English singer-songwriter Sam Smith is opening up about their longtime battle with the bulge.

The Grammy and Oscar winner , who uses they/them pronouns, revealed they went under the knife as a teenager during early struggles with their weight.

“My weight as a kid was the hardest thing for me in school, and weirdly the thing I probably got teased the most about,” Smith, 33, shared in the latest episode of the “Podcrushed” podcast .

“I had surgery on my chest when I was 13 years old because I had a growing chest,” they told host Penn Badgley . “There was all sorts of reasons why, but mainly that I was just getting so teased. I couldn’t go swimming in school, and getting changed in the locker room was hell. So I got liposuction when I was 13 years old.”

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