Awkward Family Photo

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 Over the past few years, the website Awkward Family Photos has been serving up the world’s most embarrassing snaps to an eager audience.

So perhaps the public has become immune to the diet of matching sweaters, cringeworthy set-ups and over-the-top celebration which characterise most of the photos.

But this extraordinary example may well set a new standard – it could be the most awkward family photo ever.

The picture, which has been shared on Facebook 38,000 times, features a young couple showing off the development of their unborn child.

Nothing wrong with that – except that, for some reason, the pair are topless, with the woman wearing revealinglingerie.

And their new baby is included in the photo by the simple expedient of drawing a picture of it – complete withumbilical cord – on the mother’s belly.

Family-photo aficionados will already be used to seeing children unwillingly roped in to their parents’ photographic masterpieces.

But this couple has taken that to a new level, by including their child in the photo at a time when, confined in the womb, it really is helpless to refuse.

Precisely why they felt the need to demonstrate the baby’s presence by drawing it on is unclear – but the decent quality of the draftsmanship suggests that it was time-consuming experience.

So perhaps, given all that artistic effort, it makes sense for the mother to be topless so she can show off the handiwork.

And maybe the father is just trying to show his sympathy, and stay involved in the pregnancy, by following suit.

But even if we accept some sort of logic behind the unique tableau, we may never understand why they felt the need to share their handiwork with the rest of the world.