God she is amazing public speaker. I cried a little when she told about her experience in changing room, because I did experienced that and how I hated myself so much. You're totally my roll model iskra.
For those of you criticizing her for being a model or wondering her credibility, her credibility lies in her popularity as an Aerie model with a curvier body. Personally, I think it's an important conversation to have and she is a great candidate to enforce the one sided media image we are shown because she represents a strong, athletic, woman's body. She's young and beautiful, but understands her popularity and decided to do something with it, which is commendable. As a person who has struggle with body image and eating disorders, I applaud that she encourages working out, eating healthy, and self-care. I don't think the point of body positivity is to encourage obesity, but to say that you need to love yourself no matter where your body is. After all, hating yourself, if you are obese, is most likely not going to lead to healthy weight loss. We need women to value their bodies and feel beautiful. We need men and women to feel this way. Underweight/overweight people need to love themselves or they will never reach a healthy weight. It's about enjoying life.
Model agencies are private parties. They can ask for any beauty standard they want. I don't go out and complain why Gucci wouldn't make me their next model. She is a pretty girl, and her talking about insecurities genuinely pissed me off.
I had a food and nutrition class and one of the assignments was to go stand in front of a mirror, jump around, and see if anything bounces where it's not "supposed" to.... no body did it because they were either ashamed or thought it was a compete waist of time. We were 15 years old and that is honestly so irresponsible to tell children skinny is healthy.
______ Turtle perfection takes over our lives and consumes our thoughts like it did to you. You're messed up bro sometimes things are gonna jiggle but that doesn't mean we're unhealthy or fat. you are strange
I think this is why I admire this woman so much. Notice how in her speech it's not just all about women's body issues...she also includes boys and men. Almost every plus sized female model who does interviews or speeches, totally ignores men's issues and only focuses on females. Like she said, we got guys killing themselves down at the gym lifting heavy weights and abusing roids. It's true, and I have witnessed this first hand. What a truly beautiful person Iskra Lawrence is.
My daughter is twelve years old, and developing early. She has been dealing with body image issues for awhile, and been subjected to things that she is too young to deal with. Her body image has been distorted by what she has been told is beautiful, and I have been showing her your videos. Izkra, I just wanted to tell you that every inch of you is beautiful, especially your soul. Thank you for being an inspiration, and role model. You are amazingly loveable, and such an inspiration. Stay beautiful, you are such a good soul.
Good public speaker Too bad for her her romantic interests tells any half brain human being that her self esteem is really fragile.Talks are cheap actions are expensive
What a sweetheart, she is beautiful and managed to normalize this conversation for both men and women. What a blessed conversation and absolutely on point for everyone!
Few things have actually managed to help me, but this talk has changed my life in a way I could never have thought it would. Thank you with all my heart for this Iskra, you should be proud to be such a role model, inspiration and friend to everyone whom you have impacted like this.
I loved when she mentioned the butt pads and the camera man caught her from a different angle that shows her butt haha, she's literally an inspiration for me, I really want to be like her, you feel her kindnesses and humbleness through the screen.. I love you so much iskra and I'm so proud of you !! ❤❤
One of the most sincere ted talks I've ever seen. She's simple and natural and talking from the heart but still professional. I'm happy to have seen it and be inspired. Thank you Iskra!
Iskra's speech reminded me of my aunt's words decades ago before she passed away " Girls what are you doing with that weight scale? Let me tell you a story.... a young girl came to the hospital about a year ago, she had passed out during class in school, when her parents arrived at the hospital the doctor explained their daughter was bulimic and she needed to stay at the hospital and receive 24/7 care. After six months of therapy she came back to the hospital -- she came back to thank the doctors and nurses for bringing her back from the brink. You see it's not about losing or gaining weight but about "How comfortable are you in your own skin? Own it, live it, and take care of yourself". And auntie was the person who nursed the girl back to health. #❤you Educate yourself and others.
I love her. Why why can't we all be so happy like this? Why doesn't everyone care so much enough to help others? Even with her background, not loving, even hating the way she looked. So cool. Wow. And I'm not her, but I'm still so happy.
I love Iska and find her real and inspiring, and when she ended with "the real beauty ideal is being imperfectly you" i was so happy. "Being healthy" seems to be the usual catchphrase, but there's a lot of chronically ill people who will never achieve that. Also the idea of "healthy" is not as black and white as most paint it as, especially not when it comes to both physically and mentally. Imperfectly you is ten times better
I wish I watched the video earlier. Her speech is so inspirational and life- changing. I feel like she is talking about own my life, my daily struggle: how I was usually insecure about my appearance, my ability. Seeing how great people are on social media even makes me feel more depressed. They're wealthy, good- looking and have such an ideal occupation. But now, I'm trying to change my mind. I need to accept my flaws and love myself. Everyone has their own unique beauty and value.
Watching this for the 10th time and will continue to watch it on days when I don’t feel good enough and remind myself that I’m more than enough no matter what.
I just watched this after an in-home workout, during in which I was squeezing the fat on my stomach and yelling at my body for it. I love it when it when Iskra says, "Imagine being able to give the gift of self-love to your loved ones."
What a clear message. I hope everyone shares this video. I applaud Iskra for reminding us how media is designed to make us feel insecure (including social media). When she said, "if we are insecure, we are a motivated consumer ... Guess what? Who wins from this battle? The brands, the magazines, the pharmaceutical industry. And who looses? We loose." It's all too easy to forget this and feel like you're nothing more than a massive to-do list of dietary supplements, work outs, the perfect clothes, beauty routines, treatments, and products to feel worthy by becoming that perfect (unattainable) person, but that's how companies are cashing in. They feed on our insecurities and self-worth.
She doesn't. All because someone talks about their experience doesn't mean that they're egotistical. It's easy to think that when someone's being assertive or sharing a view.
I honestly have no words to describe what she is doing, I feel very proud of you, I wish there were more people like that in today's world, she is an angel. and at the same time the strongest and most determined woman I've ever seen, I admire you very much iskra! and you are very pretty, god bless you never change
Thank you for being so unapologetically you even coming from a past with so much guilt and shame. It's inspiring to know that it doesn't have to always be like this, that life is more than never feeling good enough. Who do we want to be enough for? Isn't it enough to have a healthy and loving vessel that is capable of giving life? To feel things, to see the world, to do good. It's something I need to remind myself on the daily - that that, is enough for me.
Even though I don't struggle with insecurities with my body today to the extent I once did, I was cleaning out the notes on my phone today and came across this. It was under the title 'if you're ever feeling insecure, watch this' and I have a few notes like these so I watched this and it reminded me of how far I've come. I was so close to an eating disorder. As soon as I would eat something bad I'd promise myself not to eat anything till the next day. The whole 'don't eat till you're full' thing was a sentence I took very seriously in my everyday life and man did this girl inspire me to stop. Iskra made me realise that no matter how much thinner I got, I would just want more. I began to see that even though I decided when I got my stomach to be as thin as I had wanted I suddenly wanted it thinner. These goals were ones I would never achieve and I have this girl to thank for making me realise this
What an amazing speaker!! You can see how she really revs up and gets more and more comfortable on the stage. She's right though, the media and ad industry have been cashing in on women's insecurities for a long time and the only way to change this obviously successful marketing strategy is to change our own mindsets. Women are told indirectly every day that our value lies in our appearance, so it's a matter of identifying that as either a power mechanism for men or a marketing strategy, and choosing to reject it. Obviously much easier said than done.
So much truth. Realizing I started having so much more issues with my body after highschool and hearing my friend's complain about their own. Ignorance was bliss.
She seems to be very confident women ,whatever she spoke she mean it every bit ,that's why she is able to connect with audience/youtube viewers ,theory of caring too much about how we look may be something to do with we have so much free time to think of it ,best way is to pick up habit and get lost in that and be the best in the world in that
It's been said in person language that "what all the gorgeous people have ,you have" physically & mentally... Congratulation to you & your partener,❤️❤️❤️
To the people saying ‘well she’s one to talk, she’s a perfect 10!’ How about instead of discrediting her because of the way she looks you focus on what she’s actually saying.
the thing she said about social media is so true, i have recently become to realize it more and more, and how it affects my life, i stay away from social media now as much as i can, i world literally deactivate my instagram whenever i have the chance to, my twitter ? i don't log in, i reactivate it every once in a while, 3-4 years ago, i didn't know how much it makes me feel bad about myself comparing myself to others in a very toxic way, i never knew i could think in a very envious way of people who got more likes than i did or more followers than i have or post prettier pictures than mine, you may think it's actually really cool how i have learned so much about myself ever since but the sad thing is that the way i think hasn't actually changed, i didn't grow up in my thoughts, the only thing i did was keeping myself away from what made me go mad and angry about myself a little more often, what's more sad is that when i think of quitting social media entirely i think of how i would miss it, and i have tried that before, and i did regret it a lot. it's sad how living in this time it's mandatory to be on social media, it's mandatory to have attention and self-worth represented with numbers of likes and followers, it's sad how whenever someone wants to know something about you they look you up and the very first thing they see is what you only chose for the world to see, perfect lies
This is awesome! 💕First step to accepting yourself is stop comparing yourself to others, do you. Love yourself, most people have struggled with this at some point in their life x
Thank you for showing your concern madam. If we, the True and Eternal Collective, as a part of the Father, could be taught the truth about who we really are, the beauty and potential within each of us would shine forth as a unique beacon in the darkness. We need only look within ourselves for our true seat of potential and live as we know we should. There is only one truth upon which to focus....love, light, and life. We need not be held captive audience to specific manners of thinking but embrace the uniqueness and individuality of our Divine spark inside each of us
I needed this I remember my mom use to say my chest was to big and people in high school use to call me totty boy. So happy someone is talking about body image issues .
Interesting name ISKRA = spark. It's sparkplug that propels the car in motion. The power of her speech, honesty, and delivery will trigger and set aflame like a spark some self-reflection in a lot of minds.
i listen this video while stretching after fitness. As a considered plus-size ballerina ( ou know with a IMC of 24), I'm a huge advocate of this positivity
The human body is nothing more than a vessel and a vehicle, a wonderful way for our soul and spirit to move about this world that we are all a part of. We should all be mindful of what comes out of our minds through our mouth in the form of human communication.
I looked up the photo with the crips ! It was awesome specially the message written on the photo addressed to her bully !! Loved it ! We should All Stand up to the bullies
I'm crying right now because I do blame my physical appearance. Like I always questions myself why I am small, I'm 23 y/o but I'm 4'9", why I have this kind of face, I look like a 17 y/o little girl, I wanna be a teacher but my height, my face, my blah blah don't fit for what i wanna be, what am i gonna do??
