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.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUawi8FZoT
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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. 896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfIomD28ToV
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95ECHN7UN8
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjrmw3YG6mP
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.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhaXXJtr86m
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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. 896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZETyR8EU5
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.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJ7YPh96Vt
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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. 896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPhdRLkDt6
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. 896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqf6VQir9W
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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.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUF3KZ9mAwv
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She looks.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKqEc45MEMZ
The twinkle of her youth is gone.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqM8iTYjFT
Dull and faded.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXL1FwTgUi8
Filled with bitterness and anger.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrleNHoCSb
A sharpness that could shatter glass.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBYV01iw2Y
Then reality strikes.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡECmdiNxeSG
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsagH1xZNY3
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSehLSEi5qu
She's been the fake all along.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQpLrJfLxoJ
She looks in mirrors no more.896Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdbPa56A5U
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