Billie Eilish outsmarts body-shaming sexist trolls with her brilliant choice of clothing.

America’s biggest female pop stars always have sex appeal. Whether it’s their decision or their manager’s, the most popular pop stars have always shown a bit of skin. However, 17-year-old singer Billie Eilish, best known for her hit songs “Bad Guy” and “Bellyache,” hasn’t buckled to industry pressure to show off her body to sell…

By

May 24, 2019

Photo credit: Array – Array

America’s biggest female pop stars always have sex appeal. Whether it’s their decision or their manager’s, the most popular pop stars have always shown a bit of skin.

However, 17-year-old singer Billie Eilish, best known for her hit songs “Bad Guy” and “Bellyache,” hasn’t buckled to industry pressure to show off her body to sell records.

In a recent 30-second ad for Calvin Klein, the singer shares why she only wears baggy clothing.

“I never want the world to know everything about me,” Eilish said in the ad. “I mean, that’s why I wear big, baggy clothes. Nobody can have an opinion because they haven’t seen what’s underneath, you know?”

“Nobody can be like, ‘Oh, she’s slim-thick, she’s not slim-thick, she’s got a flat ass, she’s got a fat ass. No one can say any of that, because they don’t know.”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JeMmUglv6wA

Billie at Kroq’s Almost Acoustic Christmas.

[rebelmouse-image 19561850 dam=”1″ original_size=”1024×789″ caption=”Photo by Kevin Winter / Getty Images” expand=1]

Billie at the 36th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards

[rebelmouse-image 19561851 dam=”1″ original_size=”699×1024″ caption=”Photo by Frazer Harrison / Getty Images” expand=1]

Billie on stage at Coachella performing with Khalid.

[rebelmouse-image 19561852 dam=”1″ original_size=”1024×776″ caption=”Photo by Kevin Winter / Getty Images” expand=1]

Billie’s decision to keep her body under wraps is empowering, especially in a world where young girls are bombarded with touched-up images of women’s bodies in magazines and on Instagram.

It’s also a strong stance to take as an artist. She’s not selling sex, she’s selling her talent.

Add to Google News

Tags

~popular_source-pageview lop

More for You

commercial jingles, we've only just begun, music

A song in a bank commercial was never destined to be a hit. Then the Carpenters saw the ad.

erling haaland, erling haaland world cup, emma kate willman, erling haaland norway, erling haaland doppelganger

American woman goes viral as World Cup fans say she is Norway’s Erling Haaland’s doppelgänger

reedling, literacy, adult learning, education

A woman feared the worst about her husband. Turns out his new passion was books.

world cup, soccer, england, barcelona, boston, fifa soccer, happy ending, missing person, funny story, humor, misunderstanding, viral, europe

Interpol went looking for a ‘missing’ World Cup fan. He was busy living his best life.

thomas jefferson, goodbye, name is haines, woman waving, us history

Thomas Jefferson coined a hip and funny phrase for abrupt goodbyes that still holds up today

Advertisement

Featured

All Featured Stories →

quiet, finger over lips, don't talk, keep it to yourself, silence

How to keep your mouth shut in conversations when you know you should really stay quiet

Tod Perry & Upworthy Staff

lynn margulis, lynn margulis symbiosis, biology, scientific breakthroughs, darwin, darwinism, women in science

Her groundbreaking theory on the origin of life was rejected 15 times. Then biology proved her right.

Heather Wake & Upworthy Staff

employee; employment law; work friends; work bestie; coworker boundaries; work boundaries; work life balance

Employment lawyer reveals the four text messages you should never send to a coworker

Jacalyn Wetzel & Upworthy Staff

Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, music history

In 1971, at a Disneyland gig, Linda Ronstadt unknowingly created one of rock’s biggest bands

Heather Wake