Sam Smith: Food 'Controlled Me'
Women do it all the time. But it's not often that the men in Tinseltown talk about about their weight, unless they're talking about how they added tons of muscle for a new role.
However, Sam Smith is an exception. The "Lay Me Down" crooner spoke candidly about his body and a 14-pound weight loss in 14 days last month during an interview with 60 Minutes Australia on Sunday.
"From a young age food has controlled me," the 22-year-old Smith revealed.
Related: Sam Smith Shows Off 14-Pound Weight Loss
"When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well. I would eat, eat," he explained. "Eating would make me feel better, when I felt lonely I would eat."
The British singer, who is gay, said that slurs about his weight hurt him more than those about his sexuality. "If someone called me fat, that affects me way more than someone calling me a f-----," Smith said. "I think just because I've accepted that, if someone calls me a f-----, it's like, I am gay and I'm proud to be gay so there's no issues there." His weight, he noted, is "something I can change."
Smith's new outlook on food comes courtesy of Amelia Freer, a nutritionist who emphasizes clean, unprocessed foods. Smith wrote Friday on Instagram that he's still four pounds away from his goal weight but is already "happier and healthier than ever."
