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.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRyI66DK95
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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. 871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYgc6orcAQT
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxg00UpQzNn
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTsdwiChsdX
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.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBfadzRx5fu
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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. 871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAGRIoDOGa
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.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcqU3E7hIHG
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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. 871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEjXTYoaHP
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. 871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPwGlWYowKO
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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.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzDNgPQb2cZ
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She looks.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnicI9sLAtX
The twinkle of her youth is gone.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZzYj3fgNOt
Dull and faded.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMSgrG6AAP
Filled with bitterness and anger.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCz0oLhmHfi
A sharpness that could shatter glass.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtI4iACEzqE
Then reality strikes.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6EVFtFJOmT
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7YaZtIzrN
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbczVj8cEz
She's been the fake all along.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjRsBUmbkn
She looks in mirrors no more.871Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZm59K0Jc24
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