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.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZF8PNcC2t8
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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. 939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUc6ZYGDl9t
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQebMVt79ir
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLj5bb0peZ
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.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCWf3EEg3Z
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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. 939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtWaUA3W3K
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.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXFZTaL99o
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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. 939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzhJTpYgzU
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. 939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7yLpoVX4P
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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.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjEmvlFsfHp
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She looks.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzLIJSHuSGd
The twinkle of her youth is gone.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBX2eUmtUu
Dull and faded.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBpHn6DZta
Filled with bitterness and anger.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSZvgcox59H
A sharpness that could shatter glass.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaHGQnyuW9T
Then reality strikes.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5wY05x4Vy4
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb30HKvYTNe
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMBgHlqXZe
She's been the fake all along.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9TaxIkgk1b
She looks in mirrors no more.939Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjTC3DfBm4
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