Amanza Smith is discussing troubling period in her past. Selling Sunset reality star claims that two family members sexually molested her between ages of three and eleven in cover article for Mr. Warburton's online magazine.

"I put on very strong face, which comes from fact that from time I was three years old, I was sexually abused by somebody very close to me and you have to pretend like that's not happening," Smith says in interview.

Smith claims that as result of what occurred to her, she learned ""rotection" or "Survival skill" to assist her deal with difficult circumstances. She claims that she didn't fully comprehend how trauma from her early life had affected her until she had her own children.

"Until God gave me baby girl, it did not click," she says. "It hit me one day when my daughter was almost two and I was pregnant with my son. I imagined everything that happened to me happening to her. And it changed everything."

She continues, "Suddenly everything made sense: All of things I had struggled with in my teens, addiction in my 20s, ways I felt I failed, was not motivated and felt in some way different from my friends."

Published in The Daily National Courier, December, 23 2022

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