Although my ‘Awkward Years’ photo was of me in the first grade, my years after then have been far more awkward. Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures of those times that I’m willing to share. I am currently a sophomore in high school, and throughout the years, people have picked on me for my brains, […]
I grew up in a suburb of Omaha, Nebraska. My years in elementary school were years filled with neighborhood bike rides and fireflies. But early on, I knew I was different when I was one of only two kids in my school who had red hair. We didn’t call what the 2 of us put […]
I was in 8th grade, right in the middle of the awkward years and my mom decided to cut my hair…and kept cutting…and cutting, until it looked good, to her. My boyfriend dumped me, I got called a boy and my friends never let me live it down. Though I cringe when I see this […]
At the time my ‘then’ photo was taken, my parents were in the middle of a very bitter divorce and subsequent custody battle. This photo was taken at my mother’s parent’s house at Easter while I was visiting her. I remember this time in my life because it was when I first became aware of […]
My name is Chelsea Bianca Goulet, I’m currently 16 years old. On the left, I’m roughly 8 years old. I definitely wasn’t the most popular kid in school, and to say the least, that hasn’t changed much. The kids at school used to call me a teacher’s pet, nerd, ugly, buck teeth, and the girls […]
The summer between 2nd and 3rd grade my family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut. I had really thick hair and my Mom couldn’t get it to stay curled so she decided to perm it. It was a very tight perm and I ended up with hair shaped like a triangle. New school plus the hair […]
I found this picture recently and laughed out loud, reminded of how awkward of a kid I was. And by “kid” I mean baby/infant/child/tween/teen. All of the above. Born pigeon-toed and cross-eyed, I literally came out of the womb destined for awkwardness. Yet, somehow I turned out ok I think. This was me in the […]
I was quite large as a child and teenager. Raised in a classic Southern fast food family, my childhood environment included poor nutrition & low activity on a daily basis. At my heaviest, I weighed over 250 lbs and since I was always taller than most other kids (I was 5’8 by 6th grade), I […]