Iskra Lawrence Quotes

I feel like - I know I talk about it all of the time. Body issues, online bullying, it is a thing. People go through it.

I avoid social media and articles with negative comments about myself, because the first few times that I got called 'fat' broke my heart; it absolutely destroyed me. It's awful when someone says something like that to you.

I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been able to write back to a few of them, but I've been able to write and have correspondence with a few of them and really talk about what I think they should do or if I think they should ask for help.

I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.

You're never going to look perfect to yourself even if you might look perfect to somebody else.

I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.

I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.

As a 15, 16-year-old girl, someone messaging you on Facebook and telling you you're fat is devastating. It's still devastating when someone says something horrible about me, but I love myself so much more as a person.

Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.

I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.

You could have the thickest skin but Instagram and Twitter still affect you. It makes you envious, even if you've got everything you could ever want.

So much of what young people perceive about their body image is taken from watching their parents... I think we need to look at ways we can help parents pass on more positive messages to their children, and perhaps some of that can be done through health visitors, for example.

I would hope that young girls could relate to me and see that the lives of people on the internet are not as perfect as they seem.

I've become very aware of body issues and body confidence.

I'm not the ugliest guy in the world.

The worst thing any of us can do for our self-esteem is compare ourselves to others, and that's especially true of women.

I think all girls do struggle with image, despite not knowing what's going on with other people.

It's hard when you get into an Instagram hole, because we live in such a Facetuned world. You see all these girls are in their bathing suits, and it's hard not to think, 'I wish I looked like that.' But you can only be your own personal best.

With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.