Iskra Lawrence : (8)

" 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!’ " - Iskra Lawrence

" 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. " - Iskra Lawrence

" Every agency would mention my hips. I remember looking at the other models and thinking, ‘I do not look like these girls.’ " - Iskra Lawrence

" Aerie builds you up, and it makes you feel positive. Why don’t more companies do that? " - Iskra Lawrence

" Be you. Everyone else is already taken. " - Iskra Lawrence

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

" 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

" 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