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Billie Eilish says celebrities who get plastic surgery and 'deny it' make her 'literally furious'

Aug 5, 2021, 22:30 IST
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Billie Eilish at her "Happier Than Ever" release party on July 29, 2021. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Spotify
  • Billie Eilish discussed body image and plastic surgery in a recent interview with The Guardian.
  • She said she thinks it's "completely fine to get work done" as long the person is honest about it.
  • But she said it makes her "furious" when stars "deny it and say, 'Oh, I got this all on my own.'"
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Billie Eilish called out fellow stars who get plastic surgery and "deny it" in a recent interview with The Guardian.

The 19-year-old Grammy winner was asked to explain "OverHeated," the 10th track on her new album, "Happier Than Ever."

In the song's bridge, Eilish addresses her body-shamers and says she won't "redesign" herself to fit an arbitrary ideal: "All these other inanimate b----es, it's none of my business / But don't you get sick of posin' for pictures / With that plastic body?"

"'OverHeated' applies to all the people who promote unattainable body standards," she told The Guardian. "It's completely fine to get work done - do this, do that, do what makes you feel happy. It's just when you deny it and say, 'Oh, I got this all on my own, and if you just tried harder, you could get it.'"

"That makes me literally furious," she added. "It is so bad for young women - and boys, too - to see that."

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Eilish went on to explain how social media can stoke insecurities, especially if you're unsure whose appearance is natural.

"I see people online, looking like I've never looked," she said. "And immediately I am like, oh my God, how do they look like that? I know the ins and outs of this industry, and what people actually use in photos, and I actually know what looks real can be fake. Yet I still see it and go, oh God, that makes me feel really bad."

"And I mean, I'm very confident in who I am, and I'm very happy with my life," she continued. "I'm obviously not happy with my body, but who is?"

Much of Eilish's new album tackles sexism and double standards, particularly for a woman in the spotlight. "OverHeated" is preceded by "Not My Responsibility," a spoken-word interlude about Eilish's experience with body negativity and slut-shaming.

Eilish has said she had a "horrible body relationship" when she was younger and adopted her signature baggy wardrobe because she "hated" her body and didn't want anyone to comment on it.

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"When I'm on stage, I have to disassociate from the ideas I have of my body," Eilish said. "Especially because I wear clothes that are bigger and easier to move in without showing everything - they can be really unflattering. In pictures, they look like I don't even know what. I just completely separate the two."

"Because I have such a terrible relationship with my body, like you would not believe, so I just have to disassociate," she continued. "Then you get a paparazzi picture taken when you were running to the door and had just put anything on, and didn't know the picture's being taken, and you just look how you look, and everyone's like, 'Fat!'"

"OverHeated" appears to directly address the incident in question, when Eilish was photographed wearing a tank top and shorts last year.

"I don't really even know how it happened / I started watching them photographing," she sings in the first verse, later adding: "Is it news? News to who? That I really look just like the rest of you."

For the rest of the details you might have missed in "Happier Than Ever," read our full breakdown of the album here.

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