Body image issues behind him, Sam Smith promises to fight back hard

Sam Smith has opened up about his struggle with body image and has revealed that he used to ‘‘starve himself for weeks’‘ before photoshoots. The Promises singer, 26, took to Instagram to share the “body trauma” he says he has experienced and now he has “decided to fight the f*** back”.

“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 f*** 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,” the singer posted on Instagram alongside a topless picture.

“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,” Smith added. Fans praised the singer for opening up.

“You look amazing! And you’re a beautiful person inside and out,” one of his followers wrote. The photographer Smith mentioned in his post also took to the platform to applaud him.

PHOTO: INSTAGRAM/SAMSMITH Sam Smith posted a topless picture of himself (inset) and wrote a long post declaring ‘war’ on body image issues