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.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRoyDUzfaJ
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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. 800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrIeWuR5Ax
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8aq7xiVQT1
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAkDDfzoNHw
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.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMFBkSXp2N
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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. 800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ks0DQhSn7
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.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmHdZgsufz6
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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. 800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVV4PD8LAw
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. 800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHu8MYCEyFM
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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.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLO3mDlz0c
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She looks.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkz3bmwtIxS
The twinkle of her youth is gone.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhiBZU8NNp
Dull and faded.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNAxELvekt
Filled with bitterness and anger.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4hxxbaF7k
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Then reality strikes.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvf2csDNqla
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOprNJlHOIu
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqElfoMJDY
She's been the fake all along.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlk0mUVoK9f
She looks in mirrors no more.800Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8sTimxB1Aq
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