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.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBLSVKhvwg
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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. 835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCZctxSuJ6x
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWs2wWVLTKI
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JD4yzQqaS
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.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNi92XaIur
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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. 835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8H93nERiNP
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.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ31O7BIaFDO
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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. 835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVwn9fezPM
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. 835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkr8rjO5Bu
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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.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeNpcLi8ru
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She looks.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDFaHLGtgZi
The twinkle of her youth is gone.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzL3T5rVtSJ
Dull and faded.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt6zpGTxTny
Filled with bitterness and anger.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡottuu5I2KF
A sharpness that could shatter glass.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGCUgVtigyF
Then reality strikes.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EjVBoz8yA
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJjvB6KSYN
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kRIWpEkA9
She's been the fake all along.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8l45T61ra
She looks in mirrors no more.835Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCnDL38hWUe
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