a conversation with Page Six, Stodden said that people like Elliot Page and Sam Smith being publicly trans and nonbinary, respectively, helped them to come to terms with their own identity.“For the longest time I would sit in the shadows and watch brave souls like Elliot Page, Sam Smith and other mainstream celebrities come out,” they told the site. “I knew I felt the same as them, but I was afraid I would be ignored because I present as high-femme nonbinary.”It wasn’t only Page and Smith who inspired Stodden to come out, though.