Billie Eilish is having a great year. She took over the Billboard Hot 100 chart with 'Bad Guy,' she's made a huge impact on pop music, and she got to achieve her tweenage dream of recording a song with Justin Bieber himself.
Unfortunately, fame comes with some downsides, especially when you're just 17 years old.
Billie's love for oversized, comfortable-looking clothing is well-known and well-documented across all of her social media pages. It's not just about comfort, though. There's another reason she dresses the way she does.
For her part in the #MyCalvins campaign, Billie explained, "I never want the world to know everything about me. I mean, that's why I wear big, baggy clothes."
She continued, "Nobody can have an opinion because they haven't seen what's underneath, you know? Nobody can be like, 'aw, she's slim thick,' 'she's not slim thick,' 'she's got a flat ass,' 'she's got a fat ass.'"
"It kind of gives nobody the opportunity to judge what your body looks like," she said. "I want layers and layers and layers and I want to be mysterious. You don’t know what’s underneath and you don’t know what’s on top."
When a Twitter user found some candid photos of Billie in just a tank top, he did the exact thing (almost with an exact quote) that Billie didn't want to have happen.
Many were also quick to point out that Billie is only seventeen years old, which makes a lot of the men who are commenting on her body and her appearance extra skeevy.
Her fans were obviously going to point that out, and many replied with links to the Calvin Klein commercial in its entirety. It didn't seem to be very effective.
The cover, which shows a digitally altered Billie with no hair and no clothing looking like an android, caught Billie's attention for a very important reason.
Billie left a scathing comment on their Instagram share of their cover, reiterating that she had no idea the cover was happening, she had no creative input on the use of her image, and that to create an image of her topless when she's only 17 was super messed up.
Sure, all the teens online like to joke about their "wigs" being "snatched," but I don't think any of them want to see themselves bald on a magazine cover.
They explained that the cover was a part of a series they were doing on digital prodigy artists, and that they didn't intend to insult her. Fans were not appeased, saying on Twitter, "THIS IS SO MESSED UP."
That fan was likely referencing Troye Sivan's recent tweets slamming an interviewer for asking him inappropriate questions about his sex life.
I am so here for celebrities speaking up about unfair treatment in the media, whether it's a creepy fake magazine cover or totally inappropriate interview questions!
We all love to say stars are just like us until they ask us to treat them the way we'd like to be treated.
