in an interview with Sunday Times On Sunday, June 19, the American singer addressed the complicated relationship she has had with her body since she was 11 years old.
Singer Billie Eilish has 11 billion views on YouTube, 47 million monthly listeners on Spotify, 44 million on TikTok and 103 million on Instagram. All just 20 years old. But the crown is fragile, as he tells The Sunday Times Sunday, June 19, 2022. The twenty-one-year-old talks about the price of fame, the influence of hyper-media, his identity crisis and the difficulties of showing up in public, which he “hated” since childhood.
Video: Billie Eilish, “No Time to Die”
Loose clothes with a pink corset
When Billie Eilish burst onto the scene at just 13 years old, not only did her angelic voice stand out, but so did her very punk look. Behind only her baggy clothes and fluorescent green, a young woman with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome talks about her fear of judgment and her insecurities about her body. The latter is also the cause of a number of depressions.
Trying to break free from her mental prison and being labeled as ‘crazy’, the young woman decides to take the bull by the horns and appears on the cover of May 2021 in a pink corset. Vogue UK. “This is the funnest thing I’ve ever done,” he said Sunday Times. In six minutes, the photo becomes the fastest post on Instagram, reaching one million likes.
Unfortunately, praise also gives way to criticism. “Wearing small clothes makes me feel unloved, unsexy or beautiful. Then people shame you for not being “feminine” enough. Then you wear something more revealing and they say, And to conclude. “What the hell do you want? It’s a crazy world for women.”
Silent impostor syndrome
Later, the singer considers that it was this sartorial search to silence her impostor syndrome. “I pretended I was famous,” she admits. I tried to convince myself that I deserved it (…) I had to find some way to make sense of it all.
Today, her hair is dyed black, wrapped in a messy bun. The time of the interview Sunday TimesHe wears a faded plate and a black tracksuit. The twenty-year-old woman has not come to terms with her body, but has chosen a less controversial and, above all, more honest relationship. “I like that my body belongs to me and that it accompanies me wherever I go,” she sums up. I kind of consider my body my friend, my naughty friend.”
Source: Le Figaro
