Billie Eilish has been pretty vocal about her experiences as a woman and her sexuality. The 21-year-old star, who tasted fame and success at a very young age, has also tasted the ugly parts of it and hasn’t held herself back from speaking about it.
In a recent interview, Eilish spoke up about how she feels about being sexualized in the industry and why she doesn’t feel like a woman.
“It’s Really Hard To Be A Woman”: Billie Eilish
The singer opened up about her experiences as a woman while giving an emotional speech at Variety’s Power Of Women event in LA.
She said, “It’s really hard to be a woman out here guys. I have never felt truly like a woman. And I’ve spent a lot of my life not feeling like I fit in to being a woman.”
The ‘Bad Guy‘ singer then talked about how she has had a hard time to fit in. She added, “For a couple years, because of that insecurity, I became almost like very ‘pick me’ about it and I’d be like, ‘Well, I’m not like other girls ’cause I don’t do this and this,’ and I’ve grown to be very resentful of that period of time because I’m so much more interested in being like other girls, because other girls are f–king tight and I love women.”
That doesn’t mean she isn’t grateful to be a woman. She continued, “This sounds kind of f–ked up—but I have a lot of internalized misogyny inside of me and I find it coming out in places I don’t want it to. And I have to say with like, full transparency I feel very grateful to be a woman right now.”
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Billie Eilish Talks About Womanhood And Getting Sexualised
Billie Eilish previously only wore baggy clothes, which she revealed was due to her body dysmorphia. Later on, as she started connecting to a more feminine side of herself and started wearing feminine clothes, she got hate for it as many people downgraded her and sexualized her. Despite all of it, she struggles to feel like a ‘woman’.
“I’ve never felt desirable,” she had said to Variety, “I’ve never felt feminine. I have to convince myself that I’m, like, a pretty girl. I identify as ‘she/her’ and things like that, but I’ve never really felt like a girl.”
Talking about being sexualized, she said, “I wasn’t trying to have people not sexualize me. But I didn’t want people to have access to my body, even visually. I wasn’t strong enough and secure enough to show it. If I had shown it at that time, I would have been completely devastated if people had said anything.” She then adds, “Maybe my not really caring about being sexualized is because I’ve never felt desired or desirable.”
Talking about the scrutiny she faced once she started wearing feminine clothes, she concluded, “You wear something that’s at all revealing, and everyone’s like, ‘Oh, but you didn’t want people to sexualize you?’”
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