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.675Please respect copyright.PENANAKilDIQnLd8
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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. 675Please respect copyright.PENANAgftx32DlEa
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.675Please respect copyright.PENANAxqFtU4SkqZ
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 675Please respect copyright.PENANAsW8NPoNME5
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.675Please respect copyright.PENANAEc05RyWhYy
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Narcissistic675Please respect copyright.PENANAzHc2JxKS5m
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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. 675Please respect copyright.PENANAPOpbSoeiAz
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.675Please respect copyright.PENANAWyVnSwTI0a
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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. 675Please respect copyright.PENANApsA44dIU0N
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. 675Please respect copyright.PENANAhEv3tUpk6S
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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.675Please respect copyright.PENANASxs8adc3en
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She looks.675Please respect copyright.PENANAZ54GRWYNFJ
The twinkle of her youth is gone.675Please respect copyright.PENANAZBtMVVv0M2
Dull and faded.675Please respect copyright.PENANADcBfenHxDQ
Filled with bitterness and anger.675Please respect copyright.PENANA6bHOtUBIXm
A sharpness that could shatter glass.675Please respect copyright.PENANAFHBIo9qLi2
Then reality strikes.675Please respect copyright.PENANAK9J7PuI4rs
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.675Please respect copyright.PENANAUx4DoNcPwW
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.675Please respect copyright.PENANAFlP62rbR6O
She's been the fake all along.675Please respect copyright.PENANA23y68TxdkL
She looks in mirrors no more.675Please respect copyright.PENANAs7rHY34W3h
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