US EditionSam Smith Recalls Getting Liposuction at 13 After Being Teased at School
Sam Smith described their liposuction at age 13 as a 'nightmare' despite parental support and ongoing struggles with weight and food, revealing impacts of school teasing.
- On Wednesday, November 5, Sam Smith revealed on the Podcrushed podcast that they had liposuction at 13, saying, `I had surgery on my chest when I was 13 years old, because I had a growing chest.`
- After years of taunting at school, classmates at their Hertfordshire school ridiculed Sam Smith's weight more than their queerness, making locker-room and school swimming lessons intolerable.
- Wearing a bandage after the operation, Sam Smith wore the post-surgery bandage like a bra for nearly a year, which put them at the front of the school lunch queue and led to eating more.
- Despite the operation, Sam Smith continued struggling with weight and food issues, and their parents were hugely supportive because it was crippling their daily life.
- As a Grammy and Oscar-winning English singer, Sam Smith previously discussed teen liposuction in 2019 and in 2023 credited Amelia Freer for their recent weight-loss transformation.
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NY Daily NewsSinger Sam Smith reveals he got liposuction at 13
Singer Sam Smith is opening up about his longtime battle with the bulge. The Grammy and Oscar winner who uses they/them pronouns â revealed that they went under the knife as a teenager during early struggles with being obese. “For me, it was always my weight,” Smith, 33, shared in the latest episode of the “Podcrushed” podcast. “My weight as a kid was the hardest thing for me in school, and weirdly the thing I probably got teased the most abou…
Sam Smith has revealed that he underwent liposuction after being bullied at school for his weight. The singer, who is non-binary and uses gender-neutral pronouns, explained that his weight was “the hardest thing” he had to deal with as a teenager. Speaking on the podcast Podcrushed, Sam, 33, admitted that, surprisingly, his weight was the main reason he was teased during his years at a Catholic school in Hertfordshire, which led to the decision …
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