Billie Eilish reflected on ‘hating herself’ as she struggled with body confidence issues as a teenager and admitted she had ‘anger’ towards her body in a candid video interview
Billie Eilish reflected on ‘hating herself’ as she struggled with body confidence issues as a teenager, detailing her “anger towards by body”.
The Bad Guy hitmaker, 21, described feeling like her body was “gaslighting” herself as she fronted the first ever video cover of Vogue magazine.
She discussed the “pain” as she finally began learning to love herself and her body, joining several climate activists for the outlet’s video shoot.
“Going through my teenage years of hating myself and all that stupid s**t,” Billie detailed. “A lot of it came from my anger towards my body.
“How mad I was at how much pain it’s caused me, and what I’ve lost because of things that happened to it. I felt like my body was gaslighting me for years.”
She explained: “I had to go through a process of being like, my body is actually me. And it’s not out to get me.”
Last year, Billie had admitted not being happy with her appearance, as she candidly said: “I see people online, looking like I’ve never looked.”
She told The Guardian: “And immediately I am like, ‘oh my God, how do they look like that?’.
“I know the ins and outs of this industry, and what people actually use in photos, and I actually know what looks real can be fake.
“Yet I still see it and go, ‘oh God, that makes me feel really bad’. And I mean, I’m very confident in who I am, and I’m very happy with my life.… I’m obviously not happy with my body but who is?”
It comes after Billie’s brother Finneas O’Connell spoke out to defend her relationship with new boyfriend Jesse Rutherford.
She came under fire for the 10-year age gap with 31-year-old Jesse.
And now her older brother Finneas, 25, has responded to a video made by a TikTok troll who criticised his sister’s relationship.
“Your sister’s dating a 31-year-old man and your music is s***ty,” the TikTok user wrote.
Finneas responded: “I want my sister to be happy and safe.