"You know, just because Mother Nature fucked me over and made me a torso doesn't mean I shouldn't respect the body she gave me," Lauren would always say, matter-of-factly.

Every morning without fail, she was back in the gym, mostly working her core, which made up most of the workable muscles in her body, after all. She would always finish up with a five-minute plank that left her abs sore as hell, but in the best way.