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" 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. "

Iskra Lawrence

Family

Crazy

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Iskra Lawrence

Love

Feel

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

" I'm very much a positive person - I put good energy out there - so I don't feel like anyone would want to do anything nasty to me. "

" I had a turbulent relationship with my calves, but I love them now because I realize that they were never the problem. "

" I love McDonald's now and again - not every day. "

" I think unretouched images are even more beautiful. "

Iskra Lawrence

Even

Think

" Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor. "

" I dreamt of being an Aerie model before I came to New York. That was one of the main reasons I came to New York and wanted to get signed. "

" Everybody can rock a bikini, swimsuit, unicorn onesie... whatever floats your boat. If you wear it with confidence, you will look hot. "

" I need to just be Iskra, and I've got to believe in me, or else no one will. "

Iskra Lawrence

Got

Believe

" 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. "

Iskra Lawrence

Beautiful

Hurt

" 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. "

Iskra Lawrence

Beautiful

Never

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

" 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. "

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

" My thighs are great! "

Iskra Lawrence

Thighs

Great

" 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. "

" When you're happy and at one with yourself and have come to peace with who you are, that radiates. "

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

" 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. "

" If your girlfriend is saying, 'Ugh, look at my stretch marks, look at my rolls,' don't say, 'Yeah, I hate my thighs, too.' Say, 'No, you look really cute today - and I feel good, too!' "

" The most important relationship we have in our lives is the relationship we have with ourselves, and we're not taught about it. "

" For so many years, I thought I wasn't good enough. "

" I have heard every negative thing under the sun about my body. "

" 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. "

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

Iskra Lawrence

Years

Zero