Billie Eilish has opened up on her "horrible" relationship with her body when she was younger. The pop sensation shot to fame after her chart-topping single Bad Guy went viral in 2019. And the 19-year-old later became known for her cool style and love for baggy clothes - but she's revealed there is a deeper meaning behind it.
The star says she wears her iconic baggy outfits to hide her body, admitting she's had an emotional journey with her physical appearance since a young age. Last year, rare paparazzi snaps of the teenager wearing a vest top and shorts emerged online, and the images were criticised by body shamers who attacked her in comments.
Thankfully, Billie is in a better place with her body, and opening up about that moment the photos emerged, she spoke about taking weight loss pills at 12-years-old.
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Speaking to Vanity Fair about her troubled past, Billie said: "I think that the people around me were more worried about it than I was, because the reason I used to cut myself was because of my body. To be quite honest with you, I only started wearing baggy clothes because of my body.
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"I was really, really glad though, mainly, that I'm in this place in my life, because if that had happened three years ago, when I was in the midst of my horrible body relationship – or dancing a ton, five years ago, I wasn't really eating. I was, like, starving myself."
The songstress reposted the clip to her 67 million followers after it was originally uploaded to TikTok.
In the clip, Chizi asks: "Can we normalize normal bodies? Ya'll got to start normalising real bodies, ok? Not everyone has a wagon behind them, ok? Guts are normal. They're normal. Boobs sag, especially after breastfeeding. Instagram isn't real."
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Billie often wears outfits from Gucci, Burberry and Louis Vuitton but she rarely wears anything that showed her curves as much as the viral pics did.
When starring in a Calvin Klein advert, she said: "I never want the world to know everything about me. I mean, that’s why I wear big baggy clothes. Nobody can have an opinion because they haven’t seen what’s underneath, you know?
"Nobody can be like 'oh she’s slim-thick, she’s not slim-thick, she got a flat ass, she got a fat ass.' Nobody can say any of that because they don’t know."
