Pregnant Model Iskra Lawrence Gets Candid About Body Insecurities After Wearing Bump-Baring Crochet Look

Iskra Lawrence is getting real about body image. 

The British model, who is pregnant with her and boyfriend Philip Payne's second child, took to Instagram to open up about her insecurities after stepping out in an ultra-bump-baring crochet cover-up, swim top, micro shorts and gold Ingiliz leather pumps for Cupshe’s Birthday Pool House event on June 26.

“Insecurities don’t switch off completely even after years of ‘doing the work.’ I feel like once you’ve lived with body dysmorphia/an ED it’s always still alive in the back of your mind somewhere,” Lawrence, 33, wrote in a lengthy Instagram caption. 

She admitted she “almost didn’t wear” the revealing look due to “feeling super insecure about the swelling of my legs.” 

“Your girl has always had some string chunky legs. In fact I grew up being ‘warned’ that I’ll get ‘the Lawrence bum and leg’ like it was a curse and something to be dreaded.” 

She added: “The majority of the time I’m empowered by how powerful my legs are (I know perfect doesn’t exist and to not compare myself to smooth retouched images when lumps, bumps, stretchies, scars, bruises, veins, pigmentation are natural, normal and beautiful) but I have to be real.” 

Lawrence then shared that she was going through a period of self-awareness with her body. “But," she added, "thank F I didn’t let that (or the recent troll comments) stop me from wearing this @cupshe outfit to their birthday party."

She concluded her message with: “Little Iskra would be proud to be rocking some short shorts unapologetically and I hope if you’re going through a tough body image day/week/month/year this is your reminder to still show up and know you’re enough."

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This wouldn’t be the first time Lawrence has addressed naysayers. 

After she walked Cupshe’s runway show during Miami Swim Week in a bikini (which made for the ultimate maternity style moment), she revealed that she’d received negative comments about her body. Her response was to clap back with class. 

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"I'm still in disbelief that in 2024 (and with everything going on in the world) that fat shaming a pregnant woman seemed like the best use of your time?" she wrote on Instagram under photos of her catwalk moment. 

Lawrence also shared the post on her Instagram Stories, telling the “haters” that their comments “only motivates me to show up and be more confident and prove all bodies are worthy and enough.”

Lawrence and her partner are also parents to 4-year-old son Alpha. Back in April, she announced in an Instagram post that they would be growing their brood and were "finally going to be a family of 4."