Quotes by Iskra Lawrence - Page 2

Any images that I've had retouched, I look at them, and I think, 'Oh I actually don't want that.' That's why I don't share them on Instagram.
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You are good enough as you, so delete that Facetune app and step away from that really weird filter that makes you look smoother than Craig David.
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App
David
Craig
Delete
Filter
Smoother
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I started when I was 13 years old by entering 'Elle Girl''s search for the next supermodel in the U.K. I got to the finals and was signed by Storm.
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Entering
Finals
Storm
Supermodel
Search
Signed
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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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Diet
Worry
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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.
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Flawless
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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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Labels
Models
Equally
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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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Waking
Life Family Today
Waking Up
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On a night out, I can feel unstoppable with an eyeliner wing and a bold lip. But I also love that I can still feel beautiful and confident without any of that.
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Unstoppable
Bold
Wing
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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?
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Waking
Gap
Waking Up
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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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Dreamt
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The first time I learned about Aerie, I was blown away by how beautiful and confident the models appeared in their ads - and more so that they were un-retouched.
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Ads
Blown Away
Models
Appeared
Blown
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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.
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Confidence
Body
Realisation
Wanted
Accept
Actually
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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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Edited
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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.
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Chance
Express Yourself
Love Yourself Your
Confident
Choice
Express
Wear
Rock
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Because I was a swimmer, I felt like sports did help me to realize that my body was more than what it just looked like... and if didn't eat, then I couldn't swim fast.
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Swim
Swimmer
Sports Me Body
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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.
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Cheesecake
Damn
Empowered
Explore
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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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Long Term
Self Education
Mental
Physical
Schools
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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!'
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Cute
Feel Good
Thighs
Marks
Rolls
Stretch
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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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Strongly
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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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Fitting
Fat
Fitting In
Mirror
Shoots
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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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Rejected
Self Esteem
So Many Years
Toll
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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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Messed Up
One Time
Time Look Remember
Foot
Glass
Messed
Raining
Stepped
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Obviously, breast cancer is very much out there but cervical cancer isn't talked about as much because there's a bit more of a stigma around it. Certainly that's something I want to make sure that young girls know.
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Breast Cancer
Cancer
Stigma
Certainly
Obviously
Talked
Young Girls
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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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Discussion
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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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Arbitrary
Determine
Insignificant
Life Health Myself
Scale
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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.'
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Best Friend
Passive
Bringing
Mirror
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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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Teenager
Beautiful Me People
Mission
Opinions
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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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Ammunition
Frustration
Good Enough Me
Good Me People
Ideal
Standard
Sacrificing
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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.'
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Feel Good
Power Good Business
Consumer
Inclusive
Dollar
Business Good Power
Pound
Stand Up
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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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Hips
Modeling
Negativity
Teenage
Teenage Years
Thighs
Wide
Good Women Enough
Battling
Countless
Pursuing
Virtually
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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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Feel Good
Rejected
Times Square
Good Your Body
Good Enough Your
Billboard
Good Feel Good Body
Scrutinized
So Many Years
Square
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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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Gym
Healthy
Preference
Love Best Work
Natural Way
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I felt like the sample size was right, and my body was wrong. I basically ended up going into battle with my body, and that's a daily battle every time you look in the mirror. Every time you see an image of a successful model or someone who you look up to who doesn't look like you, you think you're not good enough.
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Battle
Not Good Enough
Sample
Time Good Mirror
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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.
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Arms
Crazy Things
Half
Size
Family Me Remember
Editorial
Gap
Gosh
Looked
Magazine
Pictures
Recognize
Tried
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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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Following
Lighting
Realistic
Unattractive
Me Body People
Angles
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