Sam Smith has been open about his issues with his body acceptance for years, encouraging his fans to be honest about their own struggles with dysmorphia.
Sam, now 26, spent a year overhauling his diet and fitness to shed more than 50lb , having spent his childhood being bullied for being chubby and gay. "Amelia has helped me lose over a stone in two weeks and has completely transformed my relationship with food. Love you Amelia & thank you for making me feel so happy inside and out," he wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post.
"I love food so it's a constant battle. It's always going to be a battle but I'm trying my best," Sam said in an interview with CBS.However, Sam was keen to stress his new way of clean eating wasn't a diet, but rather a tweaked relationship with food."I'm always going to be trying, because I love food more than you could imagine. It's always going to be a struggle for me.
"I'm normally quite healthy, but back then I wasn't, either physically or mentally. I wasn't looking after myself; I was going into a bit of a spiral. I'd lost contact with friends, with family. It wasn't good." However, the singer now seems much more comfortable in his own skin, after a lifetime of internalising those childhood taunts.He candidly wrote: "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.