The "Bad Guy" singer Billie Eilish said in a new interview that she wanted the option to show her body when she turned 18 — an about-face from her previous statements saying she purposefully wore baggy and oversize clothes to hide her body from would-be body shamers.
"I'm gonna be a woman. I wanna show my body," Eilish told Elle.
"What if I wanna make a video where I wanna look desirable?"
After clarifying that she didn't mean an overtly sexual video, Eilish said that showing off her figure would still most likely make a fuss.
"I know it would be a huge thing," she said in the interview, adding, "I know people will say, 'I've lost all respect for her.'"
Eilish had previously said she didn't like to wear form-fitting clothes for fear of getting body-shamed or sexualized.
"That's why I wear big, baggy clothes," she said in a Calvin Klein ad earlier this year. "Nobody can have an opinion, because they haven't seen what's underneath."
In fact, a photo of Eilish wearing a form-fitting white tank top caused an uproar on Twitter in June after numerous users sexualized the 17-year-old singer.
More recently, Eilish slammed Nylon Germany for depicting her as a bald and topless robot for the cover of its magazine.
"I did not consent in any way," Eilish wrote on Instagram, denouncing the publication for making her topless in the photo even though she's still a minor.
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