Julia Kozerski's photo is called "Vestige" from her series "Half."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
(CNN) -- When Julia Kozerski saw a camera, she would duck and dodge out of the way. She'd hide behind other people or offer to take the picture to avoid being photographed.
"It was an embarrassment, somebody having that photograph," she said, who at her heaviest weighed 338 pounds. "They told the truth. It haunts you."
But when Kozerski got married in 2009, she had to face the camera for obvious reasons, as every bride does.
"I hadn't taken a photo in 10 years," she said.
When she saw her wedding pictures, Kozerski said, "I didn't see that happiness. I saw someone scared of the camera -- that wasn't me."
Her inhibitions about being photographed are upended in her self-portraits chronicling her weight-loss, called "Half."
See Kozerski's self-portraits
In a society where perfection and Photoshop are givens, Kozerski disrobes and photographs herself just the way she is -- no makeup, no clothes, no hairstyles, no computer tricks to nip and tuck.
Here is the original post:
Woman loses 160 pounds after wedding
