Billie Eilish slams body-shamers in powerful new short film

Billie Eilish has spoken. In a short film released on her YouTube channel, the Grammy winner addressed people who made pejorative comments about her weight and clothing. 

Eilish premiered the film — entitled "NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY" — on the first night of her 'Where Do We Go?' world tour, which was later postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. 

"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," says Eilish in the film. 

"Would you like me to be smaller? Weaker? Softer? Taller? Would you like me to be quiet? 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?" she asks. 

Eilish has previously spoken out about wearing loose-fitting clothing to avoid being body-shamed and sexualised. "That’s why I wear baggy clothes," she says in a Calvin Klein ad. "Nobody can have an opinion because they haven't seen what’s underneath."

The singer reiterated this in her short film, saying, "If I wear what is comfortable, I am not a woman. If I shed the layers, I’m a slut. Though you’ve never seen my body, you still judge it and judge me for it. Why?"