Iskra Lawrence in Bathing Suit is "32 Feeling Brand New" 

Iskra Lawrence is “Stepping into 32 feeling brand new” – in her swimsuit. The body confidence model flaunts her curves in a cutout swimsuit via her latest social media post. In it, she explains everything she has learned this year, including how to ask and accept help from others, stepped out of her comfort zone, and working through “mom guilt.” “So 32 I’m ready for you,” she added in the Instagram post. How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Iskra Lawrence stays in shape and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!

1. She Suffered From Body Dysmorphia

Iskra, who began her career as a model in her teens, suffered from body image issues. “If being a teenager wasn’t hard enough already, she entered the modeling world at 13 and had a new set of peers to compare herself to—a group that consisted exclusively of sample-sized models. “Relatively I was just a normal, healthy-looking teen. But I developed body dysmorphia and an eating disorder because I had these unrealistic comparisons,” she told Women’s Health.

2. She Avoids Using Negative Terminology

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Iskra avoids using negative terminology to talk about her body. She refuses to use words like “flaw” or “problem area” and replaces other words like cellulite and stretch marks with terms CelluLIT and tiger stripes. “If you can get rid of that negative terminology or embrace it, it’s going to make you feel better,” she told Women’s Health.

3. She Drinks a Nutritious Smoothie in the Morning

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Iskra explained to Life & Style that she likes to start her day off with a smoothie. “Lately, I’ve just been having a smoothie for breakfast because I’ve been at home and I have all my powders and protein, collagen, spinach and I’m literally going crazy,” the U.K. native, 28, said of her diet. “It gets me excited about the day because I know I’m fueling myself with good stuff.”

4. She Switches Up Her Lunch and Dinners

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Iskra maintains variety with the rest of her meals. “For lunch, it can be literally anything. I love Asian food and making my own noodles or stir fry,” she told Life & Style. “For dinner, I love going out. It’s so nice getting together with friends and go out for a nice meal.”

5. She Mixes Up Her Workouts

Iskra does a lot of workouts. Not only does she do strength training in the gym and goes for walks, but loves to strike a pose. “I just tried aerial yoga for the first time,” Iskra revealed to Life & Style. “I really recommend it. It was a little bit painful because of the pressure points, but I felt amazing afterwards. You have to try it.”

Too Hot To Handle star Carly Lawrence is showing off her incredible physique in yet another gorgeous bathing suit. Lawrence posted a video of herself in the brightly-colored two piece, much to the delight of her fans who couldn’t get enough. “It’s called jungle paradise!!!” Lawrence told one commenter who was asking about her sexy swimwear. How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Lawrence stays in shape and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!

1. She Is True To Herself

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Lawrence says when you watch her on TV, what you see is what you get. “I hope people think I represented Toronto well,” she says about her time on Too Hot To Handle. “I just was 100 percent myself. I was like, you know what? I’m just going to be the crazy one on the show, the dorky one, completely myself. I was just like, I’ll just be the weird one. Yeah, I think I did good, I hope. For me it was easy because I just didn’t have to think about it. I just said what I wanted to say, I did what I wanted to do.”

2. She’s a Homebody

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Lawrence is a Toronto native, and knows exactly where she would take someone on a date to explore the city. "I probably would take them to maybe The Chase, Harbour 60 is nice, and then go down to the water,” she says. “Honestly, I'm a really big homebody. I like to go to a couple bars but then I like to come home for my dogs."

3. She Loves To Swim and Dive

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Lawrence is an accomplished swimmer and diver. “Research has shown that being near, in, on or under water can provide a long list of benefits for our mind and body, including lowering stress and anxiety, increasing an overall sense of well-being and happiness, a lower heart and breathing rate, and safe, better workouts,” says Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, author of the book Blue Mind.

4. She Lifts Weights

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Lawrence works out hard—and she isn’t afraid of heavy weights. “Lean muscle mass naturally diminishes with age,” says the Mayo Clinic. “Your body fat percentage will increase over time if you don't do anything to replace the lean muscle you lose over time. Strength training can help you preserve and enhance your muscle mass at any age.”

5. She Knows What She Wants From Relationships

“What I want in a relationship—this is what I need in a partner, what's important to me,” Lawrence says. “I need a guy who's going to respect me and listens to me. Really feeling safe with a partner, trust is a huge thing for me. I've had my trust broken so many times, girlfriends, boyfriends, family... so my biggest thing is trust. I want to be able to trust my partner.”

1. Newlywed Lifestyle

Lawrence married Love Island USA's Bennett Sipes in May 2022 in Los Angeles, and says she is living a healthier life these days. "I've cut out drinking and partying because we're going to Hawaii," she says. "We spend a lot of time with our families, with our dogs and we're so focused on work right now. We have fun, we go to dinner and stuff. We see some of our friends."

2. She Lifts Weights

Lawrence lifts heavy weights as part of her exercise routine. “Lean muscle mass naturally diminishes with age,” according to the Mayo Clinic. “Your body fat percentage will increase over time if you don't do anything to replace the lean muscle you lose over time. Strength training can help you preserve and enhance your muscle mass at any age.”

3. She’s a Homebody

Lawrence describes herself as a homebody, and loves quiet time with her pets. “When we’re frazzled, our fight-or-flight response is on overload causing a host of problems,” says clinical health psychologist Amy Sullivan, PsyD, ABPP. “We can use calm, quiet moments to tap into a different part of the nervous system that helps shut down our bodies’ physical response to stress.”

4. Business Woman

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Lawrence is taking a step into the business world by releasing her own perfume. "I bought every perfume we could think of,” she says. “I thought, 'There's so many that I love, and I was constantly mixing perfumes.' I realized I want girls to buy one fragrance and love it and not spend a ton of money because TikTok is telling them to. It's still in the process. I've had different samples, but I didn't like any of them. This is the first thing I am putting my face on, and I want it to be perfect. I found a new chemist in America, and it's going to take about four months. It's a bunch of my favorite perfumes combined into one. It will be sweet. I am going to start with one and then hopefully it does well.”

5. Too Hot To Handle

Lawrence has fond memories of her time on Too Hot To Handle. “I was having fun, and I wasn’t thinking about it,” she says. “I didn’t care if I was going to get judged, because I knew I was going to be judged regardless. Every episode that you see is genuinely me. Who wants to look at someone who’s not genuine online? It’s too fake and it gets boring. I could tell when some people weren’t being genuine on the show. I could see it myself, and it definitely comes through on camera.”

1. She Loves To Swim

Colby is an accomplished underwater swimmer. "Every time I go for a swim I feel like the earth and my incredible swim colleagues have enabled me to have experienced something pretty amazing," says Dr Jenny Martin, a physician and clinical pharmacologist at the University of Newcastle. "You get a release of hormones that make you feel good, like the molecules that are in morphine drugs, and other feel-good hormones like serotonin, dopamine. After an ocean swim in winter, you sometimes get a temporary natural high when you get out … definitely a euphoric feeling."

2. Paddle Boarding

Colby shares her adventures with paddle boarding on her social media. “I had a breakthrough today with @rinconpaddleboards I have never been able to root myself properly for longer duration. I could get up but it didn’t last long,” she says. “Damiano took the time during our private lesson to break down every detail of what’s happening on the board, in the water and in my body and how to respond for more stability. I have a long way to go and needs to stay lower and work on arm placement but I felt so happy with today’s lesson🎉 I always Learn so much.”

3. She’s a Dancer

Colby is a professional dancer, something she says changed her life from day one. “I discovered Burlesque in Chicago quite some time ago, years and years ago- I was addicted from the first show,” she says. “There’s something very empowering about Burlesque. I started learning right away, I started performing way too soon! There’s some great video footage to prove that. But it’s all been a really fun journey, even watching old videos, it’s cool to see how much more at ease I am with myself and with my audience. But it’s funny, I have maintained the same lumbering stance since I started. There’s nothing delicate about me on stage, I just throw my guts out there and then I walk away and let people sort out what they saw.”

4. Mental Health and Confidence

Colby says giving back to the community is one of the best ways to gain happiness and confidence. “My advice, for what it’s worth… If you’re trying to gain or regain confidence, don’t do it through Burlesque,” she says. “Help in your community, educate yourself, travel, find where your real strength lies.”

5. Embracing Her Unique Looks

Colby is famous for her many tattoos, something she considers a “storyline” for her life. “I don’t think I took collecting tattoos seriously at first,” she says. “I mean my first tattoo was an LBT tribal tramp stamp of a butterfly…Ha! I have definitely acquired some more impressive tattoos since then but I collect them for the story. I’m not afraid of people judging the work I have on my body, it’s a storyline for myself. I love it when my friends work on me, I love to collect the memories, I cannot have an artist work on me that I don’t feel close with. I have to feel a sense of kinship I’ve been very fortunate to find that across-the-board with my tattoo artists.”

Iskra Lawrence is brightening up social media with her latest swimsuit snap! The body confidence icon shows off her gorgeous figure in a neon green bathing suit as she dances around, offering an empowering message to fans. “Remembering to be bold and shine bright ☀️ drop a ☀️ if you’re not letting anyone or anything dull your light☀️,” she captioned the cute clip. How does the model approach health and fitness holistically? Read on to see 6 ways Iskra Lawrence promotes self-love and acceptance and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!

1. She Does “The Mirror Challenge”

In an interview with Celebwell, Iskra explained that she created The Mirror Challenge on Facebook as a simple self-love practice.“I do a lot of work in front of the mirror and I've worked with people who have had, loss, close people dying, people who've gone through infertility, people who have had gone through severe weight loss, and then they've got excess skin, people who have been bullied, people who have experienced racism, and I've done the mirror challenge with all of them,” she told us. “It's the same thing that comes up every time: People are struggling with how they feel about themselves and don't even realize that they're playing a negative narrative.” The Mirror Challenge is simple: Look in the mirror and find three things you love about yourself. “A lot of people can't come up with anything. A lot of people cry, or a lot of people say I'm really stuck. And then I say to them, ‘What are you currently saying to yourself? What's the first thing that you think when you look at yourself in the mirror?’ Literally the first words that come to your head, most of them aren't very nice. They're usually unkind or they're maybe the things that bullies called you in high school and you're still holding on to them. So I do a lot of work with people to offload that and obviously talk about where that came from.” Then, she tells people they can change their narrative. “That is very, very powerful. A lot of people never give themselves eye contact. Even if you think you're looking in the mirror, you're looking at your breakouts, your hair, you're quickly looking at your outfit, you're not looking at yourself with direct eye contact. And it can be kind of jarring at the beginning. But it's a really good way to actually be very honest with how you're feeling about yourself. So I would always encourage people to do that as a starting point. It will be a complete reset, you'll figure out, ‘Oh wow. I have actually been saying to myself some unkind things. Let me try and challenge that.”

2. She Writes Daily Gratitude Lists

Iskra is all about intentional journaling. “Gratitude lists for me are a great way to challenge your mindset if you are feeling down, stressed, or anxious,” she says. She does admit that when she first started, she felt uncomfortable. “I remember when I first got my Louise Hay [affirmation book], and I was with my friend Frankie, who lived in London, and we just thought it was so silly, like getting in front of the mirror and just saying like, ‘We are powerful.’ We were just giggly you know, 21 years old and giggly and we didn't really take it seriously. We were going through our own challenges of figuring out who we wanted to be what we wanted to do with our lives. And we really needed to get something that empowered us. So we just started to say to each other, ‘Why don't we take this seriously, what's the harm?’ We did a lot of vision boarding and we worked on affirmations.’” And guess what? They worked. “You do have to put the work in, you do have to believe it, and you do have to continue using the tools over and over.”

3. She Is Open About Her Self-Love Journey

Iskra openly discusses her self-love journey with those who are close to her. “Just saying, ‘Hey, I'm trying to love myself a little bit more,’ and asking them about their self-care journey. ‘How much time do you spend on it? Do you want to sit down and plan something together?’ I think that's a really great way of implementing it into your friendship group or into your partner's life.”

4. She Connects with Nature

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“Just going outside,” is a great tool for self-love, says Iskra. It should involve “ideally not taking your phone if you feel safe, or keeping your phone in your pocket,” she says. “Going outside and just breathing.” It can also be great in stressful situations. “Just walking outside in nature. It just does something, gets you back in tune with the flow and your breathing.”

5. She Doesn’t “Punish” Herself

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Iskra hasn’t always had a healthy relationship with diet and exercise. “As someone who's had an eating disorder and had body dysmorphia, I used to see exercise as punishment, and I used to simply see it as a means to burn more calories, so I could be in calorie deficit,” she told Celebwell. Once she found “that joy in movement” and realized that exercise didn’t have to be “all or nothing” she started to enjoy it. “Now I know that there are so many different ways I can move my body,” she said.

6. She Challenges Herself

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Iskra gives herself little challenges. “When I do find a new challenge. I then feel really accomplished when I do something that's either unexpected or I know is empowering,” she said.