She has quickly become the poster girl for body confidence and acceptance, literally. She appears on billboards for Aerie with zero touching, and always keeps it real on her Instagram account, which has quickly amassed 3.7 million followers. Read about Iskra’s brutally honest take on body image and pressures she felt to change her body from a young age, and how she’s in a better place now.
“I was obsessed with how I looked. I dressed almost always in push bras, trying to be kind of sexy because I was so confused with my body. I was confused in its shape and curves that I didn’t really know what to do with them. I was trying to prove that I was confident in my body, but actually I was hating it.”
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