Pretty Girl

Once upon a time there was a pretty girl. She knew she was pretty because the world told her so. Doors opened for her. People stared at her beauty. Other girls wanted to be her. The cameras loved her.

‘She reads the latest magazine, movie stars in skinny jeans. She wants to be that cover girl…

She takes every kind of diet pill, starves herself to fit the bill, of what the world sees her for…’

Until one day she looks in the mirror. She doesn’t think she’s pretty enough, skinny enough. She hasn’t made the cover of that magazine so she must not be ‘enough’.

Enough, until she ends it all with one jump off a bridge which finally lands her the cover page that she always wanted. The caption read ‘What a shame…she was such a pretty girl’.