Curvy model 'made to wear fat padding' as she was 'too small' for plus size shoots
dailystar.co.ukuncomfortable F1 grid girl audition when she was only 16. READ MORE: Curvy model Iskra Lawrence 'catcalled' at 16 in 'uncomfortable' F1 grid girl audition And, the model also shared her frustration at being shut out from some agency work for her curvaceous figure, only to be told to wear fat padding at other shoots to make her appear bulkier.“I was a successful model at that point in that I was able to pay my rent and eat, there were many years when I was not,” she began, speaking on the Real Pod podcast.“So I did feel like I was a model, and I felt more confident calling myself a model, even though I simultaneously felt embarrassed because people would look me up and down when they asked me.”Despite having started to make a sustainable living from her work, Iskra admitted that her figure had caused contention among the community, which she claimed consistently judged her for her size.“I felt like I had to say [I was a] plus size model.
Other plus size models didn’t like me because I was kind of coming into their industry and sometimes getting their jobs,” she recalled.“At the same time, I would book clients and then when I was on set, the actual people who were the stylists were then like, ‘you’re way too small, we need you to wear fat padding’.“It was a really tricky time, and at some point I had to say to my agency, ‘I do not want to pad, this isn’t why I went down this route.
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