Growing up, Iskra Lawrence was accused of being “too fat” to be. At the age of 15, she signed a contract with a casting agency and at first, due to critical comments, she decided to lose weight in order to achieve success. This came only when she accepted her body and began to expose her shapes.
They said she was too fat to be a model. “If this doesn’t change, you won’t make a career”
32-year-old Iskra Lawrence today is a very successful model. In the TV show “” she confessed to the host Natalie Ellis that at the beginning of her career she took test photos and walked on the catwalks, but she quickly realized that her deviates from the standards. “I’ve been told ‘your hips are two inches too big and if that doesn’t change you won’t have a career.’ Some agents would come back later and say I was too feminine, too curvaceous, too mature. And I was about 15 then.
Iskra, who lived in the UK at the time, confessed that she was obsessed with measuring her body. She spent several years struggling with weight and tried to “fix the problem”. The breakthrough came when she found out from a friend about the existence of a modeling agency with a plus size branch in the USA. – I went to an agency that has a plus size section, but they said my size was too small. This moment was a turning point. I’m done changing for others.
Iskra Lawrence has accepted herself. Then her career took off
Initially, Iskra worked with marketing agencies of companies such as “M&S” or “Tesco”, presenting herself as a model “between sizes”, and later signed a contract with “Aerie” and became an ambassador of body positivity. Then her career took off. Unretouched photos, in which she was not afraid to expose her natural body, quickly gained popularity and publicity on the Internet.
Forbes magazine recognized Iskra Lawrence as one of the most outstanding women promoting the body positive movement, and hard work in 2016 also earned her a place on the list of the 100 most influential women of “BBC World”. Today, Iskra’s fortune is valued at over $2 million.
Source: Gazeta
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