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Billie Eilish Opens Up About Being Body Shamed Over a Bathing Suit Video


Billie Eilish is almost as well known for her baggy, oversized fashion aesthetic as she is for her poignant and soulful (not to mention, Grammy Award-winning) music. Back in 2019, she explained to Vogue Australia that her style is extremely intentional and “gives nobody the opportunity to judge what my body looks like.”

That doesn’t mean the 18-year-old artist is immune to those who think they are allowed to express their opinions about her body. In a new interview with Dazed, Eilish opened up about how she felt when people on the internet criticized her decision to post a video of herself in a bathing suit. This past January, Eilish posted a gallery to her Instagram that included a short clip of the singer rinsing her hair in an outdoor shower and you can see the straps of her suit. Yes, that’s literally all it showed but that was enough to bring out the haters and the body shamers.

“It was trending,” Eilish told the publication. “There were comments like, ‘I don’t like her anymore because as soon as she turns 18 she’s a whore.’ Like, dude. I can’t win. I can-not win.” The singer also recalled a time last year when she was photographed wearing a tank top. “I saw comments like, ‘How dare she talk about not wanting to be sexualized and wear this?!’” she said.

In the interview, Eilish got even more candid, admitting she has had a complicated relationship with her own body image. “There was a point last year where I was naked and I didn’t recognize my body ’cos I hadn’t seen it in a while,” she said. “I would see it sometimes and be like, ‘Whose body is that?’” However, she added that she’s “a bit more OK with it” right now.

Unfortunately, the young musical genius has needed to address the prevalent issue of internet body-shaming multiple times in her relatively short career. During her Where Do We Go? World Tour, the pop star addressed the idea of people judging her—or anyone’s—body at length.

“You have opinions about my opinions, about my music, about my clothes, about my body,” she reportedly said over a video of herself undressing, per Buzzfeed. “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. So while I feel your stares, your disapproval, or your sigh of relief, if I lived by them, I’d never be able to move.”

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Like so many of us, Eilish is an ever-evolving person both musically and otherwise. “If I wore a dress to something, I would be hated for it,” she said during her Dazed photoshoot. “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.”

Amen to that.



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Billie Eilish Showed Off Her Body on Tour for an Important Reason


Billie Eilish’s oversized clothing has become one of her staples, and she’s said multiple times there’s a reason behind it. “I never want the world to know everything about me,” she explained in a 2019 Calvin Klein campaign. “I mean, that’s why I wear big baggy clothes: Nobody can have an opinion, because they haven’t seen what’s underneath.” In a June 2019 interview with Vogue Australia, she said her style “gives nobody the opportunity to judge what [her] body looks like.”

But in a video interlude for her Where Do We Go? World Tour, which kicked off March 9 in Miami, the pop star addressed exactly that: the idea of people judging her—or anyone’s—body. In the clip, Eilish is seen slowly undressing as she gives a powerful message about body-shaming. Per BuzzFeed, fans who attended the show say this was Eilish’s full speech:

“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, and nothing I do goes unseen. So while I feel your stares, your disapproval, or your sigh of relief, if I lived by them, I’d never be able to move.

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 the layers, I am 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 what they’re worth. If I wear more, 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?”

Watch a (somewhat shaky) fan video of the interlude—courtesy of the Twitter account Eilish Tour News—for yourself, below:

Fans flooded to Twitter to praise Billie Eilish for taking a stand against body-shaming. “Billie is using her tour as a platform to send a positive statement to her fans by using an interlude about how people’s opinions on her body aren’t her responsibility is so powerful,” one fan tweeted. “I love this women so much.”

See, below, just a few reactions from fans:

Eilish hasn’t commented on the response to the interlude yet, but stay tuned.



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Listen To Billie Eilish's Spooky New James Bond Theme Song


Update (February 14): Billie Eilish released her new James Bond theme song, No Time To Die, on Thursday, February 13. In true Eilish fashion, it’s smoky and spooky, and a little mournful. Eilish is by far the youngest person to write or perform a Bond theme song—the new movie, starring Daniel Craig as Bond for the fifth and last time, will hit theaters in the US on April 10.

Until then, we’ll keep Billie on repeat.

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Billie Eilish has joined one of the most exclusive musical clubs in the world.

What do Louis Armstrong, Madonna, Adele, Paul McCartney, Shirley Bassey, Duran Duran, and Tina Turner have in common? They’ve all performed Bond songs: the iconic singles that traditionally open James Bond movies. And now Eilish, who recently turned 18, will add one to the catalog.

She’s by far the youngest person to write and sing a Bond theme, and definitely the only one who has the middle name Pirate. She and her brother and longtime collaborator, Finneas, wrote the theme song together for the 25th Bond movie, No Time to Die, which is due out April 8.

“It feels crazy to be a part of this in every way,” Eilish said in a statement, adding that the opportunity is “a huge honor.”

“James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist,” she said. “I’m still in shock.”

No Time To Die disappointed some fans when it was announced that, despite rumors, for the 25th time, 007 would be played by a male actor (Daniel Craig, in his fifth go-round as the vodka-swilling MI6 agent). But there will be feminist influences on this film that go beyond the surface-level girl-power of hot women holding guns: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the Fleabag genius, is one of four credited cowriters.



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Oscars 2020: Billie Eilish’s Performance of ‘Yesterday’ Was Astonishing


Billie Eilish gave a show-stopping, heartbreaking performance of the Beatles song “Yesterday” during the “In Memoriam” segment at the Oscars 2020.

Eilish, who continues to be, improbably, a teenager, gave a rendition of the classic 1965 song that showed off her smoky voice and emotional range as a performer.

Just two weeks after sweeping the Grammys—she was the second person to ever win the “Big Four” categories and the youngest-ever winner of Album of the Year and Record of the Year—the 18-year-old loaned her surreal talent to a segment of the awards show that’s painfully anticipated every year. The Oscars 2020 “In Memoriam” segment was particularly poignant in light of the recent deaths of Kobe Bryant and Kirk Douglas. The performance also highlighted the careers of director Agnes Varda and actress and singer Doris Day.

Eilish—who has to be the first teen girl pop star to have the Google autocomplete “…cries black tears?”—performed with her brother and collaborator, Finneas O’Connell, who accompanied her on piano. Earlier that day, she shared that the song has a special significance for her. “Honored to be performing during the In memoriam segment for the Oscars tonight covering a song I’ve always loved,” she wrote in an Instagram Story on Sunday, just hours before the awards show.

Eilish drew eyes (sans black tears) throughout the awards show, when—true to her Gen-Z status—she made instantly meme-able facial expressions during both Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudoph’s comedy musical number, and during Eminem’s performance of “Lose Yourself.” (Haters, please remember we’re talking about someone who is not yet of legal drinking age here.) But her “Yesterday” performance proved what her fans already know—whether you love her or feel strangely reminded of your mortality by her—she’s talented, and she’s here to stay.

Jenny Singer is a staff writer at Glamour. You can follow her pop culture rants on Twitter.





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Billie Eilish Style: Best Looks


An obsession with Billie Eilish and her style is practically required if you identify as Generation Z. But even if you’re don’t, there’s much to appreciate. The 18-year pop star was arguably the year’s biggest breakout musician—at least according to Google, who said Eilish was its top-trending pop star of 2019—and is recognizable not only for her signature sound, but also for her signature style characterized by bold, drastically oversized pieces that seems to meld classic hip-hop style with goth and skater influences. In May 2019, Eilish revealed in a Calvin Klein campaign that everything she puts on is deliberate; a method to deflect judgement of her body. “I never want the world to know everything about me,” she said. “I mean, that’s why I wear big, baggy clothes. Nobody can have an opinion because they haven’t seen what’s underneath. Nobody can be like, ‘Oh, she’s slim-thick, she’s not slim-thick, she’s got a flat ass, she’s got a fat ass. No one can say any of that because they don’t know.”

Eilish turned 18 in December 2019, an age she admits might be the catalyst for trying something new as far as her style goes. “I’m gonna be a woman. I wanna show my body,” Eilish told Elle magazine in October 2019. “What if I wanna make a video where I wanna look desirable? Not a porno! But I know it would be a huge thing. I know people will say, ‘I’ve lost all respect for her.’”

Until then, though, take a look at Billie Eilish and her trademark approach to style in the gallery below—and shop key pieces inspired by her looks.

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Billie Razors Review: The Subscription Is Worth It


For years my shaving routine went a little something like this: hop in the shower, begrudgingly run a cheap disposable razor over my legs, nick myself two or three times, rinse, and repeat. Because my hair is so thick and long, I’d have to shave frequently, and it always felt like a time suck.

Eventually I turned to waxing, but that was far from ideal too. It hurts, you have to go a whole week with hairy legs before your appointment, and it’s more expensive. But such was life for me until I recently moved apartments, and on top of having to find a convenient drugstore and new go-to delivery spot, I also realized it meant I needed to find a new waxer I could trust. (If you’ve ever gotten a wax, you know it’s as intimate—maybe even more so—as finding a therapist you jive with.)

Not sure where to even begin, I decided it’d just be easier to travel for a good wax. But then something caught my eye on the way to my appointment: A pink and purple sign that said, “Hi, Hello. We’re Billie.”

I’d heard a lot about Billie, the female-first subscription-based shave brand that made cute, affordable razors and body products, but I’d never thought of giving it a try until then. I made a split decision to cancel my appointment and ordered the $9 Billie Starter Kit instead. It included a Billie handle in millennial pink (although the brand offers six colors including lime green and navy blue), a magnetic holder, and two five-blade razor cartridges. I added in a bottle of its The Shave Cream for an additional $8.

The kit came in the mail, packaged in a highly Instagrammable box. Of course, as a millennial, I’m a sucker for great branding. But Billie goes beyond just looking aesthetically pleasing. Its cheery colors and pro-body hair messaging makes the thought of shaving feel like less of a chore. Like Glossier makes a nightly skin care routine something to look forward to, Billie sparks joy in the mundane task of shaving your legs (or whatever else you want gone).

Beside the color, the first thing I noticed about the razor was its matte-rubber core handle, which makes it easy to grip. I’m a clumsy person and it’s not unusual for me to leave the shower with nicks and bruises, so this was much-appreciated touch. (Apparently, industrial designers helped weigh in on the design. Who knew?) The blades are also incredible. They’re probably the sharpest blade I’ve ever encountered outside a men’s razor, but they go so smoothly over my skin. I think a lot of that also had to do with the shaving cream, made with aloe vera, sage, shea butter, and grapefruit. Not only does the scent smell like a fancy spa, it helps the razor glide softly over your skin, leaving no trace of razor burn or small cuts behind. Your basic body wash could never.



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