Iskra Lawerence, curve model.

By Caroline Bliss Duffy

I went on my first diet in 2nd grade.

Forget that fruit roll up, unless you want a big belly that other kids poke at and yell “Blubber!”

By age 13 I was playing soccer and taking kickboxing classes. And I hardly ate.

At 5’8” I weighed 123 lbs, but still felt “fat” — an obsession that continued until I was 16, when I started doing some modeling in the city. By then I was a “hefty” 132 lbs. My agency took me but said I should get down to 125 lbs if I wanted constant work. Read the rest of this entry →