Billie Eilish addresses body-shaming, struggles with self-image

Jan. 25 (UPI) — Billie Eilish is sharing her longtime struggles with self-image.

The 19-year-frail singer-songwriter talked about her experiences with body-shaming and her “rotten” relationship along with her body in the March scenario of Arrogance Sparkling.

Eilish is legendary for her neon green hair and for wearing oversized attire. She became once seen wearing a tank high in a uncommon paparazzi characterize in October, sparking each definite and detrimental feedback about her appears on-line.

Eilish addressed the characterize in the Arrogance Sparkling interview and talked about how her self-image affects her interior most model.

“I remark that the cause the of us spherical me had been more haunted about it than I became once, attributable to the cause I used to gash myself became once thanks to my body,” she said. “To be rather correct with you, I only started wearing dishevelled attire thanks to my body.”

Eilish said she is in a better space than she became once up to now and became once ready to weather the hateful feedback on-line.

“I became once in point of fact, in point of fact gay though, mainly, that I’m in this space in my life, attributable to if that had took space three years ago, after I became once in the midst of my rotten body relationship — or dancing a ton, five years ago, I wasn’t in point of fact fascinating. I became once, like, starving myself,” the star shared.

“I endure in mind taking a tablet that told me that it would have me plunge pounds and it only made me pee the bed — after I became once 12. It’s correct crazy. I will be able to’t even imagine, like I — wow,” she said. “Yeah. I belief that I could presumably perchance be the simply one coping with hatred for my body, nonetheless I remark the get furthermore hates my body. In disclose that is enormous.”

In May perhaps perhaps well also, Eilish known as out body shamers in the short movie “Not My Responsibility.” Within the video, Eilish challenges body shamers as she undresses and sinks into a pool of dark liquid.

“Some of us abominate what I wear, some of us reward it, some of us yell it to disgrace others, some of us yell it to disgrace me, nonetheless I in point of fact feel you observing,” the singer says. “Nothing I assign goes unseen.”

“If I wear what’s gay, I am no longer a girl. If I shed the layers, I’m a slut. Though which you can need under no circumstances seen my body, you serene remark it and remark me for it. Why?” she questions.

Eilish will give a candid witness into her life in the drawing close documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Runt Blurry, which premieres Feb. 26 on Apple TV+.

Eilish released her debut studio album, When We All Drop Asleep, The keep Attain We Toddle?, in 2019. She released the original song “Lo Vas A Olvidar” with Rosalía final week for the HBO series Euphoria.