WATCH: Jasmine Curtis Smith dispels anorexia rumors

Kapuso actress Jasmine Curtis Smith was emotional and honest in her interview with Cosmopolitan Philippines.

Jasmine started the video off by reading hate comments on her page where she's repeatedly body shamed and bashed for "looking" anorexic and unhealthy.

There she also opened up about when and how her insecurities started.

"I think the first time I really felt insecure about myself was when I was around 7 or 8 years old. I was still living here in the Philippines and in my little subdivision, I was being called 'butete.'

"Butete is tadpole in English for those who don't know because I was fairly small and skinny but I had a tummy. I felt like every time na tinatawag akong butete, it felt a little demeaning more than it was funny or cute.

"Since then I've always been conscious about my body shape and how I look, what I wear.

"And then further down the line, it was when I started to get back in the industry and start acting, that's when the insecurities started to magnify and become a bit more overwhelming than what it used to be when I was a small kid," she said.

Then in 2017, she admitted that she aimed to change the way her body looked.

"I lost a lot of weight and so many people on social media understood it in a different way. People thought I was anorexic and needed help, needed to seek doctor's advice and what not but I had already gone and done that.

"I had already consulted so many of my co-workers about how I look. Everyone would come back to me and say it's about how you feel. It just never stuck to me. Ayoko to just accept na it was just about how you felt.

"So I tried to gain more weight, I tried to eat more, I tried to just pack on the weight but it was becoming unhealthy also so it wasn't working."

It wasn't until 2018 Jasmine had a breakthrough when it comes to health, body image, self love, and more.

"It was only actually earlier this year that I felt like 'Maybe when you stop caring about what everyone says then the true progress will happen.' I stopped caring, I stopped listening, I wouldn't say 'stopped' completely caring, I still kinda care, it will always be there. It's more of shading that noise away para you can concentrate on yourself and loving yourself na totoo, hindi 'yung because everyone else says so."

Watch Jasmine's emotional interview with Cosmopolitan Philippines below: