Steph Claire Smith broke down in tears as she opened up about her past eating disorder and unhealthy relationship with food in a heartbreaking interview this week.
The influencer, 29, revealed on the A Life Of Greatness podcast that at the height of her disorder she shouted at her mother for using olive oil in her cooking.
“For a while I was angry at my mother because she used certain ingredients, like olive oil and stuff,” an emotional Steph admitted.
“I remember, even years after I found out that what I was doing was wrong, I would go to dinner and the things that my mother would offer or suggest to me were the changes that I had her do at home and I would think, ‘Oh, you do not do that’. I don’t have to do that anymore.”
She added that many of her classmates had a poor relationship with their bodies because they grew up in an era when their mothers followed “fad diets.”
Steph Claire Smith has opened up about her past eating disorder in a candid interview on the A Life Of Greatness podcast
“Many of my friends at school grew up with their mothers following every new diet under the sun, openly tearing their bodies apart and that was their norm,” she explained.
‘I was lucky that that wasn’t the case at my house. And that’s how I want to be as a mother now.’
Steph recently revealed how her eating disorder inspired her hugely successful business, Keep it Cleaner.
The mother-of-one, who owns the health empire with her business partner Laura Henshaw, said she began developing an unhealthy relationship with food during her career as a full-time model a decade ago.
In the lengthy note written on a TikTok video, Steph said she “constantly 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 that I wasn’t thinking ahead about food, limiting myself to foods I loved, and overeating everything I allowed myself to eat,” the mother of one said.
She added that she often made herself sick or became upset “out of disgust and disappointment” at falling into the vicious cycle.
The influencer, 29, told host Sarah Grynberg that she yelled at her mother for using olive oil in her cooking. On the left in the photo as a 19-year-old
Steph explained that she only decided to embark on a career path towards health and body positivity when she became friends with her current business partner Henshaw, who had gone through a similar experience.
‘In 2015 we had around 500,000 followers on Instagram. Connecting with this online community helped us know that we were not alone in our problems 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 in 2018 we launched the Kic app.”
The Keep it Cleaner (KIC) app is a health-based app that offers nutritious recipes, exercise programs, and mindful activities like meditation.
It comes after Steph recently revealed how her eating disorder inspired her hugely successful business, Keep it Cleaner