Reread Billie Eilish’s most powerful quotes about her body
Billie Eilish has become a driving force in the body positivity movement – and she has no plans to change her views anytime soon.
Eilish is known for often wearing oversized clothing on stage and previously opened up about choosing to keep her body out of the public eye. “No one can have an opinion because they haven’t seen what’s underneath,” she explained in an interview for A Calvin Klein advertisement from May 2019. ‘No one can say: ‘she is slim-fat’, ‘she is not slim-fat’, ‘she has a flat ass’, ‘she has a fat ass.’ No one can say anything about that because they don’t know.”
Eilish shared similar comments in her November 2023 cover story for Variety‘The Power of Women’ song. “I wasn’t trying to have people not sexualize me,” she explained of the early days of her career. “But I didn’t want people to have access to my body, even visually. I wasn’t strong enough and safe enough to show it. If I had shown it at the time, I would have been devastated if people had said anything.”
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