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"I personally hate the picture and I am embarrassed to use it," said iReporter Ryan Fleeman, whose passport photo was taken in 2004 and shows a much more boyish face, complete with messy bangs and glasses.Ī friend who recently saw the picture for the first time told him he looked like a serial killer and "laughed hysterically," said Fleeman, 25, who lives in Alexandria, Virginia. "When I look at the photo, I feel proud that I lost the weight, but I also feel like I'm a new person."Īnd then there are those photos from long ago that you wish you could just forget. But they say, 'Oh, you've lost a lot of weight, what happened? How did you do it?' " said Strauss, 22, who lives in St. "Obviously, from my facial structure they can still tell it's me. She's lost 240 pounds since then, prompting comments from Border Patrol agents when she recently returned from a trip to Japan. IReporter Kayla Strauss weighed about 400 pounds when her passport photo was taken four years ago. Sometimes, the changes can reflect a serious transformation in a traveler's life. But Wilson, 23, now sports very short hair. His passport photo - taken in 2007 when he was a college freshman - shows a mass of curls surrounding his face à la Robert Plant.
"I feel like if I go through customs, they're maybe going to look at me and be like, 'Are we sure this is the same person?' Because I do look drastically different," said iReporter Brian Wilson, a student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. So what happens when you don't resemble your passport photo anymore? Worse, you fear it could force Border Patrol agents to do a double-take at the airport when they see the real you. Now, it's an image that makes your friends giggle. Maybe the Goth look seemed like the coolest thing ever at the time.
Perhaps you were at the height of your facial hair experiment phase. Maybe you were just recovering from a tragic haircut when that fateful picture was taken. But then you open your passport and there it is on : A blast from the past staring back at you. You wear the latest styles and present your best side to the world. (CNN) - You think of yourself as a reasonably hip, attractive person.
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