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" A brand is only going to want to be more inclusive if they feel like it's going to be good for business as well as making the consumer feel good - so we have to encourage people to do that. Consumers have to stand up and say, 'I have power: my pound or dollar is how I vote.' "

Iskra Lawrence

Power

Business

Good

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" Social media has been both damaging and beneficial in terms of how we view our bodies. "

" Invest in brands that make you feel good and that you believe in. "

" I want to be the girl that's real and show other girls that you don't have to have flawless skin or the 'perfect' body - because that's just not real. "

" You should be waking up and being excited about what you're going to do today, and your friends and your family, and what you're going to achieve in life. "

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" We don't need to be categorized - we are all individual and beautifully unique. "

" When I was a teenager, a mean comment would have hurt me deeply, I've made it my mission to be a role model for young girls and boys and help show them that other people's words or opinions have nothing to do with how beautiful they actually are. "

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Hurt

" Like virtually all of the women I know, I spent my teenage years battling with my body and feeling I wasn't good enough. A lot of that negativity is because I was pursuing a career in modeling and was told countless times that my body was too big. My hips and thighs were too wide. "

" When we think about our bodies, we often think about the way they look as opposed to what they accomplish for us every day. "

" You don't always need to be this flawless female with amazing skin and done hair. Perfect doesn't exist. "

" I know, when I was younger, I would look in the mirror every single day and hate what I saw. "

" I treat health and fitness as looking after myself. "

" My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body. "

" I remember I took an editorial, and I was so excited. I got the pictures back, and I looked in the magazine, and I was like, 'Oh my gosh!' My arms were half their size, and I had a thigh gap magically, and all these crazy things. My family went out and tried to find my pictures in the magazines, but no one could recognize me. "

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Crazy

" There's nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated. "

" My long-term dream is to have self-education in schools for mental, physical, and emotional health because we need to learn how to speak to ourselves in a loving way and to each other. "

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" Instead of waking up and worrying about your thigh gap, wake up and worry about what you're going to achieve today. What can you do, and how can you give back? "

" I just spent five, six years sacrificing so much to try and fit into that one ideal, that one small standard, and I was never good enough. And it was just frustration that turned into motivation... That became my ammunition, all the people that told me I couldn't. "

" For me, health starts from the mind, and it really does start from the inside out. "

" Social media should be a true sense of who you are. "

" I never want to shame anyone. I love going to the gym, and I feel proud and fit. That, for me, is aspirational. There are things you can do in a very healthy, natural way. This is how I work with my body to make it the best I can be. That's the shape that I have, just toned and tight. That's my preference. "

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