Billie Eilish strips in short film about body shaming

Popstar Billie Eilish just made a statement about the double standards of body image by sharing the video that she used during her show in Miami as an introduction to her song All the Good Girls Go to Hell.

Eilish shared the short film with the title Not My Responsibility, in full on her YouTube page. It is only three minutes and 41 seconds long (3:41) and shows the 18-year-old, extra-ordinary singer stripping off her layers of clothing one by one in synchronization to her voice over.

In the voice-over, she asked several questions pertaining to her body, the most powerful of which is perhaps "The body I was born with, is it not what you wanted?"

A full text of the voice-over is written in the description of the video and is a lamentation of the expectations that young women are put through with regard to their image and the body shaming that they get.

It laments why people judge and make assumptions based on the size of their bodies. Eilish also questions why her value is based on someone else's perception or that is other's opinion of her, not her responsibility.

Indeed, the short film is a powerful stand against body shaming.

This is not surprising from Eilish as she has already shown that she is not the typical pop star. Despite that, people had taken to her based on the billion times that her songs have been streamed online or that she has 15 million followers on her Instagram account even before she debuted an album.

Not only that, but Eilish was also featured in a 2019 Calvin Klein ad wherein she wore baggy clothes, a departure from several artists who have either stripped to their lingeries or posed totally nude for the ad.

Eilish said that no one could have an opinion about her body on the ad because she had not shown anything; no one saw her body underneath the clothes she was wearing.

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