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Published 15:04 05 Jun 2020 GMT
Billie Eilish has opened up about the fact that she still has "huge issues" with her body image, though she is slowly starting to gain body acceptance.
In a recent interview with GQ magazine, the Bad Guy singer spoke about the video interlude in her Where Do We Go? tour, which saw her strip down to her bra while standing in a rising black liquid. "I definitely didn't want it to come off as, 'Oh, now I am 18 now I like my body.' I still have huge issues with my own body," she explained.
''Sometimes I dress like a boy. Sometimes I dress like a swaggy girl. And sometimes I feel trapped by this persona that I have created, because sometimes I think people view me not as a woman."
''That tour video was about all that. It is me saying: look, there is a body underneath these clothes and you don't get to see it. Isn't that a shame? But my body is mine and yours is yours. Our own bodies are kind of the only real things which are truly ours. I get to see it and get to show it when I want to," she continued.
In Not My Responsibility, the short film that debuted during her Where Do We Go? world tour, Eilish can be seen wearing a black hoodie that she slowly starts to remove, until she is standing in just her bra.
The Grammy-award-winner narrates: "Do you know me? Do you really know me? You have opinions about my opinions about my music, about my clothes, about my body. 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."
Watch the short film below:
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"Nothing I do goes unseen, so while I feel your stares, your disapproval, or your sigh of relief, 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?
If I wear what is comfortable, I am not a woman. If I shed layers, I’m a slut. Though you’ve never seen my body, you still judge it and judge me for it. Why?
You make assumptions about people based on their size. We decide who they are, we decide what they’re worth. If I wear more, if I wear less, who decides what that makes me, what that means? Is my value based only on your perception, or is your opinion of me not my responsibility?"
