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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyf4htEgNwS
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRam3vU6Lzo
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ68Daq7PGUm
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyvDCHpJoYD
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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrPONSkIY5i
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75tx0oQf08
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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVN8ht4tic
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtDa0DyQTz
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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. 178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZuvMDMfHgx
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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.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCiuftvT1mM
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She looks.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwCCl7V0by
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Then reality strikes.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmxL5yOWtKa
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Ok5v6ujOT
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj4k5bhWDfJ
She's been the fake all along.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBgdGO1DiM
She looks in mirrors no more.178Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkB8p6eUq2
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