Ep.28 Toxic Pressures & Dark Secrets: How Original Fitspo Steph Claire Smith Took On The Modelling Industry
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Stephanie Miller, known online as Steph Claire Smith, is the COO and co-founder of Australian health and wellness app, Keep It Cleaner (KIC).
From Melbourne Australia, Steph started her career modelling at aged 7. After moving to America to pursue modelling as a career, Steph was exposed to the extremely toxic side of the industry, which led to disordered eating, negative body image and an unhealthy relationship with exercise. She was told to start smoking as it’s a good suppressant for feeling hungry, the best fruit to eat were apples as they fill you up the most, and if you need energy have a black coffee or a diet coke. Realising that living like this was massively impacting both her physical and mental health, Steph moved back to Australia, where she met her business partner Laura.
In 2015, Steph and Laura launched their first E-book ‘Keep It Cleaner’. They saw a gap in the market that was filled with a lot of fad diets, quick fixes and guilt around food. They wanted to take it back to basics and create a programme that makes you feel good and celebrate how a healthy lifestyle can be varied for everyone. Fast forward several years, and they’ve launched a KIC subscription platform filled with recipes and workouts, and have their own line of over 80 health food products stocked in supermarkets across Australia. Alongside her businesses, Steph also co-hosts the KIC podcast and in May 2021 gave birth to her beautiful son, Harvey.
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| 0:31.9 | I fully lost myself and lost touch with why I loved exercising, why I ate the way I did. So I started social |
| 0:40.0 | media pretty much around the time Instagram became a thing. The following just kind of organically |
| 0:45.5 | happened. Yeah. And it was so weird. I always had quite a balanced diet up until that point. |
| 0:50.9 | And then I just became super obsessive and it took years to break those habits. |
| 0:55.0 | My size suddenly was a real big issue. |
| 0:57.0 | In fact, my New York agency took me off their books publicly. |
| 1:01.1 | I was going in for measurements every Monday and Friday and they were basically telling |
| 1:05.6 | you things like if you get hungry, have an apple or a diet Coke. |
| 1:09.3 | Like it was ridiculous, the the messaging they even actually at one |
| 1:12.3 | point said that a lot of girls take up smoking to suppress hunger yeah it was it was quite a toxic year |
| 1:18.7 | but everyone tuning into the podcast now I'm about to, but I'm actually just going to be real first. |
| 1:31.7 | So if you could just wait a second. |
| 1:34.0 | Okay, finish my Be Real, so I'm back. |
| 1:36.0 | Hello. |
| 1:36.7 | Welcome to another episode of Working Hardly Working. |
| 1:39.5 | Today, 18-year-old me would be screaming, maybe even crying, maybe even a tantrum on the floor. I am talking |
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