competition. It still haunts us.”

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Jan 26, 2020 at 10:00pm PST

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“Not sure what the story is behind this, but I am sure I’ve incurred thousands of in therapy bills as a result of it.” @jarsondarvis

A post shared by Awkward Family Photos (@awkwardfamilyphotos) on Jan 24, 2020 at 10:00pm PST

“Awkward Family Photos” Is An Account Where People Can Share, Well, Those (15 Pics)

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