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.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulwC5vOyVK
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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. 877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkH5ZVGOVxo
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYFST2MKTD3
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiB39wn7hVp
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.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCeQrkIiqo0
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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. 877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQkL39sGHCM
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.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7SQlRjp5c
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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. 877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLrgOVjJCE
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. 877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6qRAqryNp
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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.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEya1a6fp7k
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She looks.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQzao1TUIK
The twinkle of her youth is gone.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVoEfKmgpqM
Dull and faded.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLwSx2z19o
Filled with bitterness and anger.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YIdyMt8pl
A sharpness that could shatter glass.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkJGscGIvi4
Then reality strikes.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGor9SeuKg7
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Qb77JEPCE
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXB7sGaVrTq
She's been the fake all along.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDm4jeWyJbG
She looks in mirrors no more.877Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjadpTccsMS
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