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Posted: 2019-03-16T00:15:27Z | Updated: 2019-03-16T00:15:27Z

Sam Smith delved deep into personal issues as the inaugural guest on I Weigh movement founder Jameela Jamils new Instagram interview series , shedding new insight into his gender identity and struggles with self-image.

In the interview, released Friday , Smith said that hearing the stories of other nonconforming individuals helped him to identify as genderqueer and nonbinary.

When I saw the nonbinary, genderqueer, and I read into it, and I heard these people speaking, I was like, Fuck, that is me, the singer-songwriter said. Nonbinary, genderqueer is that you do not identify in a gender you are just you.

You are a mixture of all different things. You are your own special creation, he continued. Thats how I take it: Im not male or female. I think I float somewhere in between. Its all on the spectrum.

A few months ago, I sat down with @jameelajamil and spoke with her for her incredible @_iweigh movement. I know this sounds dramatic but this interview completely changed my life. Watch in full on my IGTV now (please be kind haha) xx pic.twitter.com/IMDLSUayso

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A few months ago, I sat down with @jameelajamil and spoke with her for her incredible @_iweigh movement. I know this sounds dramatic but this interview completely changed my life. Watch in full on my IGTV now (please be kind haha) xx pic.twitter.com/IMDLSUayso

Sam Smith (@samsmith) March 15, 2019

Smith offered similar sentiments in an October 2017 interview with The Sunday Times , in which he announced, I feel just as much woman as I am man. In both the 2017 and 2019 interviews, he did not specify a change in pronouns.

The four-time Grammy winner has become increasingly vocal about his battle with body image. Though Smith lost a reported 50 pounds before the release of his 2017 album, The Thrill of It All, he still needs to fight the fuck back against his insecurities.

This was the case in February when he posted a shirtless photo of himself on Instagram to celebrate my body as it is.

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