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She wouldn't believe it whenever they told her she was beautiful. Her mirror told her otherwise. What she saw each day was just a bloated, round, dorso-ventrally flattened female specie with chubby cheeks.

She told herself she was hideous. Drilled it into her skull.

After several unanswered prayers to the ones above for a kiss of beauty, she'd given up praying. And took up self-help.