23 Awkward Family Photos We Can't Help but Love

Hello From the 80s

Nosotros are so used to gadgets plumbing equipment in the palm of our hand we tend to forget that old phones used to be the size of Mountain Rushmore.

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We aren't going to make fun of the one-time technology, but we are definitely going to laugh at how they idea this was a legitimate concept for a photograph shoot. Oh, and for having one of the kids hold *two* phones for some reason.

The Tree House

Trees are nifty. They provide shade, oxygen and are more often than not a hoot to be around. They are too fantastic for squeamish photo ops. Except there is nada nice about this photograph op.

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And to call back of all the trouble this family unit went through to have this photograph! The matching dress, climbing, balancing on that branch... Let's hope they didn't use it as a Christmas card.

Lamaze Classes All-Effectually

Okay, we know what this looks like. But before we first judging this family for their poor choice of photoshoot concept, nosotros have to admire some of the physical abilities displayed here.

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Someone here is evidently paying attention during Pilates. How else would you lot explicate strength and flexibility? We bet this family's core muscles could crush steel.

Cool Cucumbers

Well, "cool" may not be the first discussion that jumps to mind. What words practise jump? "Mustache" for a showtime. Adjacent would be an "sick-fitted blazer," and nosotros best proceed the residual of our associations to ourselves.

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Also, is it only us, or does the guy in the middle look exactly like a younger Russel Crowe? It looks like fourth dimension travel IS existent!

Mazed and Confused

Oh god, where do we even begin? How about the galaxy background that must accept been designed by someone under the influence of illegal substances?

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Then at that place are the parents to this furbaby cosplaying every bit each other. And finally, the poor, poor kitty with its former private parts on display for the world to see. Not much to exercise but shake our heads.

See the Rainbows

Nosotros love the delivery of this colorful family, although we practise have a complaint to submit. We'd like to give them a perfect x. Nosotros really would. But with all due respect, it seems like they haven't thought this through.

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If you go through the trouble of dying everyone's hair and painting anybody's faces, you could accept tried getting some matching shoes (or matching socks at the very least).

The Camera's up Here

Ahh, puberty. The hormones, the acne, the awkward... everything. We're happy for this pair of twins to have each other through this difficult fourth dimension. Nosotros exercise retrieve, all the same, they need some parental guidance.

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You lot know, the kind of guidance to teach them that you're not supposed to vesture t-shirts to a wedding or stare at the bride's cleavage.

All Bawl, No Bite

What a sweet family unit. What nice, friendly kids. What well-mannered dogs. Okay, scratch the dogs' part. These two are obviously at each other'due south throats.

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Our but question is, what did the poor brother exercise to deserve being placed correct in the middle of this state of war zone? And why does everyone seem then happy virtually information technology?

Just Kidding

Okay, this we tin get behind. Yes, this eyesore makes you lot blench in every possible manner. Yet, it was washed every bit a joke.

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The parents and kids staged the whole thing to make fun of this kind of past-time family portraits. Good job, guys. Nosotros crown you equally Cringe Kings of the year.

Mullet Mania

We used to think that growing out your bangs was the most agonizing affair your hair can put you lot through. We now sympathise we were wrong. Recovering from a mullet sounds even worse.

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Our hearts get out to the child. Middle schoolhouse is enough of a trauma to live through even without this questionable option of hairstyle.

Goat Milk?

This female parent to be probably woke upwards thinking, "oh yay, I'1000 getting my pregnancy photoshoot today!" She then proceeded to expect over the list of things she needed for information technology.

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White dress? Bank check. Bloom crown? Check. Grassy location? Check. Fancy goat model with toilet paper scarves and a smaller flower crown? Check. Good chore, daughter!

Jumping for Joy

Family photoshoots are more most the parents than the kids. The grown-ups are the only ones interested in making perfectly-framed memories. The kids are unremarkably more interested in getting cereal and watching "Frozen" for the hundredth fourth dimension.

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This is plainly the example with these 3 kiddos in the motion-picture show. We promise their parents got the hint.

Um, what?!

It looks like the tradition of making awkward family photos dates farther back than we even realized. And male child, do we have questions!

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When did this happen? Why is the guy in the chair facing the dorsum? Whose thought was it to position those people that mode? Why is the woman on the left property a broom, and where can we become a pair of those funky sunglasses?

No Tube Tops, Please

This listing contains lots of pictures that are across salvation. This one, withal, isn't a major-scale catastrophe.

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Most of the disaster could accept been averted if the mom would simply accept said cheese when she was asked to. Throw in a shirt that covers the shoulders to avoid the nude illusion, and you're golden.

The Plunging World Championship

Every school has one kid who's friends with the janitor. It's actually kind of cute. This kind of friendship is what brought on "The Queen'south Gambit."

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This very well may be the case here. Before we know it, this little girl might exist winning the Plunging Globe Championship!

Plow upwardly the Volume

Big, voluminous hair was all the rage in the 80s. The bigger, the improve. Just inquire Bonnie Tyler. These ii were just keeping upwardly with the trends.

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Still, nosotros can't assistance simply wishing someone told them all that volume was just besides loud.

Doing His Own Thing

It doesn't have more than a glimpse of this pic to know what'due south the parenting fashion of this chill mom and dad duo. The white suits can't fool us. We know they're hippies at heart.

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Only true hippies would permit their child wearable a total-on mask (of... what is it, actually?) on Picture Mean solar day.

Too Cool

This family is the epitome of cool. I mean, they're wearing sunglasses, so they must be cool, right? Isn't that a common law?

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We'll be right back. We just demand to check the world's rule volume if the glasses *must* be paired with an I'm-better-than-you facial expression.

The Floater

Ane of the almost questionable norms in studio-pictures of the past is the floating caput. For some reason, there was always one member of the pack who needed to have his/her head blown upward and facing a unlike direction.

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At present what we'd really similar to know is how they decide who that person is. Is it arbitrary? Is there a lottery? A challenge to complete? We bet there's a reality testify involved.

Don't Expect Her in the Centre

If horror movies have taught us anything, it is to never trust a little blond girl with murder in her eyes.

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While most of the family seems like pretty nice, friendly people, we have a feeling this lilliputian girl takes after her big blood brother. Soon, that student would become his master.

Russian Dolls

When mommy and daddy love each other very much, they go to the shop and become a child they could love together. Every once in a while, that child opens upwards to reveal some other, similar-yet-smaller child.

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Hither we have a rare example of that Russian-doll state of affairs, where the parents got 7 matching kids for the cost of i! How extraordinary!

Tree-Topper

Everybody gather around, the cameraman is hither! Make certain y'all're wearing your finest dress and looking like the near distinguished version of yourselves.

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What's that? Uncle Joe doesn't fit in the frame? Merely stick him upwards on the tree or something. That's improve. Now say cheese!

How-do-you-do From the 80s

We are so used to gadgets plumbing equipment in the palm of our manus nosotros tend to forget that old phones used to be the size of Mount Rushmore.

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We aren't going to make fun of the one-time technology, but nosotros are definitely going to express mirth at how they thought this was a legitimate concept for a photo shoot. Oh, and for having one of the kids hold *2* phones for some reason.

Beach Day

Someone clicked the camera at the absolute worst moment. Or the absolute best, depending on your sense of sense of humor.

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This flick only gets improve the more you expect at information technology. The tripping surfer is manifestly the best part, but when you look at each private face in this film, it becomes pure gold.

I Did Non Sign up for This

About of the pictures on this list weren't meant to look awkward. That's exactly what makes them awkward. Simply this one is great for the opposite reason.

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While everyone was in it for a goofy, twisted motion picture, one of them remained grouchy and did not even fissure a grin. He must be fun at parties.

Flannel Fans

If nosotros didn't know any better, we'd think these kids are 2 of the three members of Hanson. That shiny blonde pilus almost fooled us.

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Just the Hansons weren't camera shy, and the little kid in the front is evidently very uncomfortable. The poor thing needs a change of wearing apparel and a skillful hug.

You Tin't Win Them All The pictures on this listing are usually awkward because of the people. The family in this one, yet, has null wrong about them.

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They are all looking at the camera, no i'due south eyes are closed, and in that location are no awkward hairstyles to regret in the future. Also bad the pooch in the background didn't get the memo on Motion-picture show 24-hour interval.

Window Shooting

We meet what you did there. Information technology'south really kind of bright when you think about it — congenital-in individual frames! How genius!

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Notwithstanding, information technology seems that some members of this family don't appreciate the innovation and decided to look like that stalker out your window...

Don't Forget Rufus!

Oh, Film Twenty-four hours. Happy times. Recollect how we used to plan our outfits for weeks in advance and made sure to wash our hair the solar day before?

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Information technology was glorious. The whole family would come together, prepare a backdrop, say cheese... and realize something's missing. Oh aye, Rufus, the family domestic dog in a precarious position in dad's lap. Perfect.

So Fresh, And then Clean

Just similar Monica from "Friends," this family unit is a big fan of vacuum cleaning.  Their dustbusters are an inseparable office of the family photo.

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We do wonder, notwithstanding, why the infant was deprived of a teeny-tiny cleaner of his own. Even a piffling feather duster would take washed the flim-flam.

Prepare for Prom

Beautiful girls wearing their beautiful prom dresses with the beautiful forest every bit background. Information technology sounds like nada could put a damper on this photoshoot. That's what anybody thought. And then came the chickens.

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In that location must be some weird tradition behind this, merely that however doesn't explain why they aren't looking at the photographic camera. Non even the feathery friends.

Not Enjoying the Tram?

Tram rides are usually quite a hoot. Y'all get to ride in a floating chimera and look over an unabridged urban center as if you were a bird. What's not to like?

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Well, you'll have to ask the disgruntled-looking sibling on the right. Something must take rubbed him off the wrong way to mess up what would have been a lovely gift.

Scary Gary

We can forgive the hair. We tin overlook the clothes. We tin can even get over the prom-date blossom brooch. But that hell-sent, antichrist of a dummy is just inexcusable.

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Information technology is a well-known fact that all ventriloquist dummies were forged in the bowels of the underworld and put upon this earth to haunt us, humans. We'll attempt to forget we've always laid eyes on this picture show, but we tin't hope anything.

Information technology Takes a Long Time to Look Similar Y'all Simply Woke Upwardly

Almost everybody in the family is looking proficient here. Dad'due south ready in his best Mr. Rogers sweater, Mom is pulling her all-time Enya look, lilliputian Johnny has a slick leather vest, and young Abby is proudly showing off her missing tooth.

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Older sister Anna, on the other hand, paid six hundred dollars for someone to brand her hair wait like a flock of crows, and by golly, she'south non going to change it. The family did their best by having her huddle behind mom, but information technology all the same draws the eyes. Still, plenty of good family feelings here.

It'southward Difficult to Selection a Favorite

The kid on the far right looks like he'due south one sharp squeeze away from painting the floor with his lunch. The baby in the middle can't have her eyes off of the ceiling, and the kid in the back just wants to become to Dairy Queen.

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The...mother...on the left was not paying attention to the baboon and is probable simply happy everyone managed to exist in the same photo, and Grandma (maybe) needs to recollect that duckface hasn't been invented yet. Information technology's amazing this picture wasn't cast into the fire the moment they got it. No surprise Dad wasn't interested.

Left Side Happy, Right Side Mad

Let'south read this picture like a line of text, from left to right. Gal at the peak, a bit tired but doing her darndest to smile. Bro at the bottom just idea of a great joke. Mom has a grin that comes from years of experience with grinning.

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The toe-headed kid at the bottom has some bags under his eyes but he's at least looking at the camera. Above him, this bowl-cut kid is loving his haircut and bow necktie. Dad is the rock of the family and doesn't observe it necessary to smile, though he's got no practiced reason to. The girl in the upper right looks similar she's pulled an all-nighter, and the 1 below her...

A Hands-On Picture show

But...why? The two OLDEST children are clinging to their parents' legs in poses they certainly didn't want, and tried their hardest to forget as before long as information technology was washed. The daughter is hanging on to her dad for honey life since she either has a step stool back there or had to jump.

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Dad, for his role, is standing tall even with a fully-grown man on his back. But we've certainly seen worse. At least no one hither is wearing face pigment.

This Pleases the Baby

THE BABY demands pictures! Yeah, that'southward right, gather the goofy blonde children and pose them for pictures! Each one must pass THE Infant'due south inspection, but this one, ah. This is one of THE BABY's favorites. Those poor fools. They accept no idea what THE Infant has in store for them!

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They volition be forced to pose until the terminate of the globe! Until the end of eternity! Unless, of course, they accept a bad picture and displease...THE BABY. Then what will happen to them? At that place is goose egg like it. Inquire yourself—have you always seen these two children exterior of this picture? No.

Oh NO!

Why. Why accept you done this? Why would you retrieve this is a good idea. Dad obviously thought this was a good idea. Mom, of all things, seems to call back that everything is fine! She'south got a big smile!

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The younger child, the son, doesn't have any trouble with what's going on. Only the daughter isn't a fan of what's happening. No dubiety this is one of those pictures the parents keep around only to embarrass her later in life.

Practice Nosotros Accept to Flex?

In this pic, the mom is pretty proud of her hard work in the gym and the tanning salon. The residuum of the family, for their part, aren't unhappy, but this even so kind of seems like a movie for Mom.

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Maybe she's a fettle model, and this was just an actress 1 they threw in with the kids to have some fun. That little guy with the unfortunate mohawk is having a good time, at least. The older son, who also has an unfortunate haircut, isn't putting as much effort into it. The girl has a big bright grinning on, however.

That One Wasn't the Silly One?

You know how at the end of photoshoots, the lensman will tell anybody to practise a airheaded i because it lets all of the subjects let off steam after having to sit nonetheless for then long? We really hope this is ane of those.

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The older son is strangling his sibling, and if you're an older blood brother you lot're going to empathize that feeling. The daughter looks on unfeeling and uncaring — another emotion you might understand, depending on where you lot are in the family. Dad is proud of his progeny, no matter what they're doing when he's not looking.

Don't Stand Out

The kids here are posed for a photo in their church directory, but they didn't desire to stand out, no sir. They wanted to blend in, be a confront in the crowd, look just like everyone else.

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In actuality, information technology seems similar these two kids are perfectly happy wearing their virtually vibrant shirts for everyone to find in the directory. Looks similar nosotros found Bruno Mars' style inspiration.

"Only He's Role of the Family!"

And so much to inspect hither. No doubt the beginning affair you noticed was the daughter on the dorsum of her favorite friend. Somehow they were able to go the horse to stand up nonetheless long enough to go a good snapshot, only that's merely the icing on this weird cake.

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Grandma has just finished spitting out a wad of chew, and Mom could exist hiding everything from compound issues eyes to endless voids behind those sunglasses. The best part, to us, is the girl on the correct, who looks similar she just remembered she forgot to turn the stove off back in London.

No, No, Look Direct Ahead

This blurry photo has plenty of styles to make fun of — Mom has a hairdo that is trying to grow its manner into the Guinness Book of Globe Records, and Dad looks like he'southward smuggling a real spare tire under his glaze — only the biggest question here is why everyone seems to be looking off to the left of the camera.

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While all iii of the sons and both parents have thick glasses that get in a trivial difficult to see, every single 1 of them isn't looking at the camera, which is a pretty standard slice of photo advice.

One of Mom's Favorites

This picture has a few kids, a pair of grandparents, and Dad. And if in that location is a more than "Dad from the seventies" photo out at that place, we oasis't seen it. He isn't paying attention, his legs are shaved, and he has those hot pants to show them off.

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While the kids and the grandparents are perfectly enlightened there's a motion-picture show beingness taken, it caught Dad unaware. Was he having a bad hair day, and decided that his good side was where the sun usually doesn't shine? Nosotros wonder if this one always got hung upwards on the wall.

HaPpy Altogether!

The biggest surprise in this picture is that none of the kids await like their lives are flashing before their eyes, but for kids, that does go pretty quickly. Their expressions range from happy smiles to confused stares at the camera, which seems to ignore the thing hovering behind them.

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It'southward possible that they don't know information technology's at that place. Perhaps information technology only appears right at the moment of the flash — and the people in the photo only run across it when they become the pictures adult. We wonder if the female parent has but finished laughing or crying.

Which 1 Plays the Bass?

These iv siblings are ready to stone. They habiliment their sixties style loud and proud, and every single one of them probably looks back on this movie with a mixture of groans and laughs.

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If this boy band ever made it to the stage, then they probably didn't push past the mid-sixties. Yes, this film comes from that wonderful fourth dimension of wood paneling, blond afros, and slide projectors, which nosotros're certain you came to understand as soon as you took your outset look. But, nosotros tin can't pick as well many nits hither — these guys have big smiles, and they take a cracking film.

You lot'll Have a Merry Christmas and Like It

This picture comes to u.s.a. from Poland in the nineties, back when way was all the same in flux, and Santa Clauses apparently had to article of clothing a big beet-like nose. It also kind of looks similar the child is wearing a pair of rabbit ears, which raises quite a few questions.

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The child also has the kind of face that children in the nineties got used to fast – the kind that says "Why are yous making me do this?" She's got her little bag of goodies, and she wants to become off of this weirdo's lap and get back to the Christmas cookies.

Some Things Take Priority

It wouldn't be besides far of a stretch to say that many of united states of america accept a similar motion picture hiding somewhere in our photograph albums. Dad is supposed to exist taking care of the baby, only his friend has brought over a new Super Nintendo (equally the information tells united states, even though that doesn't look much similar an SNES from where we're standing).

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Down in the basement, toys scattered effectually, an former beer box that is probably used to carry kindling from when they turn on the fireplace. The kind of carpet that volition give you burns just by looking at it, and plenty of fun to be had.

Gotta Go Fast...Back to the Barber

The person who sent this photograph in says that it is her young man, and she is oh-so glad that she didn't know him back when he was a teenager, mostly due to this photograph.

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Sonic the Boyfriend is probably super glad that his meaning other didn't know him, either, since he probably wouldn't have had much of a gamble to woo her when she was running in fear and/or laughing at him behind his back. Children can be and then brutal, merely sometimes information technology's for a adept reason. Hopefully, this guy realized this isn't a way for the record books.

Who's Next for Pony Rides?

A few kids take a ride with the ponies, which was undoubtedly a good time, simply the real star of this show is the handler. We don't know if he hiked up his shirt to show off his sweet half-dozen-pack just for the motion-picture show, simply information technology looks only as natural every bit a Hollywood starlet.

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He's got a cig dangling from his lip, a pair of thick sunglasses, and a big trucker hat to proceed the sun away. Leading kids around a pair of ponies would be fun for a few hours, just if it'southward your job day-in, day-out, you lot'll probably do everything you lot can to brand things fun, too.

The Eye Child

We've all had a picture like this. Back when you couldn't just delete a picture at the touch of a button and take another one, getting kids — and adults, on occasion — into the right mood just wasn't going to happen.

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While Grandmas are usually fonts of proficient cheer, the lass on the correct isn't having any of it. She'southward staring downwardly the camera as if she's got a knife in her pocket and she's fix to use information technology. If Grandma is worth her common salt, the next picture has that middle kid on her lap and laughing thanks to some sweet words and tender tickles.

Love Through the Screen

We're not virtually to say this movie is bad — in fact, information technology's great. But we'd be remiss not to include this cornball wedding photo. Husband and married woman are eyeing each other through the screen of their delightful seventies Television? Fantastic!

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We can't assist just dearest it. The bride is beautiful in a shimmering white clothes, the groom is handsome (look at those sideburns!), and they're locking optics similar they're meant for one another. This is the kind of picture you lot proudly hang on the wall until the finish of their happy lives, and every year await back on information technology and laugh — despite the corny look.

Presenting – Us!

A pair of brothers give their all-time jazz easily to the camera. The motion-picture show is from the final tap trip the light fantastic toe duet they did together, and hopefully, they're still speaking — though afterwards ane brother posted this online, it'south likely the other brother won't be happy with it.

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We hope the dance went improve than the picture show turned out, though people in motion almost always await ameliorate than standing still. Long, carmine mullets aren't the kind of await that has a lot of staying power, just at least tan slacks are ever in.

Including the Pet

This gal's lovable family canis familiaris lasted a good long time — from 2000 to 2015 — and the memories of the pooch are helped by this delightfully awkward moving picture. Both girl and daughter'southward best friend went through their strange phases, with the girl giving her all-time gap-toothed smile and palms pressed together in an celestial pose, while the canis familiaris joins wearing the cone of shame.

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Information technology turns out the dog's name was Affections, which makes the floating-over-the-shoulder expect perfect. All dogs go to Sky, they say, which ways this Affections is nonetheless looking down.

Santa Needs More Breathing Room

This entire family unit is having a practiced fourth dimension coming together the large man from the N Pole, merely one person, in detail, is jazzed to make certain he knows what present to bring. Yes, out of the five people pictured, Mom is the one who is most excited most the idea of a Christmas photo.

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That isn't to say the kids aren't happy — in fact, this is ane of the happier photos on the list. All the same it's Mom who is cuddling in close with the jolly old elf. Maybe that'south Dad under all that hair. These kids might soon run into mommy kissing Santa Claus.

They Went for Timeless

The kid in this photo, apparently raised plenty schlepping for his sixth-grade choir that he won glamour shots with him, and his mom. Great!

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This family is big on timeless trends, hence the hairdos, the makeup, and the single-colour backdrop. The star-spangled attire, nevertheless, might be a little besides much for our gustatory modality.

Bunny Breaks Bad

Four kids and ane Easter Bunny, the classic elements of a bad family unit photo. For some odd reason, pictures with Easter Bunnies but do non turn out well. The costumes are e'er and so bad, which is why, similar in this picture, he'south huddled behind the children.

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And SPEAKING of the children, why practise all four of them await similar they had no sleep in a week? Niggling babies having a droopy look passes without a problem, but the oldest son in the back needs a skilful night's sleep. And maybe some tea.

He's Miami-Gear up

This finely-dressed family is here to celebrate the youngest member of the family's commencement communion, and they're decked out in their eighties best. Dad's mustache is fluffed out, mom's clothes-and-jacket combo is pretty in pink, and the sister'southward ready to stun in a blue turtleneck.

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The homo of the hour has his best pair of suspenders on. The hero here is the heart child, who has a suit and shirt straight out of "Miami Vice." Don Johnson would be proud. We hope that manner icon continued to find his own look.

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