Billie Eilish bashes being sexualized: ‘I’ve had big boobs since I was 9 years old’
nypost.comWhat was I made for?In a new interview for Variety’s The Power of Women issue, the 21-year-old singer, who just scored Record of the Year and Song of the Year nominations for the “Barbie” behemoth “What Was I Made For?”, opened up about the heavy scrutiny her body has received over the past few years.“I have big boobs,” Eilish declared. “I’ve had big boobs since I was nine years old, and that’s just the way I am.
That’s how I look. You wear something that’s at all revealing, and everyone’s like, ‘Oh, but you didn’t want people to sexualize you?’ You can suck my ass!
I’m literally a being that is sexual sometimes. Fuck you!”When Eilish burst onto the music scene at just 14 years old with her debut single “Ocean Eyes,” and three years later with her debut album “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”, she almost entirely rocked a wardrobe of over-sized and extremely baggy clothes.The Grammy winner admits that she often dresses in clothes that don’t show off her body, in order to hide it from the world and the judgement that comes from being in the public eye. “I wasn’t trying to have people not sexualize me,” she explained. “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. If I had shown it at that time, I would have been completely devastated if people had said anything.
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