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.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyc2VpV3He7
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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. 836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhEUN3oz5ls
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpnOWFRWz0
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYjPsHiBkm
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.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8td5u1YVb
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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. 836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGqAOJuHsq
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.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFFCP6ugw2U
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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. 836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9PSdC1cvg2
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. 836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgR7I6qyl0u
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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.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMsgk7lTGhn
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She looks.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu5vVKNzpou
The twinkle of her youth is gone.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJnqNr5WhaI
Dull and faded.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFctAo4BmJk
Filled with bitterness and anger.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs6wIfXBfwB
A sharpness that could shatter glass.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObeuwJrIZu
Then reality strikes.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrO59mW5umX
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgUjjWuEccv
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk9F7h7a2po
She's been the fake all along.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmBZjwPLHP4
She looks in mirrors no more.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6L2CuBiKb9
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