Billie Eilish warns of extreme dieting: “It’s not a fun way to live”

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Billie Eilish has warned fans of the dangers of extreme dieting.Speaking on NPR’s Fresh Air podcast, the singer reflected on her previous body image issues and explained that she was at her least happy when trying to control her weight.“A couple of years back… I had been on this really intense kind of health journey and lost a lot of weight,” she explained. “I was thinner than I’d ever been, and stronger than ever.

But separately, I was extremely unhappy and unaware of how unhappy I was. It’s not a fun way to live.”Eilish has previously spoken about her body image, beginning in 2019 when she shared that a hip injury she suffered resulted in her suffering a bout of depression as a young teen.“It sent me down a hole,” she remembered at the time. “I went through a whole self-harming phase – we don’t have to go into it.

But the gist of it was, I felt like I deserved to be in pain.”In 2023 she further reflected on how she felt her body had been “gaslighting her” following the injury.“Going through my teenage years of hating myself and all that stupid shit,” the ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’ singer told the publication, “a lot of it came from my anger toward my body, and how mad I was at how much pain it’s caused me, and how much I’ve lost because of things that happened to it.”Eilish continued: “I felt like my body was gaslighting me for years.

I had to go through a process of being like, my body is actually me. And it’s not out to get me.”In 2021, Eilish hit back at an article that accused her of “selling out” during a Vogue cover shoot in which she debuted a new look.