Everybody can rock a bikini, swimsuit, unicorn onesie... whatever floats your boat. If you wear it with confidence, you will look hot.
Iskra Lawrence
Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor.
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.
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!'
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.
There's a direct correlation between media and how we feel about our bodies.
It's easy to forget how powerful our bodies actually are.
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.
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.
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.
For me, health starts from the mind, and it really does start from the inside out.
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.
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.
Aerie builds you up, and it makes you feel positive. Why don't more companies do that?
I think unretouched images are even more beautiful.
I think everyone who shares a piece of themselves and is open and honest - I think that helps us all.
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.
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.
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.
I tried the maple syrup diet. I tried the protein-only Atkins diet.
The most important relationship we have in our lives is the relationship we have with ourselves, and we're not taught about it.
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.
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 treat health and fitness as looking after myself.
Social media should be a true sense of who you are.
I didn't always have a lot of self confidence growing up.
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.
Oh my goodness - Zac Efron has great abs.
I feel like I deserve to be loved because I've learned to love myself.
I did not label myself 'plus size.' The fashion industry did.
You're always 'too' something.
You don't always need to be this flawless female with amazing skin and done hair. Perfect doesn't exist.
Girls shouldn't be worried about their cellulite or their rolls. Or anything that makes us real.
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?
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.
Be you. Everyone else is already taken.
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.
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.
When you're happy and at one with yourself and have come to peace with who you are, that radiates.
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.
Throughout my whole teenage years, I had zero confidence and had to build it from the bottom up.
I don't ever wanna blame my body for not being right.
The more time I invested in myself and finding out what made me unique and special, the more jobs and campaigns I booked.
I had a turbulent relationship with my calves, but I love them now because I realize that they were never the problem.
For so many years, I thought I wasn't good enough.
I had a taste for this fashion industry that I loved and wanted to be a part of.
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 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 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.
We need to realize that we can do anything with our lives because of who we are.
