Billie Eilish says men don’t face criticism about their bodies because ‘girls are nice’
Topics: Billie Eilish, Celebrity
Stewart Perrie
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Topics: Billie Eilish, Celebrity
Billie Eilish has pointed out the double standard in the A-list world when it comes to body image.
It's no secret that the world scrutinizes, comments on and deliberates about women's bodies.
If they have put on even the slightest bit of weight, there are headlines that pop up around the world.
Is she pregnant? Is she happy? Is she going to keep her partner?
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The tide is slowly turning away from all that nonsense, but it's still something that plagues female celebrities.
In an interview with Variety, Eilish describes being a woman as 'such a war': “Especially being a young woman in the public eye. It’s really unfair."
Billie is only 21 years old and yet she's been a well known singer for the best part of half a decade.
That means she has had to navigate her adolescence and her emergence into womanhood with the world's eyes watching her every move.
During her rise to fame, she would often wear baggy clothes, which was a big shift from her predecessors who donned tight outfits that accentuated their bodies.
Billie says this was deliberate.
“I wasn’t trying to have people not sexualize me,” she told Variety. “But I didn’t want people to have access to my body, even visually.
"I wasn’t strong enough and secure enough to show it."
She said she would have been devastated if people had made comments about her body when she was still trying to find herself.
But after being in the industry now for a while, she has noticed that men don't get the same type of scrutiny.
And she thinks she knows why.
“Nobody ever says a thing about men’s bodies,” she said.
“If you’re muscular, cool. If you’re not, cool. If you’re rail thin, cool. If you have a dad bod, cool. If you’re pudgy, love it!
"Everybody’s happy with it. You know why?
"Because girls are nice.
"They don’t give a f**k because we see people for who they are!”