— You think of yourself as a reasonably hip, attractive person. You wear the latest styles and present your best side to the world. But then you open your passport and there it is on Page 2: A blast from the past staring back at you.
Maybe you were just recovering from a tragic haircut when that fateful picture was taken. Perhaps you were at the height of your facial hair experiment phase. Maybe the Goth look seemed like the coolest thing ever at the time.
Now, it’s an image that makes your friends giggle. Worse, you fear it could force Border Patrol agents to do a double-take at the airport when they see the real you.
So what happens when you don’t resemble your passport photo anymore?
“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.
His passport photo — taken in 2007 when he was a college freshman — shows a mass of curls surrounding his face à la Robert Plant.
