She's pretty much one of the biggest pop stars on the planet right now, but Billie Eilish is not afraid to use her platform.
The 18-year-old kicked off her 'Where Do We Go?' world tour in Miami on Monday night, and the concert includes a video interlude about body shaming.
Before playing her song 'All Good Girls Go to Hell' at the arena show, a video of Eilish stripping to her bra while sinking into a pool of water played on screens, as she shared her thoughts on being body-shamed by the media and the general public. "If what I wear is comfortable, I am not a woman. If I shed the layers, I am a slut," she said. "Though you’ve never seen my body, you still judge it and judge me for it. Why?"
Read the transcript of the full interlude and watch footage from the gig below:
"Do you really know me?
You have opinions about my opinions, about my music, about my clothes, about my body.
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.
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?
If what I wear is comfortable, I am not a woman. 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. Why?
You make assumptions about people based on their size. We decide who they are. We decide what they’re worth.
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?"
