Steph Claire Smith

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If you continue to stick your butt out like that for attention –

and curve your back, you will have a pot belly for the rest of your life.

She said that to me when I was, like, 14.

And, like, so I already had this kind of thing about me.

I really loved attention.

And I've spoken about this before on the podcast, boys' attention particularly.

I felt like it validated me.

And so...

I think I didn't know I was doing that and I also don't think I was doing that.

I think I genuinely have a pretty curved back and I... And a very muscly bottom.

And I think... But I think what that did to me was it kind of just...

was like, oh, is that what people think, especially teachers, is that what people think of me, of that I'm doing?

And it's kind of like what they say about when your child is being like mean or rude or whatever, you label their behaviour but you don't label them as being, like as a mean person.

Like they might be being mean or have done a mean act but they're not mean.

For me, I think that like innately...

imprinted on me that like that's what's obvious to people that I care about and so I'm just going to care about it because it's the way I am or whatever.

Which is getting attention.

Right, which is getting attention.

And also for me it planted an insecurity in my stomach which like is the leanest part of my entire body and always has been genetically no matter what I've done.