From ‘hating' herself to dealing with body issues- Billie Eilish opens up on Hypermobility diagnosis

Billie Eilish opened up about hating herself and admitted that she had strained relationship with her body throughout her teenage years. In a recent interview with Vogue for its first-ever video cover, the pop star spoke about the real meaning behind her track titled, ‘My Future’ that focuses on her relationship with her own self and body and revealed that she had complicated feelings about her body.

Billie explained that she had too much anger toward her body and following her growth plate injury in her hip, she was in a lot of pain that changed her life. Before her debut in the music industry with the 2015 release of "Ocean Eyes”, Eilish had aspirations of being a dancer that got shattered post her injury at the age of 13.

The ‘Bad Guy’ singer said that she felt like her body was gaslighting her for years and she took time to accept the fact that it was her own body and she can’t get rid of that. Eventually, after dealing with various lower body injuries, Eilish was then diagnosed with hypermobility, which is a syndrome where an individual has overly flexible joints, causing them to bend more than they should, which can be painful.

Eilish's mother, Maggie Baird, also gave insights into her diagnosis during the interview and said that treatments that were helpful to others "like, certain kinds of massage or chiropractors” could harm Eilish.

In such a scenario, the GRAMMY-winning singer was forced to replace her dancing career with music and the songstress revealed that the injury actually led to a beautiful discovery in her life. However, this is not the first time the singer has spoken about her body, as her style and body image issues have continued to be a topic of interest for quite some time now.

Here are 4 times when the pop star openly discussed her “terrible relationship” with her body. Have a look.

1- Billie Eilish spoke about wearing bigger clothes

In 2021, Eilish had spoken about her "terrible relationship with (her) body" in an interview with The Guardian. She had revealed that she has to "disassociate from the ideas (she has) of (her) body" during performances as her performance would have been affected due to it. The interview saw her talking about wearing bigger clothes that makes it easier for her to move in without showing her physique that can be “really unflattering”. She had also questioned society's obsession with bodies, be it their own or that of others.

2- Eilish questioned society’s obsession with body

In 2019, during a campaign for Calvin Klein, the singer had discussed the problem of body obsession and had said that society's obsession with bodies is the inspiration behind her public image. In the video, she was seen saying the baggy clothes make it so "nobody can have an opinion because they haven’t seen what’s underneath."

3- When Eilish said her boobs were trending on Twitter

Yet again in another interview with Elle Magazine in 2019, Eilish had said that feels harshly judged while wearing a top that might show a bit of cleavage because of her “bigger chest”. On several occasions, the pop star’s outfits made it very obvious that obsession with her body had a profound impact on her style. She hinted at an incident when she was clicked in a tank top while stepping out of her tour bus and said that her boobs were trending on Twitter. She said almost every portal wrote about her boobs.

4- Slut-shamed for having big boobs

She had said that she was born with DNA that gave her big boobs. Eilish had also referred to an incident when she was asked by her close friend to wear a shirt while she was FaceTiming with him wearing a tank top. She said that “it’s stupid to slut-shame someone just because one has big boobs”.

Singer worked through the negativity of body issues

During the conversation with Vogue, The ‘Everything I Wanted’ star talked about the journey of climate change awareness and the global crisis. The cover photo of the magazine’s latest issue showed Eilish posing with young activists who work for climate change. She said that she is inspired and is sure that her passion for climate change will not go in vain. The pop star added how she wants to make people understand her approach and explain to them that if they also don’t do it they will be the “bad person”.

Eilish said that she wishes to bring changes in life and save the world alone. She wants to grow her own food and live off the grid, erase her carbon footprint. But she said that “all that does is erase me”, whereas if everyone works together, then they can fix the climate issue.

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