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.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33uGgdfBT9
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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. 760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0dddlwVa0h
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtPivXHdfA
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejPcq3bTg8
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.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrCgpWVNDxA
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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. 760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMAaZuOjXhk
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.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfxPcsfPGJm
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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. 760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36ivE6Umw4
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. 760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1NE4CoHR8
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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.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhfefmOn1tt
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She looks.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo50Hc3rr8O
The twinkle of her youth is gone.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ29MqK27kRA
Dull and faded.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95KkKQY2eW
Filled with bitterness and anger.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3O7rWwImPv
A sharpness that could shatter glass.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyY4OX9K0Tw
Then reality strikes.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGwU3mBvn5
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03J86FaeE6
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeMWjEwA4Zi
She's been the fake all along.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLegPvWqc0O
She looks in mirrors no more.760Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP9KG0HEOh4
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