Billie Eilish has perfect response to criticism after ‘shedding layers’ of clothes onstage

Billie Eilish has always been bold with her sartorial choices - which have been marked by wearing loose-fitting clothing - in a bid to not be judged for her appearance. However, people have continued to objectify her nonetheless.

In order to hit back at her critics, the 18-year-old added some visuals of her undressing on the first night of her tour, which has since been postponed following the COVID-19 pandemic. After a fan shared the clip to Twitter, the songstress was subject to more trolling, unsurprisingly.

Watch the clip below: 

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"Some people hate what I wear, some people praise it. Some people use it to shame others, some people use it to shame me. But I feel you watching, always. And nothing I do goes unseen," Eilish can be heard saying.

"So while I feel your stares, your disapproval or your sighs of relief, if I lived by them, I’d never be able to move," she continues. "Would you like me to be smaller? Weaker? Softer? Taller? Would you like me to be quiet? Do my shoulders provoke you? Does my chest? Am I my stomach? My hips? The body I was born with, is it not what you wanted?"

She finishes by asking those who have "made assumptions about people based on their size" whether her "value" is "based only on your perception? Or is your opinion of me not my responsibility?"

Now, discussing the moment in a new interview with Dazed, she corroborated:

"If I wore a dress to something, I would be hated for it. People would be like, ‘You’ve changed, how dare you do what you’ve always rebelled against?’ I’m like, ‘I’m not rebelling against anything, really.’ I can’t stress it enough. I’m just wearing what I wanna wear.

If there’s a day when I’m like, ‘You know what, I feel comfortable with my belly right now, and I wanna show my belly,’ I should be allowed to do that."