Iskra Lawrence dances in bikini on the beach: 'I feel like a 10 no matter what anyone says'
Curvy model Iskra Lawrence is not here for the body bashers.
On Tuesday, the English model posted a fun Instagram video, shot on the famous Santa Monica Pier in California. In the shot, Lawrence dances to Demi Lovato’s hit song “Sorry Not Sorry” while wearing a $35 slate gray Aerie push-up bikini top and matching bottoms.
“Sorry not sorry … I don’t play. I said I don’t retouch or Photoshop the pics I post of me years ago,” Lawrence, 26, captioned the post, which has nearly 378,000 views. “And I’m a woman of my word. So you can talk about something else now, pretty sure there’s MUCH more important things to talk about.”
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She continued, “If we stopped picking each other’s bodies apart we wouldn’t have so many body image issues. And I’ll stay out here feelin’ like a 10 no matter what anyone says.”
It was clearly a beach day for Lawrence, who also shared images of herself posing by a skate park in Venice and on the sandy beach.
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“Grateful I don’t hate my legs anymore, grateful I see their strength and appreciate my body’s capabilities,” Lawrence wrote in another post. “Also I realize I’m highly privileged but damn I love seeing pap pics that aren’t retouched and some of those [tiger] stripes. Because I don’t believe anyone needs retouching — why I don’t ever Photoshop my own pics.”
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Lawrence takes every opportunity to clarify her anti-airbrushing stance. In May, the size-14 beauty split-screened an Instagram photo of herself at a smaller size, and then explained that she was “heavily retouched” in the image.
She wrote on the post, “That smooth a$$ skin? Not mine — a computer program did that. The full thick hair — extensions. Push-up bra. Waist + legs + arms slimmed with a Photoshop tool. No eye bags, well, actually no, nothing that makes me resemble the real me.”
She also called out a lingerie company on Instagram for using her images to sell merchandise —without her consent — and “retouched them like CRAZY.”
And Lawrence publicly thanked a photographer for not retouching her images from a photo shoot, writing on a recent Instagram post, “Because we are all good enough, and what’s beautiful is that we’re imperfectly perfect and all one of a kind. Thank you @ashleyjophoto for celebrating women in your shoots and never retouching me — love you.”
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