As I looked in the mirror,

all I could see

was a distorted body

staring back at me.

I didn’t have a thin waist

or a stomach so flat.

I barely even ate

I didn’t have fair skin

or long shiny hair.

My lips were too thin

and my face looked so bare.

I had scars and freckles

all over my body.

I didn’t like it one bit,

they weren’t even pretty.

But as I scanned through magazines

looking at models oh so tall,

I realized one thing;

they weren’t real at all.

Their stick figure bodies

and their flawless skin

were quite impossible to replicate

because they were too thin.

As I looked in the mirror

all I could see

was a beautiful body

staring back at me.

I had scars and freckles

all over my body.

A canvas full of curves and colors

Mica T.