This is my niece, Stella.
這是我的侄女,斯特拉。
She's just turned one and started to walk.
她剛滿一歲并開始學走路了。
And she's walking in that really cool way that one-year-olds do,a kind of teetering, my-body's-moving- too-fast-for-my-legs kind of way.
她正在用一歲的小孩通常使用的非常酷的方式走路,那種搖搖晃晃、身體比腿移動得快得多的方式。
It is absolutely gorgeous.
這真的很有意思。
And one of her favorite things to do at the moment is to stare at herself in the mirror.
她最喜歡做的事情之一就是盯著鏡子里的自己。
She absolutely loves her reflection.
她非常喜歡自己在鏡子里的影像。
She giggles and squeals, and gives herself these big, wet kisses.
她邊笑邊叫,然后給了鏡子中的自己一些大大的、濕濕的吻。
It is beautiful.
很漂亮。
Apparently, all of her friends do this and my mom tells me that I used to do this,and it got me thinking:When did I stop doing this?
很顯然,她所有的朋友都這樣做,然后我媽說我小時候也是這樣的,這讓我想到一個問題:我是什么時候停止這樣做的?
When is it suddenly not okay to love the way that we look?
從什么時候開始,突然間我們不再喜歡自己的長相了?
Because apparently we don't.
因為很顯然我們不再那樣做。
Ten thousand people every month google,Am I ugly?
每個月都有一萬人在谷歌上搜索,我丑嗎?
This is Faye. Faye is 13 and she lives in Denver.
這是法耶,她13歲,住在丹佛。
And like any teenager, she just wants to be liked and to fit in.
就像所有的青少年一樣,她也想被別人喜歡并與人相處融洽。
It's Sunday night.
這是星期天晚上。
She's getting ready for the week ahead at school.
她正在為下周的學校生活做準備。
And she's slightly dreading it, and she's a bit confused because despite her mom telling her all the time that she's beautiful,every day at school, someone tells her that she's ugly.
她有些害怕,并且有一點困惑,因為盡管她媽媽一直告訴她說她很漂亮,但是每天在學校都會有人說她長得難看。
Because of the difference between what her mom tells her and what her friends at school, or her peers at school are telling her,she doesn't know who to believe.
因為她媽媽告訴她的和她在學校的朋友或同齡人告訴她的是不同的,所以她不知道該相信誰。
So, she takes a video of herself. She posts it to YouTube and she asks people to please leave a comment:Am I pretty or am I ugly?
因此,她為自己拍攝了一個視頻并放到了YouTube上,然后她讓大家來評論:我長得漂亮還是難看?
Well, so far, Faye has received over 13,000 comments.
截止目前,法耶共收到了超過13000個評論。
Some of them are so nasty, they don't bear thinking about.
它們中的一些很下流,不值一提。
This is an average, healthy-looking teenage girl receiving this feedback at one of the most emotionally vulnerable times in her life.
這是一個普通的、看起來很健康的少女在她生命中情感最脆弱的時光收到的回復。