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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. "

Iskra Lawrence

Trying

Myself

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" Be you. Everyone else is already taken. "

" I had had my own trials and tribulations with body image. I had gone through a lot starting from my teenage years. "

" 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. "

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

" We need to see real women's bodies. "

" Labels make us feel worse about ourselves, and I would love for all models, no matter what their size, to be treated equally and called the same thing. "

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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. "

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

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You

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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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" 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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" I remember Googling operations to make my calves slimmer, and I ate only ham for a week to try and become skinny. "

" 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 don't ever wanna blame my body for not being right. "

" If you want to wear something and you feel confident, you are going to rock it. That's what I love about fashion: it's your choice and your chance to express yourself. "

" My thighs are great! "

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Thighs

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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. "

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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!' "

" Change the conversation you're having in the mirror with yourself... if you hear someone who is saying something that is bringing them down, stop it. Don't be passive. Actually, take action and say, 'I wouldn't speak to my best friend like that.' "

" 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. "

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