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" Everybody can rock a bikini, swimsuit, unicorn onesie... whatever floats your boat. If you wear it with confidence, you will look hot. "
Iskra Lawrence
Boat
Hot
You
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" When you get to that point where you don't have to worry and you don't have to think about it... I'm pretty sure that's the best diet you can be on. "
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" Girls shouldn't be worried about their cellulite or their rolls. Or anything that makes us real. "
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" We need to see real women's bodies. "
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" 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. "
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" Phones are interesting objects. Sometimes you wish they just didn't exist. "
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" 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. "
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" I've been trying to be the model that I wanted to see when I was a teenager, looking through magazines and not seeing myself, looking at pictures that were so edited. "
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" You don't always need to be this flawless female with amazing skin and done hair. Perfect doesn't exist. "
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" I refuse to let something as insignificant as a size or number on a scale determine how I feel about myself. I am grateful for my body, my health, and the life that I have, and no arbitrary number should have any impact on that. "
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" My dad always has the best advice! "
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" After so many years of being rejected and having my body scrutinized... for Aerie to come along and basically say, 'We accept you. We don't care about your size.' To see those pictures on a Times Square billboard, and they were completely unretouched, I just was like, 'Wow. I finally feel good enough!' "
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" Social media should be a true sense of who you are. "
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" There's nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated. "
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Emotions
Day
" I spent so many years being repeatedly rejected and told I wasn't good enough. It took a huge toll on my self-esteem until I realized I am more than my body and that, actually, our beauty comes from diversity. "
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" I don't ever wanna blame my body for not being right. "
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Being
Ever
Right
" We don't need to be categorized - we are all individual and beautifully unique. "
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" The focus for me is always about health. That's why I talk about self-care rather than size or anything like that, because that's something we can all do that's relatable - this discussion of being healthy form the inside-out. "
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Always
" 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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Body
Me
Proud
" There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn't have to be threatening. "
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Disagree
Threatening
Way
" I tried the maple syrup diet. I tried the protein-only Atkins diet. "
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I Tried
Syrup
Tried
" I never could have dreamt that I would be able to help girls feel better about themselves. But now I know I can. I want to do everything in my power to do more. "
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Help
" When I joined Instagram, I began sharing my raw photos along with my raw and honest thoughts and feelings. "
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" I remember doing a commercial one time where I stepped on a shard of glass, and I was hobbling around in swimwear. It was raining and in the commercial, when I saw it, I didn't look like I had a messed up foot. "
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" I had a turbulent relationship with my calves, but I love them now because I realize that they were never the problem. "
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" I remember Googling operations to make my calves slimmer, and I ate only ham for a week to try and become skinny. "
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" No matter what age you are, your voice should be heard, and you can develop a passion for something and be an activist in your own right, in your own field, for something you feel strongly about. "
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" I was called 'fat' 200 times on shoots and had serious trouble fitting in the clothes at fashion shows. All these things break you down to a point where you look in the mirror and don't like what you see. "
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Clothes
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" I did not label myself 'plus size.' The fashion industry did. "
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Size
Plus
" 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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