Sylvie would love nothing more than to be a normal teenage girl, and in her mind she is. She has friends, she loves her family and they love her and she is on her way to being beautiful and most important skinny. In a world that is ruled by social media and image so many of our teenagers get wrapped up in their bodies, how they look to themselves and comparing themselves to others. When Sylvie is in middle school she realizes that there is a level of beauty out there that she fixates on reaching. Is it normal? To her and in her mind it is. She collects picture from magazines displaying the perfect body parts that she aspires to have. As she falls deeper and deeper into this place body dysmorphia takes a strong hold on her. She distances herself from everything and everyone that was important to her.

She sees the world and all of the beautiful people in it as only flawed humans with either unwanted bodies or within the community she has found, individuals that have the body goals she dreams of obtaining. Her parents and brother try to help guide her but she continues to fall until she can barely see herself, she can't feel anything because she doesn't have the energy to feel anymore, but like all falls she finds her way back up. She finds her light and her direction that will lead her into the next chapter of her life. This is a story of a teenage girl who loses herself in what she thinks beauty is, but in the end she finds out that the beauty she seeks has been inside of her the whole time. A story of pain coupled with the determination to get better so she can guide others into the same freedom in body beauty she finally found and loves.