Taking a stand! Billie Eilish has grow to be a driving power within the body positivity motion — and he or she isn’t about to alter her views any time quickly.
The five-time Grammy winner is thought for dressing in outsized clothes, which has introduced her an excellent quantity of assist and hate all through her whirlwind rise to the highest of the charts. In Might 2019, Eilish opened up about her choice to maintain her physique out of the general public eye. “No person can have an opinion as a result of they haven’t seen what’s beneath,” she defined in an interview for a Calvin Klein advert. “No person could be like, ‘she’s slim-thick,’ ‘she’s not slim-thick,’ ‘she’s acquired a flat ass,’ ‘she’s acquired a fats ass.’ Nobody can say any of that as a result of they don’t know.”
Eilish’s robust views have typically made headlines, however the “No Time to Die” singer admitted to feeling misunderstood by the media. “Everybody sees it as, ‘She’s saying no to being sexualized,’ and, ‘She’s saying no to being the stereotypical feminine,” she told Pharrell Williams in an August 2019 conversation for V magazine, explaining that her decisions don’t have anything to do with the best way different girls wish to gown. “I don’t like that there’s this bizarre new world of supporting me by shaming those that [may not] wish to [dress like me].”
Whereas the “Bury a Pal” songstress feels extra comfy with the safety that her signature look brings her proper now, she reserved the right to change her tune throughout an April 2020 interview with Dazed journal. After sharing a photograph of herself in a showering swimsuit whereas on trip, Eilish acknowledged the double customary that she’s confronted due to her stance on physique picture.
“There have been feedback like, ‘I don’t like her anymore as a result of as quickly as she turns 18 she’s a whore.’ Like, dude. I can’t win,” she stated on the time. “If I wore a gown to one thing, I might be hated for it. Folks can be like, ‘You’ve modified, how dare you do what you’ve all the time rebelled in opposition to?’ I’m like, ‘I’m not rebelling in opposition to something, actually.’ … If there’s a day after I’m like, ‘You recognize what, I really feel comfy with my stomach proper now and I wanna present my stomach,’ I must be allowed to try this.”
Scroll all the way down to revisit extra of Eilish’s most empowering quotes about self-image.
