Spider-Man's Laura Harrier in Bathing Suit Shares a Special Selfie

Laura Harrier is heating up the beach with her latest swimsuit snap! The Spider-Man: Homecoming and Hollywood star flaunts her amazingly fit figure via her latest Instagram post, wearing a bathing suit with futuristic sunglasses. It’s no surprise the photo elicited a bunch of fire emojis from her million-plus followers. How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Laura Harrier 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 Gets 9 Hours of Sleep

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Laura prioritizes sleep. She goes to sleep “around 11 pm” and wakes up at 8am. “It varies as my schedule is all over the place - and most of the time I'm really jetlagged,” she told Elle UK. “I love mornings but it's always a struggle to wake up.” “We have solid evidence that exercise does, in fact, help you fall asleep more quickly and improves sleep quality,” says Charlene Gamaldo, M.D. , medical director of Johns Hopkins Center for Sleep at Howard County General Hospital. “But there’s still some debate as to what time of day you should exercise. I encourage people to listen to their bodies to see how well they sleep in response to when they work out,” she told Hopkins Medicine.

2. Her Diet Is “About Moderation”

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“I feel happiest when...I see friends, eat pasta and drink wine. Being with people I love is so important to me,” Laura told Elle. While she eats healthy most of the time, she allows herself to indulge. “For me, diet is about moderation. I work out, but I love cheese, pasta and wine,” she added to The Skincare Edit.

3. She Mixes Up Her Workouts

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Laura’s exercise routine “varies,” she told Elle. “I have phases of training loads, then I lose interest.” She added to The Skincare Edit that Dogpound and SoulCycle are two of her favorite workouts. “In New York, I would go to the Dogpound. In L.A., I go to SoulCycle and barre class and hot yoga, but I bounce around. Also, I’ve been travelling so much that it’s hard to keep anything together. I downloaded the Nike app to work out while I travel, and I think I did it once,” she said.

4. She Takes Probiotics

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Laura starts the day with a shot…of probiotics. “Bio-K Plus probiotic yogurt shots - I take them first thing in the morning for digestion,” she told Elle. "Some digestive disease specialists are recommending probiotic supplements for disorders that frustrate conventional medicine, such as irritable bowel syndrome. Since the mid-1990s, clinical studies suggest that probiotic therapy can help treat several gastrointestinal ills, delay the development of allergies in children, and treat and prevent vaginal and urinary infections in women," says Harvard Health.

5. She Hydrates

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Laura emphasized that when it comes to health “It’s all so connected,” and hydration is a key part of it. “If I do my yoga and drink tons of water and center myself with friends and family, then I notice my body tends to calm down. Sometimes—not always—my skin will fall in step,” she told The Skincare Edit.

1. Ant Man and the Wasp Diet

Lilly was forced to eat smaller meals while in her Ant Man and the Wasp costume. “I have to eat in very small quantities all through the day, instead of like a sit-down meal,” she explains. “I'm a big sit-down meal kind of gal. I grew up in, you know, a blue collar home where you had three square meals a day and then you worked the rest of the day. I'm not that LA girl who's like, 'I'm just going to have a nibble and then I'll be back.' That's not my style, no, but yeah in this costume that's me.”

2. Meditation Sessions

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Lilly follows a meditative practice called The Presence Process, by Michael Brown. “There are kind of two large, broad categories [of meditation],” she says. “One is transcendental. I am going to, for lack of a better way of putting it, escape reality and go to another place, another plane where things are peaceful and calm, and I can regain my center and regain my perspective and then come back refreshed. The type of meditation you do in the Presence Process is all about actually getting really present with what is happening right now and what you're doing and what you're in and what you're feeling. Not in any way getting away from it.”

3. Strong Female Character

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Lilly appreciates portraying a strong character without worrying about being objectified. “I’m allowed to be a character when I’m not sexual or sexy, it’s about if I’m capable and confident and able to do the job that needs to get done. That was a gift Marvel gave me and continues to give to me. They make all the men take their shirts off, but they don’t make us take our shirts off.” Lilly loved having an all-female battle scene in Avengers: Endgame. “It was a great day, being surrounded by women,” she says. “It’s the most comfortable I’ve ever felt on a film set. There was none of the stuff that goes along with being around a bunch of dudes. It was just me and the ladies.”

4. Self-Care

Lilly emphasizes how important self-care is, especially when the world seems chaotic. "I think this is the hardest time in human history to keep your spirit in your body,” she says. “We have constant distraction and choice, which can be very destabilizing and get in the way of experiencing life. So it's important to engage in activities regularly that reunite you with yourself. For some people it's prayer, reading, meditation, or a breathing practice. For others it's a dinner party."

5. Short Hair Confidence

Lilly says cutting her hair short took pressure off her to look conventionally attractive. “There’s this pressure to maintain that, and make sure you’re always pleasing the male gaze,” she says. “And I found myself one day really waking up to that and going, ‘I’ve never liked my hair. It’s too pretty, it’s boring’, and I’ve always admired women who were cool and had cool hair. … I’ve never felt more empowered. I’ve never been better at advocating for myself. I don’t feel I’m going to be put out to pasture, I don’t feel like the end is near. I feel this is a new beginning of a second journey in my life and I love it.”