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.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8NMx3xMc6
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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. 854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlWmhqrr91R
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkS5XXSuo5I
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOHRhltb10q
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.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsQhMEgHQv
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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. 854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkucMCvCLiw
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.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ss00mdhPY
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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. 854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf71xr0rbYJ
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. 854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGZiEjSyNb
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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.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AybAt2Qh9
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She looks.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qtYOHFPLT
The twinkle of her youth is gone.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFRhwSuyZa
Dull and faded.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmevC7yBaTj
Filled with bitterness and anger.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKgUr9ih4i
A sharpness that could shatter glass.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvPFwfakCW
Then reality strikes.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxKDYES6ePm
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzoXce470gY
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡga0UYlFmj9
She's been the fake all along.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7K0H26zNPW
She looks in mirrors no more.854Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57h8D2qdla
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