Youthful eyes, bright with wonder and amazement stare back at the two year old as she discovers mirrors for the first time. She's happy and giggly as she plays with her reflection.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9CzR4zE0x
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Once flawless skin has become covered in adolescent marks at the age of twelve. But she keeps looking in the mirror, seeing other parts of her that are still very pleasing. 891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1aPlRYrAq
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bj6DrXgKW
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVw3nbvsg5B
She continues to look in mirrors, grasping on to her self-esteem while others try to put her down. She won't let anyone tell her that she's unattractive. She doesn't believe them.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnjiKhIpCdu
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Those were just some of the words she was called in High School at the age of seventeen. But in her mind, she's telling herself that she's beautiful, that what people say don't bug her. In reality, it's starting to get to her. 891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixbwdydxFU
The constant noise of social media telling girls how they should look and act has become a virus; spreading from female to female. But she won't be like them. She won't give in to the false pretense of what beauty is.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtVY8rL8nbf
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Twenty years old, she's living with some roommates; women who have their own independent thinking. They see the way she acts, the way she constantly looks in the mirror after classes. Hearing words she says to them, about how they're just like every other girl; fake. 891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXT8JKwpYsc
They ask why she thinks like that; why she thinks that every girl is fake. She speaks of experience. She says that looking in mirrors and seeing how she looks keep her from giving in to false beliefs of beauty. Mirrors are her friends. 891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TCR2O4mPe
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Twenty-one years old, sitting in a psychologists office and telling her story. The man across from her hands over a handheld mirror and asks what she sees in her eyes.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ249RwEIegG
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She looks.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXhZKmgFr8k
The twinkle of her youth is gone.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIeKMxsMbsJ
Dull and faded.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SJHeeDLbJ
Filled with bitterness and anger.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRU0ZKB99Yo
A sharpness that could shatter glass.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7J7L0s43WB
Then reality strikes.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKrGcgIPuI
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnHCwS1qPBQ
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4sRupg2lIr
She's been the fake all along.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK56UWRaDlC
She looks in mirrors no more.891Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAaoDVY0uB
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