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.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2w5Ozj4PmC
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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. 912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4JOrZ7GsYW
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6jXnv3ybq8
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9X0KEAdzX
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.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3PWYWlftei
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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. 912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqLpqOC3MH8
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.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuQzNFkWEQ
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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. 912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4mq7rFjog
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. 912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRvEK3vHKx
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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.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTaRRFXyls
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She looks.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEbOihfPPn
The twinkle of her youth is gone.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrrr1NzR0zZ
Dull and faded.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kX3HReJtQ
Filled with bitterness and anger.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡacWBtopJlv
A sharpness that could shatter glass.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZummIjMiP
Then reality strikes.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0CJB7GJ8K
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeW5yRsY4hP
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJykznj2rzb
She's been the fake all along.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7XHrUbwpH
She looks in mirrors no more.912Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt03E4hUIwz
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