Sam Smith reveals that he had liposuction at the age of 12 and that his body image is "the basis of all my sadness".

Sam Smith revealed that he had had liposuction to relieve his body image problems while he was only a child.

"I had liposuction and was 12," Smith said in an interview with Jameela Jamil on Friday in the episode of his Instagram series "I Weigh Interviews". "At the time, I felt very happy about that. It has not really changed. I think I gained weight in two weeks because I did not understand my relationship with food, so it did not really change. But being 12 years old and having a liposuction on your chest is a problem.

The crooner "Stay With Me" stated that he had been aware of himself for as long as he remembered and that he had a habit of "stopping". being bullied because he had "breasts".

And while his fight against body image today is "the basis of all my sadness," Smith decided to talk about his insecurities because he did not "really find a lot of men talking about it" .

"Especially no known men," he says. "Even talking about this cat seems odd to me, because guys do not talk about it on a large scale."

He continued, "It's the conversation about toxic masculinity, it's not that that weighs all the time on guys. It weighs on me. It's not manly to talk about how I feel in my body every day, but that's what I'm trying to fight. "

As a result of his public revelations, Smith, 26, said that the interview with Jamil "completely changed my life."

"Being able to talk openly about my bodily problems and feel safe while practicing it was really liberating … It took me a long time to do it and I was so nervous, so be nice, haha, "he wrote on social media. "I really hope it can make someone else who feels like me, a little less lonely and a little less alien.

With his new courage, the singer takes control of the situation.

"Yesterday, I decided to fight the f – k," he said. "Recover my body and stop trying to change that chest, hips and curves that my mom and dad have created and love unconditionally."

This article originally appeared in the New York Post.