99 Quotes by Iskra Lawrence

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.

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

The more time I invested in myself and finding out what made me unique and special, the more jobs and campaigns I booked.

I tried the maple syrup diet. I tried the protein-only Atkins diet.

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.

I feel like I deserve to be loved because I've learned to love myself.

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.

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.