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.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWQp7AYQdy
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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. 879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH80GmMFkDw
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHqMGTdnF3
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl9yPkPUj9o
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.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2Yd9KEVw7
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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. 879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ056Bsaiem
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.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTkgh660hrU
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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. 879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCybOhHchNw
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. 879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKPQD7MSN5
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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.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5xJWiWblO
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She looks.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHthrPOwsur
The twinkle of her youth is gone.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlpZ6WHa1UM
Dull and faded.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHftQpK6cB9
Filled with bitterness and anger.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXX6x1UzDRl
A sharpness that could shatter glass.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOru0HAqyt
Then reality strikes.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcEWhb1ZAz
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCDqqwNHCr
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr65mR3QpzJ
She's been the fake all along.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2tolhSfilV
She looks in mirrors no more.879Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbehgpYIqHE
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