She looks really chubby these days.
She’s lost so much weight. She looks ill.
She’s starting to look really old.
Why did she have surgery? She doesn’t even look like herself.
She had grown up with these stories. Witnessed women pulled apart in the magazines she hated but couldn’t give up. Damned if they did and damned if they didn’t.
She still pulled at her own face in the mirror, plucked at the loose skin on her stomach. Hated herself for it.
She looked over at her sleeping daughter. Vowed to be the change. Smiled at her reflection instead.
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