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.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5DIafYVHw
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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. 553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxx9V0eAq1
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBELieL3opn
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7cDvt8VYHw
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.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6a7df86EL
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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. 553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwFYuT4MFK
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.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqMqXEtrvg8
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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. 553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vsif6dyp9
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. 553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxCnbW9y6Fv
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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.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl361oCbHYv
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She looks.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjrQifKUtw5
The twinkle of her youth is gone.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPg0INHxUJo
Dull and faded.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFksKVC10TX
Filled with bitterness and anger.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpaZ4WM2fdb
A sharpness that could shatter glass.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6DACvgHZfz
Then reality strikes.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS1XZDGluri
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRnaex8nvf
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJiE5Ep4qnC
She's been the fake all along.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIpGqSonDlj
She looks in mirrors no more.553Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwyu9h1b6N
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