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Iskra Lawrence: Size 14 model shares photo of herself covered in food after being called fat on Instagram

Lawrence is at the forefront of the body positivity movement and regularly shares unairbrushed photos of herself to her 1.3million followers

Olivia Blair
Wednesday 06 April 2016 12:20 BST
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Iskra Lawrence ( Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images)

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Model and body-positivity activist Iskra Lawrence has sent a powerful message highlighting just how little she cares for body-shaming comments branding her "fat".

Through her 1.3million Instagram followers and her recent campaign for Aerie lingerie, Lawrence has cemented herself as a social media influencer and role model for young women. Unfortunately, for anyone who is a successful blogger trolling is one of the more negative but commonplace aspects of the job.

After receiving a comment from a user who called her a “fat cow” and wrote, "everyone needs to stop eating McDonalds, the NHS is f****d because of people like her eating too many bags of crisps", Lawrence took it upon herself to respond through visual form. Lying in her underwear surrounded by bags of crisps a plenty, the 25-year-old said the post was for “anyone who have ever been called FAT.”

Sarcastically mentioning the “inspirational words” she’d received, she concluded: “Opinions are like a***holes - everyone’s got one”. The post has so far been liked over 68,000 times.

Lawrence is known for sharing candidly honest unairbrushed photos on social media often with the hashtag #everyBODYisbeautiful. A “belfie” she shared in December showcasing her “tiger stripe cellulite” was liked 119,000 times.

In a recent interview with the Independent, Lawrence said she decided to post such pictures because what she was starting to see on social media wasn’t healthy or real, having usually been heavily edited. “It’s actually more worrying to me than runway models or magazines because I think now we realise that that is a bit of fantasy, that’s fashion,” she said. “But social media is meant to be real.”

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