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" 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. "

Iskra Lawrence

Body

Proud

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Great

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Why

" 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. "

" 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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Family

Crazy

" 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!' "

" If you are trying to achieve the 'perfect body' or aspiring to be like someone else, you are only going to feel like you failed. "

" 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. "

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

" For me, I feel empowered when I use my body to exercise, play sports, and explore the world. My body allows me to sing, dance, talk, feel - and eat a damn good piece of cheesecake. "

Iskra Lawrence

Sports

Body

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

" Throughout my whole teenage years, I had zero confidence and had to build it from the bottom up. "

Iskra Lawrence

Years

Zero

" If you start talking to yourself in a loving way you're going to feel so much better, and your life is going to be so much happier. "

" I'm happy with myself. I respect myself. And I know that no man, no jeans, no scale, and no booker is in control of my future - I am. "

" I got told I wasn't good enough and that I could never make it. And then Aerie told me I was beautiful because I was me. "

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Beautiful

Never

" 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. "

" My story is one of ups and downs. It's made up of tastes of success and a lot more rejection. "

" 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. "

" I had a taste for this fashion industry that I loved and wanted to be a part of. "

" You don't need to be retouched - because the real you is beautiful. "

" It's easy to forget how powerful our bodies actually are. "

" I'm very aware I have very young people following me - 11- and 12-year-olds. I want to do things that are aspirational, so I'm not going to pick a picture that's unattractive - even in the sense of lighting and angles - but I make sure that it's realistic. It is me, and it is my body. I wouldn't put anything out there that isn't real. "

Iskra Lawrence

Body

People

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

" I think unretouched images are even more beautiful. "

Iskra Lawrence

Even

Think

" 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. "

" Words and images deeply impact the way we view our bodies, and the consequences can be very damaging. "

" 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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Beautiful

Hurt

" As a model, I feel a great responsibility, and I understand how an image can make a young woman feel. "