Please don't tell me what I look like on a bad day

You know you're blessed when your biggest problem is that you HATE the professional photos that were taken of you for your company's new Web site. It seems that I am to be presented as a lipsticked potato. Albino potato. Blech. Everyone else hates theirs too, so I'm in good company. One is even letting me pick which photo of theirs will go up; they can't bear to do it. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Why are these pictures so sucky?