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.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbUqbAHEAi
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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. 774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdtQHDVRop8
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkRtRA86d7
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kTzb9vtZV
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.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShGZ8ZUtM9
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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. 774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiNU52EmEp
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.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOblQvGNIC
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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. 774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMut2jNIXgk
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. 774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5dGbACB7t
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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.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnQE2SuAgn4
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She looks.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn34UPqYtjh
The twinkle of her youth is gone.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKpFHtRyozk
Dull and faded.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRQtLWsGf52
Filled with bitterness and anger.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDpCSggRc9P
A sharpness that could shatter glass.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuoplr3Guv
Then reality strikes.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9XkluUQzA
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ0ad9umKuD
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6f6F21hwWY
She's been the fake all along.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWOYZAHaNO
She looks in mirrors no more.774Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRRmOOSgsg
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