Kat Dennings says she 'looked exactly like' Billie Eilish at her age, tells body-shamers to 'f--- right off'

• Kat Dennings has defended Billie Eilish against body-shaming trolls after news outlets published new photographs of the singer wearing a tank top and shorts.
• On Wednesday night, Dennings tweeted: "Anyone reacting to @billieeilish having a normal body has to take a hard look at themselves. As someone who looked exactly like that at her age, it'd be nice for this unhealthy nonsense to f--- right off. She's beautiful and normal goodbye!"
• The photographs of Eilish were first published by the Daily Mail and were widely circulated by trolls with crude comments about the teenager's body.

Kat Dennings has defended Billie Eilish against body-shaming trolls after news outlets published new photographs of the singer wearing a tank top and shorts.

"Anyone reacting to @billieeilish having a normal body has to take a hard look at themselves," the "2 Broke Girls" actor tweeted Wednesday night. "As someone who looked exactly like that at her age, it'd be nice for this unhealthy nonsense to f--- right off. She's beautiful and normal goodbye!"

—Kat Dennings (@OfficialKat) October 14, 2020

The actor Liz Jenkins replied to Dennings' tweet, writing: "This! I do want to take it a step further and say anyone reacting to anyone else's body at all needs to look at themselves. How you feel about another persons body is a YOU problem. Always."

Dennings responded: "100000% people need to just stop talking about it."

—Kat Dennings (@OfficialKat) October 14, 2020

The photographs of Eilish, 18, who is usually known for her trademark baggy, streetwear style were first published by the Daily Mail on Tuesday, and soon after online trolls began to repost the images alongside negative comments about the teenager's body.

One widely circulated tweet that has been criticized by the singer's fans said Eilish had "developed a mid-30's wine mom body."

—sydney (@custardloaf) October 13, 2020

On Tuesday night, Eilish also responded to the body-shamers by sharing a short video by the YouTuber Chizi Duru on her Instagram story in which Duru encouraged everyone "to start normalizing real bodies."

"Not everybody has a wagon behind 'em, OK?" Duru says in the video. "Guts are normal. They're normal. Boobs sag — especially after breastfeeding. Instagram isn't real."

In case someone needed a reminder.... Instagram has warped a lot of y’all into thinking NORMAL bodies are abnormal. NO. Not every black girl has a shelf behind them. Stomach pudge is completely normal. Most boobs SAGGGG. And to all my mamas out there, it’s ok! You brought LIFE into this world sis

A post shared by CHIZI DURU (@chiziduru) on Oct 7, 2020 at 12:28pm PDTOct 7, 2020 at 12:28pm PDT

Back in April during an interview with Dazed, Eilish said her trademark baggy wardrobe was not a conscious decision to challenge industry conventions but rather was a result of her physical insecurities.

"The only reason I did it was 'cos I hated my body," she said. "There was a point last year where I was naked and I didn't recognize my body 'cos I hadn't seen it in a while," she said, continuing, "I would see it sometimes and be like, 'Whose body is that?'"

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