I have destroyed an awful lot of photos of myself.low ,no ,NO self esteem .When other folk show me pictures I'm in,sometimes I refuse to believe its me and sometimes I think I look fab .Thanks to my mother who had lovely nicknames for all my sisters about their looks but I was the one wth her head stuck in a book....or the one with legs like treetrunks(I was a very skinny size 6 at the time) or the one with the "family nose".
When I came across a photo taken at my late MIL's house 34 years ago I had to look twice ,I said to my OH I look OK in this ,he said you were stunning and your just as beautiful now .And he meant it .
I still have the very low self esteem though,think its ingrained .