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.856Please respect copyright.PENANA9104n1MA9c
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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. 856Please respect copyright.PENANA8W1VRHS5g5
Her eyes still sparkle; that sense of youth twinkling like stars in the night sky.856Please respect copyright.PENANAovL7o1WAxX
Life is a little tough, but it's nothing that she can't handle. 856Please respect copyright.PENANAx357Pi29gf
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.856Please respect copyright.PENANAbMNCMwpaHK
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Narcissistic856Please respect copyright.PENANAsUeytXaXDl
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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. 856Please respect copyright.PENANAudY0R4hPJV
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.856Please respect copyright.PENANAxOdsj6Z5zY
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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. 856Please respect copyright.PENANAXmUiyb9atc
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. 856Please respect copyright.PENANAyyyfBdo4jd
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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.856Please respect copyright.PENANApt4eSdRlru
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She looks.856Please respect copyright.PENANA3qeMaS9rCX
The twinkle of her youth is gone.856Please respect copyright.PENANAXQqJqZ3tZ9
Dull and faded.856Please respect copyright.PENANAphurJyhu4B
Filled with bitterness and anger.856Please respect copyright.PENANAWAFO93L3GU
A sharpness that could shatter glass.856Please respect copyright.PENANAAzHmxkMcQ1
Then reality strikes.856Please respect copyright.PENANAkN9Zsvnitc
Tears form in her eyes when the feeling hits.856Please respect copyright.PENANAtFAg2LGEu7
The soul in her eyes tell her the truth about herself.856Please respect copyright.PENANAxhSEBz6wJb
She's been the fake all along.856Please respect copyright.PENANAxkxX19DvNf
She looks in mirrors no more.856Please respect copyright.PENANAcTtXArLWqd
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