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.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr7yPbl4yYL
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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. 672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsS5lhXqK4H
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LC5N9GwBa
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLo0VQHyPvL
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.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUqZqEGZld
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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. 672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRETgjDV17
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.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNli2xq1CE
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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. 672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUifZYQyJE
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. 672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrvgK6dhgif
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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.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDBDv9NsCF
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She looks.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe1Nicv4gjt
The twinkle of her youth is gone.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPVBkMIOao
Dull and faded.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdKx2mrRVIh
Filled with bitterness and anger.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU18TCuONnP
A sharpness that could shatter glass.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl589i9heo0
Then reality strikes.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmmqMaleW7D
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0iOThCv9t7
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUTtHNPEwEq
She's been the fake all along.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsrqZd8yMXd
She looks in mirrors no more.672Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRJRQvH9M6M
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