Billie Eilish hits out at fans who criticise what she wears on Instagram: 'I can't win'
‘If I wore a dress to something, I would be hated for it,’ singer said in new interview
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Your support makes all the difference.Billie Eilish has said she feels she “can’t win” after facing criticism for posting an Instagram video in which she wore a bikini.
The singer, 18, shared a short clip taken on her holiday in Hawaii earlier this year, and she’s revealed in a new interview that she received a deluge of negative comments because of it.
Speaking to Dazed magazine, she said: “It was trending. There were comments like, ‘I don’t like her anymore because as soon as she turns 18 she’s a w***e. I can't win. I cannot win."
Eilish recalled receiving a similar backlash after she once wore a tank top.
I saw comments like, ‘How dare she talk about not wanting to be sexualised and wear this?’ If I wore a dress to something, I would be hated for it.”
She continued: People would be like, ‘You’ve changed, how dare you do what you’ve always rebelled against?’ I’m like, ‘I’m not rebelling against anything, really.’ I can’t stress it enough. I’m just wearing what I wanna wear.”
In the past, the “Bad Guy” singer, has said she wears baggy clothes to avoid being sexualised.
Just last month, she addressed the criticism of what she wears as well as negative comments made about her body on social media in a powerful message about body-shaming on the first night of her world tour.
“It’s not that I like [my body] now, I just think I’m a bit more okay with it,” she said in the interview.
“If there’s a day when I’m like, ‘You know what, I feel comfortable with my belly right now, and I wanna show my belly,’ I should be allowed to do that.”
Eilish’s world tour has been postponed due to the coronavirus lockdown.
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