Billie Eilish tells body-shamers where to go

What Billie Eilish’s body looks like and how she chooses to clothe (or not clothe) it is none of our business. That’s the message the singer is sending after being body-shamed (again) for donning a pair of shorts and a tank top and daring to be spotted in public while wearing them. A photographer caught Eilish’s casual L.A. look on film and when the photos hit the internet, so did a tsunami of shallow criticism — none of which we’ll be posting here. That kind of discourse about women’s bodies is best left back in the previous century.And Eilish concurs. The five-time Grammy Award winner responded indirectly to the online onslaught by reposting a TikTok clip from beauty blogger Chizi Duru captioned “In case someone needed a reminder... Instagram has warped a lot of y’all into thinking NORMAL bodies are abnormal. NO. Not every black girl has a shelf behind them. Stomach pudge is completely normal. Most boobs SAGGGG.”[video_embed id='1987727']RELATED: Jessie Reyez says her connection with Billie Eilish is a 'rare' thing[/video_embed]This isn’t the first and only time Eilish has had to confront her superficial detractors. Late last spring she launched a short film called Not My Responsibility in which she slowly undressed, asking viewers, “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,” she says.“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,” she continued. “Why make assumptions about people based on their size?” Right before the release of the film, Eilish had been attacked online for posting photos of herself in a swimsuit (one has to wonder: are these the same people who criticize her for wearing baggy Chanel layers to the Oscars?). “I can’t win,” said Eilish in an interview with Dazed.She can, however, refuse to give in to the body-shaming noise — which is exactly what she did in her latest Instagram post, hinting at where body-shaming and body-shamers belong.

 

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do you really wanna go back in time?

A post shared by BILLIE EILISH (@billieeilish) on Oct 13, 2020 at 7:28pm PDT

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