Being an adolescent is difficult sufficient. However being an adolescent and attempting to determine how you are feeling about your physique whereas the entire world is watching (and commenting) seems like a nightmare. That, although, is principally the gauntlet Billie Eilish stated she needed to run early in her profession, when any rando with a keyboard felt emboldened to say the very first thing that popped into their head concerning the singer’s determine.
“I’ve huge boobs. I’ve had huge boobs since I used to be 9 years previous, and that’s simply the way in which I’m. That’s how I look,” she advised Selection journal in an interview during which Eilish defined that she was by no means attempting to “have individuals not sexualize me.” She did, nevertheless, till not too long ago limit entry to her physique by carrying her signature saggy outfits as a result of on the uncommon events when she did present some pores and skin — corresponding to carrying a tank high in public when she was 16 — it set off a media frenzy and undesirable consideration. “You put on one thing that’s in any respect revealing, and everybody’s like, ‘Oh, however you didn’t need individuals to sexualize you?,’” she recalled considering. “You may suck my a–! I’m actually a being that’s sexual generally. F–okay you!”
She did, nevertheless, admit that she had no downside when her pal Lil Yachty rapped “She had huge t–s like Billie Eilish, however she couldn’t sing,” on Drake’s “One other Late Night time.” Requested if she was offended by the road, Eilish stated by no means. “I believe it’s enjoyable!” she stated of the tune from Drizzy’s new For All of the Canine album. “I’m flattered! Yachty is my pal. Drake is my pal. It’s a joke. I do have huge t–s. I adore it.”
Elsewhere within the chat, Eilish goes into what the author describes as a “good old style rant” concerning the double-standard utilized to ladies in music. “No person ever says a factor about males’s our bodies. In the event you’re muscular, cool. In the event you’re not, cool. In the event you’re rail skinny, cool. When you’ve got a dad bod, cool. In the event you’re pudgy, adore it!” she stated. “All people’s proud of it. You understand why? As a result of ladies are good. They don’t give a f–okay as a result of we see individuals for who they’re!”
The Energy of Girls interview additionally touches on Eilish’s Oscar-buzz Barbie tune, “What Was I Made For?,” her tenuous relationship with femininity/womanhood and her ardent assist for a plant-based weight-reduction plan.
