Steph Claire Smith has opened up about her past eating disorder and her unhealthy relationship with food in a candid interview.
The influencer, 29, revealed on A Life Of Greatness podcast, she used to scream at her mother for using olive oil in her cooking.
‘For a period of time, I would be angry at mum for using certain ingredients like olive oil and stuff,’ an emotional Steph admitted.
‘I remember even years after I learnt what I was doing was wrong. I would go over for dinner and the things mum would offer me or suggest would be the changes I had made her do at home and I was like “Oh you don’t have to do that anymore”.’
She continued: ‘A lot of my friends from school grew up with their mums on every fad diet under the sun, picking apart their bodies quite openly and that was their norm.’
Steph Claire Smith has opened up about her past eating disorder in a candid interview on the A Life Of Greatness podcast
‘I was lucky enough that at least in my home space, that wasn’t the case. And I want to be that way as a mum now.’
It comes after Steph recently revealed how her eating disorder inspired her wildly successful business, Keep it Cleaner.
Steph, who owns the health empire with her business partner Laura Henshaw, said she started to have unhealthy relationship with food a decade ago during her career as a full-time model.
In the lengthy note written over a TikTok video, Steph said she ‘continuously fell into the comparison trap’ between other female models and the beauty standards set in the industry.
‘My entire worth was attributed to the way I looked. There wasn’t a second in the day I wasn’t thinking ahead about food, restricting myself from foods that I loved, and overeating on anything I allowed myself to eat,’ the mother-of-one said.
She added she’d often make herself sick or get upset ‘out of disgust and disappointment’ in herself for falling into the vicious cycle.
The influencer, 29, told host Sarah Grynberg, she used to scream at her mother for using olive oil in her cooking. Pictured left as a 19-year-old
Steph explained it wasn’t until she became friends with her now-business partner Henshaw, who had gone through a similar experience, she decided to launch a career path into health and body positivity.
‘By 2015 we had around 500,000 followers on Instagram. It was through connecting with this online community, that we knew we weren’t alone in our struggles and that we wanted to do something about it,’ she continued.
‘It started with a recipe ebook, then a subscription blog, published a hard copy book, then launched a web program, then a grocery label and thennnnnn in 2018, we launched the Kic app.’
The Keep it Cleaner (KIC) app is an health-based app offering nutritious recipes, workout programs and mindful activities like meditation.
It comes after Steph recently revealed how her eating disorder inspired her wildly successful business, Keep it Cleaner
