Sam Smith Opens Up About Struggle With Body Image: ‘I’ll Always Be at War With This’

Sam Smith posted a photo on his Instagram page of himself with no shirt on.
He said in the past if he were doing a photo shoot with no shirt on he would starve himself for weeks.
He went on to say that yesterday, he decided to fight back and reclaim his body and stop trying to change his chest and hips and curves.
He wrote, some may take this as narcissistic and showing off but if you knew how much courage it took to do this and the body trauma I experienced as a kid you wouldn’t think those things.

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In the past if I have ever done a photo shoot with so much as a t-shirt on, I have starved myself for weeks in advance and then picked and prodded at every picture and then normally taken the picture down. Yesterday I decided to fight the fuck back. Reclaim my body and stop trying to change this chest and these hips and these curves that my mum and dad made and love so unconditionally. Some may take this as narcissistic and showing off but if you knew how much courage it took to do this and the body trauma I have experienced as a kid you wouldn’t think those things. Thank you for helping me celebrate my body AS IT IS @ryanpfluger I have never felt safer than I did with you. I’ll always be at war with this bloody mirror but this shoot and this day was a step in the right fucking direction 👅🤘🏼🍑

A post shared by Sam Smith (@samsmith) on Feb 12, 2019 at 10:15am PST