25-year old Iskra Lawrence is quickly gaining lots of attention as a plus-sized model. With her size 14 figure, the British beauty prides herself on being an inspiration for women who don't have the body type that's force fed to them by the media.
"I realized at around 18 that instead of trying to change my body to fit into sample sizes I would try to change the industry," Lawrence told the Daily Mail. "When I signed with my current agencies they helped me realize that I could be a successful model at my size. So I focused on becoming the best version of myself, work harder, research nutrition and work out to feel strong and healthy."
She often posts pics on her Instagram that aren't air brushed.
"oh hey there.. Yes this is clearly a booty pic but do you see why? Because I haven't airbrushed my tiger stripe stretch marks or my cellulite lightening bolts or my back fat because this is my body, I love it it's real and I love posting pictures showing how confident I am because society has taught us we have "flaws" and I'm telling you who gives a.. Because you are more than your body and you get to decide what beauty is," she captioned the photo above.
Check out more Lawrence photos and her dancing to Yo Gotti's"Down In the DM" and Migos' "Fight Night" via her IG below.
"This is how it is: You got those people that are smart enough to know bullsh*t when they see it, and then you got those people who are brainwashed by TV and people having management deals with certain people...I believe in God, right? And peep this: what I've been instilled and what I instill in my son is no matter how much fame you get, remember who you are. So at the end of the day, I'm Wesley. Flip is a name that I made up..."
Lil Flip dropped a ton of knowledge during this exclusive clip with DJ Vlad. On top of speaking on his new lines of work, the Cloverland native addressed the beef between him and T.I. and told us how it all came to an end. "It was a meeting, face to face. Me, him and J. Prince," Lil Flip disclosed as he began to break down how they worked things out. "That's what grown men do - sit down and figure the sh*t out." In the end he said the "cooler head prevailed" before commenting on Lil Keke's stance on the entire ordeal.
Hear about Lil Flip's other business ventures, his current relationship with Scarface, and why he'll never be a yes man in this VladTV interview.
Offset, 1/3 of the rap group Migos, just got released from jail. The rapper headed right to the studio and cooked up this Murda-produced song titled "First Day Out."
A$AP Ferg reflects on the loss of A$AP Mob founder, Yams, in his new song titled "Tatted Angel."
"Sometimes I wish Yams was never using/ When we toured the U.K. I knew I'd lose him/ He went to rehab a year before and seen improvement/ But the fame and excess is what abused him/ But he in Heaven now and I know God will use him," Ferg raps."
David Banner teams up with Tito Lopez for a new tune titled "Black Fist." This is off of his forthcoming album, "The God Box." Produced by Street Symphony, 8x8 and D.O. for Track or Die, LLC
C.Carter a.k.a. Compton Carter is preparing to release a new mixtape titled "96." Here's the music video for "Rent," which will appear on the project. Produced by DeeDotWill.
While Big Sean was out of the country last week his home in the states was robbed.
According to TMZ, the thieves stole $150,000 in jewelry and unpublished music from the rapper's safe. Assuming the jewels were insured that shouldn't be that big of a deal, but the loss of unpublished music could spell disaster for Sean, especially if it's leaked and was planned for a forthcoming album.
Sean's people think the thieves knew he was out of town and had a layout of the house, leading them to suspect it was an inside job.
Money Bandit Gangstas (MBG) is one of the newest movements coming out of Central Florida. Their newest promotional single Farewell is creating traction in the clubs all over Central Florida. Look out for their newest EP dropping first quarter 2016
2-year old North West now has a younger brother to play with.
Kim Kardashian has given birth to her second child with husband Kanye West, according E! Online. Just a day before the reality television star posted a photo of her pregnant stomach on Twitter.
Adele is in a class by herself. Her new album, "25," continues to move units in massive volumes. The British songbird's third effort sold 1,056,429 in it's second week, pushing the 2 week total to 4.4 million.
According to HitsDailyDouble, Adele's "25" is the first album to sell more than 1 million in the 1st and 2nd week.
1.Play Dat Again (Prod. By Ramsay The Great) 2.Sippin (Feat. Plug ) 3.Freestyle (Prod. By Plug) 4.Mucho Gusto 5.Bank$ 6.Just Because (Feat. Josh K) 7.Old Fashioned (Prod. By ILLeet) 8.F*ck Spike Lee (Prod. By ILLeet)
Spike Lee's new movie, "Chi-Raq," has not been well received by a large number of Chicago rappers. King Louie a.k.a. King L lets his feelings be known on his new song titled "Fuck Spike Lee."
(AP) Oscar-nominated actor Robert Loggia, who was known for gravelly voiced gangsters from "Scarface" to "The Sopranos" but who was most endearing as Tom Hanks' kid-at-heart toy-company boss in "Big," has died. He was 85.
Loggia's wife Aubrey Loggia said he died Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a five year battle with Alzheimer's. "His poor body gave up," she said. "He loved being an actor and he loved his life."
Hanks expressed his grief on Twitter.
Farewell, Robert Loggia. A great actor in heart and soul ... A sad day. Hanx
"A great actor in heart and soul," Hanks wrote. "A sad day."
A solidly built man with a rugged face and rough voice, Loggia fit neatly into gangster movies, playing a Miami drug lord in "Scarface," which starred Al Pacino; and a Sicilian mobster in "Prizzi's Honor," with Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner. He played wise guys in David Lynch's "Lost Highway," the spoofs "Innocent Blood" and "Armed and Dangerous," and again on David Chase's "The Sopranos," as the previously jailed veteran mobster Michele "Feech" La Manna.
It was not as a gangster but as a seedy detective that Loggia received his only Academy Award nomination, as supporting actor in 1985's "Jagged Edge." He played gumshoe Sam Ransom, who investigated a murder involving Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges.
Loggia gave an endearing comic performance in Penny Marshall's 1988 "Big," when he danced with Tom Hanks on a giant piano keyboard.
Hanks played an adolescent granted a wish to be big, overnight becoming a 30-something man who __ still mentally a boy __ eventually finds work at a toy company run by Loggia's character. A chance meeting in a toy store leads to the pair tapping out joyful duets of "Chopsticks" and "Heart and Soul" on the piano keys built into the floor.
Loggia also appeared in five films for comedy director Blake Edwards, including three "Pink Panther" films and the dark comedy "S.O.B." He also portrayed Joseph, husband of Mary, in George Stevens' biblical epic "The Greatest Story Ever Told."
Asked in 1990 how he maintained such a varied career, he responded: "I'm a character actor in that I play many different roles, and I'm virtually unrecognizable from one role to another. So I never wear out my welcome."
In 1966 Loggia had the rare opportunity for stardom, taking the lead role in the NBC television drama "T.H.E. Cat."
He played a former circus aerialist and cat burglar who guarded clients in danger of being murdered. When the series was canceled after one season, however, the distraught Loggia largely dropped out of the business for a time.
"It was a Dante's 'Inferno' period for me that most men and women go through if they've taken paths they wished they hadn't," he recalled in a 1986 interview. "I didn't want to work. I was played out and I had to re-spark myself."
His marriage had broken up, and he devoted himself mostly to travel and skiing.
He credited his re-emergence to a couple of plays for Joseph Papp, "Wedding Band" with Ruby Dee and "In the Boom-Boom Room" with Madeleine Kahn.
He returned to TV with a role in a two-part episode of the TV show "Mannix," and he was soon working regularly again. He even starred in another TV series, "Mancuso, FBI," a spinoff of Loggia's character in the 1988 miniseries "Favorite Son."
Among his later roles was as a general and presidential adviser in the 1996 sci-fi thriller "Independence Day."
In 2003 Loggia appeared in four episodes of HBO's "The Sopranos," as gangster Feech La Manna, who was released from prison and sought to return to the Mafia. Tony Soprano worried about La Manna's uncontrollable temper and tricked him into violating his parole.
The son of Sicilian immigrants, Loggia was born in 1930 in New York City's borough of Staten Island. He grew up in Manhattan's Little Italy section.
First inclined toward newspaper work, he studied journalism at the University of Missouri, but was drawn to acting and returned to New York to study at the Actors Studio.
He appeared on "Studio One," ''Playhouse 90" and other live dramatic series during television's Golden Age. He made his stage debut off-Broadway in 1956 in "The Man with the Golden Arm," appearing in the title role of a drug addict, played in the movie by Frank Sinatra.
His Broadway debut came in 1964 with the Actors Studio production of Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" which also appeared in London.
In 1956 Loggia made his film debut in "Somebody Up There Likes Me," playing mobster Frankie Peppo, who tries to persuade boxer Rocky Graziano (Paul Newman) to throw a fight.
Loggia married Marjorie Sloane in 1954, and they had three children, daughters Tracey and Kristina and son John.
After their divorce, Loggia married Audrey O'Brien in 1982.
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This report contains biographical material compiled by former AP writer Bob Thomas.
Today, Friday December 4, would have been Chinx's 32nd birthday. As a tribute to the fallen Far Rockaway, Queens, New York rapper, Remo The Hitmaker, releases the official music video for their collaboration, "Smashin Ya Chick."
Produced by Remo The Hitmaker
Directed by Jayonez
Presented by New Wave Music Inc.
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