First, you can retreive the authenticated user with "Auth::user()" instead of "User::find(Auth::id())".

I don't see your posts relationship in your User mode, but still, images are associated for each post.

// Anywhere in your controller
$user = Auth::user();
$posts = $user->posts;
foreach($posts as $post) {
    $images = $post->images;
}

So is there no way to return this is one nice array like my original script did? It just did not include the images.

I've even tried the following.

$proofs = User::find(Auth::id())
            ->posts()
            ->each(function($row) {
                return $row->images()->get();
            })
            ->orderBy('id')
            ->paginate(15);

You can try with the hasManyThrough relationship