Billie Eilish shares a powerful message about body shaming during a break in her new stage show.
“If what I wear is comfortable, I am not a woman,” she says in a video that played near the end of her concert on Monday night in Miami. “If I shed the layers, I am a slut.
“Though you've never seen my body, you still judge it and judge me for it.”
The two-minute video shows Eilish slowly removing layers of clothing as she sinks into a thick black liquid. It plays before the 18-year-old performs “All The Good Girls Go To Hell.”
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In a voiceover, Eilish says: “Some people hate what I wear, some people praise it. Some people use it to shame others, some people use it to shame me.
“But I feel you watching... always. And nothing I do goes unseen. So while I feel your stares, your disapproval or your sighs of relief, if I lived by them, I'd never be able to move.”
The singer asks: “Do my shoulders provoke you? Does my chest? Am I my stomach? My hips? The body I was born with, is it not what you wanted?
“If I wear more, if I wear less, who decides what that makes me? What that means?
Is my value based only on your perception? Or is your opinion of me not my responsibility?”
Eilish’s Where Do We Go? World Tour is scheduled to come to Vancouver on April 11.