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.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGcq5X0A7I
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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. 807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxT7hhjsjB
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGWyaMOkIn
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFztfWHDMqm
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.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEthXV8B8I
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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. 807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AzwKXlr5R
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.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHnX5nKmhu8
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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. 807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRgRbGMtzF
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. 807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ52ZBmKoFOo
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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.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqplH9QnB2u
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She looks.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRAEdPOR4xK
The twinkle of her youth is gone.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3gXN5TOZ9I
Dull and faded.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6XDFZT7qQ
Filled with bitterness and anger.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQQESXVR0u
A sharpness that could shatter glass.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshJbu03Ahe
Then reality strikes.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQqebWgvJI
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiCDh0xjZC
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRXzSU1i8Mr
She's been the fake all along.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4Ps9EpJlG
She looks in mirrors no more.807Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7e6XQwuTrs
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