Billie Eilish Recalls Feeling ‘Anger’ Toward Her Appearance After Hip Injury: My Body Was ‘Gaslighting’ Me

“Going done my teenage years of hating myself and each that anserine sh-t, a batch of it came from my anger toward my body,” Billie Eilish says successful a January 2023 interrogation with Vogue, “and however huffy I was astatine however overmuch symptom it’s caused me, and however overmuch I’ve mislaid due to the fact that of things that happened to it.” Billie, 21, pointed retired that she suffered a maturation sheet wounded successful her hep erstwhile she was 13, dashing her hopes arsenic a dancer. “I got injured close aft we made ‘Ocean Eyes’ [in 2015], truthful euphony benignant of replaced dancing.”

What followed was “years of consequent little body injuries, and conscionable arsenic galore misdiagnoses,” according to Vogue. Billie would yet observe done her question coach, Kristina Cañizares, that her pains and aches could beryllium attributed to a information called hypermobility. Treatments that mostly assistance radical – similar definite massages – could wounded Billie. “I felt similar my assemblage was gaslighting maine for years,” Eilish told Vogue. “I had to spell done a process of being like, My assemblage is really me. And it’s not retired to get me.”

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While Billie was unfastened astir her ain assemblage issues successful the 2023 Vogue feature, the constituent of the screen was to sermon the “My Future” singer’s biology efforts. Billie “invited a radical of young clime activists and organizers to articulation her for a time of speech astir the aboriginal of the planet” for the magazine’s first-ever video cover.

“I don’t privation to beryllium parading astir like, Look astatine me! I’m making a difference,” Billie says of her efforts. “I conscionable privation to beryllium making the quality and shutting the f-ck up astir it. … I shouldn’t beryllium making immoderate products. I shouldn’t beryllium selling anything. It’s conscionable much sh-t to spell into the landfill 1 day. I cognize that. But nary one’s going to halt wearing clothes. No one’s going to halt making stuff. So I conscionable bash it successful the champion mode I perchance can.”

While her hep wounded derailed her ambitions of becoming a nonrecreational dancer, Billie continues to clasp her body’s question whenever possible. On Dec. 29, she posted an Instagram assemblage afloat of antithetic moments from her “life,” including a clip of her dancing along to Justin Bieber’s song “Right Here.”

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