Famous influencers Laura Henshaw and Steph Claire Smith almost tore their fitness empire apart when they had a bust-up during a luxury holiday together.
The Keep It Cleaner co-founders were enjoying a getaway with their respective husbands Dalton Graham and Josh Miller when a fight broke out between the long-time friends.
Their partners were forced to intervene and split up the conflict before their blue became nastier.
Laura, 30, recalled the brutal exchange during the Share My Mood podcast on Monday.
‘We were away for a couple of nights, and it was the second night, and [Steph and Josh] actually stayed in the room the whole time,’ Laura told hosts Will McMahon and Woody Whitelaw.
The podcaster kept mum about exactly what triggered the verbal exchange between her and Steph, 30, but said it was Dalton and Josh who convinced them to sit down and ‘be open with each other’.
She ensured the pair are still very much best friends and business partners after ‘really open, fantastic conversations’.
‘It was actually a really uncomfortable conversation [between Steph and I]. And we speak about it every now and then. We’ve actually just more recently had another really open, fantastic conversation,’ she explained.
‘We actually worked with a coach on that conversation, which was really helpful because I think when there is two of you, you don’t have anyone who’s objective because you’re in it all the time.’
Laura and Steph first met in the early 2010s when they were both modelling at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week not long after finishing high school.
The duo became fast friends as they worked in many of the same shows and spent much of their time backstage getting to know each other.
In 2015, the pair made a name for themselves as a dream team in fitness when they founded the health and wellness brand Keep It Cleaner, releasing an app, merch, a book and the KICPOD podcast.
Laura took on the role of the company’s CEO while Steph took the COO chair, launching their brand into phenomenal success over the course of nine years.
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The friends have made a multimillion-dollar empire out of their KIC brand and podcast, on which they regularly talk about body positivity and health.
They recently took an exciting step in their fitness and wellness business as they celebrated a new brand deal in January.
Laura and Steph posed in pink activewear for a photoshoot in Bondi to confirm their brand deal with popular activewear label STAX.
It is not the first mega brand deal the longtime friends have landed, with Laura having teamed up with brands such as Jaggad and Bumble in the past.