Jorja Smith: Stormzy told me to ignore the trolls after body-shamers claimed I looked pregnant

Jorja Smith has opened up about how fellow musician Stormzy taught her to shrug off negative messages from social media trolls.

Speaking to model and activist Adwoa Aboah in the June issue of ELLE UK, the singer revealed that she no longer reads comments from her followers after receiving body-shaming messages claiming that she looks “pregnant.”

“I don’t really read the comments,” she told Aboah. “One thing that used to happen was, because my tummy’s not flat, if I wear tight things, it sticks out a bit.

“People comment: ‘She looks pregnant.’ People think that, because I have loads of followers, I don’t see things online.

“I’m training hard in the gym for someone to say, ‘You look pregnant’. So I don’t read them. When I met Stormzy, he said ‘If you like it that’s all that matters’.”

Smith collaborated with Stormzy on the 2018 track Let Me Down.

The musician, who took home the Best Female Solo Artist trophy at the BRIT Awards earlier this year, also spoke about the impact of fame, revealing that her family and friends keep her grounded when things get “too much.”

“It was a big learning curve,” she said of her rise to fame. “I’m not a f****** robot. I tried, and I can’t do it.

“Last year it was too much – interviewers asking me the same things, people being like: “You’re so amazing.” I just wanted a bit of normality, but that’s why I’m lucky with my family and friends.

“You need honest, real people around you that have their own problems, and want to talk to you about them and not just about what you’re doing all the time.”

The June issue of ELLE UK is one sale from Thursday May 2 2019.