Iskra Lawrence shows how easy it is to fake a 'thigh gap' on Instagram

'I'll be the first one to tell you pictures are all about good lighting and angles,' Lawrence says

Iskra Lawrence ( Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images)

Although she may be one of Instagram’s rising stars, Iskra Lawrence wants to remind her 1.8million followers that social media isn’t alway what it seems.

Since being dropped by a modelling agency for being "too big" during her early teens, Lawrence has emerged as a prominent body positivity campaigner and model on Instagram. She has a following of 1.8million and her pictures vary from promoting the lingerie range she fronts to shutting down body shamers. Now, her latest post is making waves by showing just how easy it is to manipulate photos.

The size 14 model recently shared two photos of herself in the same outfit side by side. The one difference: a “thigh gap”.

The left image shows Lawrence with no thigh gap and the photo on the right shows her with one.

“I’ll be the first one to tell you pics are all about good lighting and angles,” Lawrence says in the caption. “Always remember social media’s not real life, never let anyone else’s pics make you feel insecure about yourself.

“If you don’t look like her and she doesn’t look like you that’s how it’s meant to be,” she writes.

Lawrence regularly shares posts promoting body confidence and in March spoke to the Independent about posting unedited photos. “I’ve posted a bikini picture, and I haven’t used one of those apps to airbrush it. I saw what a lot of Instagram girls were doing and I just thought, ‘this isn’t healthy’, and it’s actually more worrying to me than runway models or magazines because I think now we realise that that is a bit of fantasy, that’s fashion. But social media is meant to be real. It’s meant to be a girl that has taken a quick selfie out on a day out and posted it. But no, there is probably 50 more selfies [that were taken], she might have spent an hour editing that, and that is what is sad.”

Instagram has become a platform for a new style of “celebrity” to emerge, however the Insta-world was rocked last year when one of its stars Essena O’Neill shared a tearful video proclaiming: “Social media isn’t real”. The Australian model shared details of being paid for seemingly authentic shoots as well as revealing her misery while presenting an apparently ‘perfect’ life.