Billie Eilish has never been afraid of speaking out about her body – the way in which she views it and the way in which society and the media view it. In a Calvin Klein campaign last 12 months, she said that the rationale she wears her signature baggy clothes is because she doesn’t want the world to know the whole lot about her. “No person can have an opinion because they haven’t seen what’s underneath, you understand. No person may be like, ‘she’s slim thick’ ‘she’s not slim thick’…” she said. 

In an interview with Elle magazine, she said, “Someone with smaller boobs could wear a tank top, and I could placed on that exact tank top and get slut-shamed because my boobs are big… It makes me mad. I actually have to wear an enormous shirt for you to not feel uncomfortable about my boobs!”

Now, she has addressed these body shamers and the way in which society judges women in a video interlude during her world tour which kicked off in Miami last night. Within the video, Eilish undresses before lowering herself right into a black pool. Within the accompanying speech that narratives the video, Eilish says that everybody has opinions about her clothes and body. “Some people hate what I wear, some people praise it. Some people use it to shame others, some people use it to shame me. But I feel you watching at all times,” she says.

“Do my shoulders provoke you? Does my chest?… The body I used to be born with, is it not what you wanted?” she continues. “Though you’ve never seen my body, you continue to judge it and judge me for it.”

Eilish then moves to talk more generally in regards to the way we judge people on their appearances, making assumptions and valuations about people based on their size, before ending with the questions, “If I wear more, if I wear less, who decides what that makes me? What which means? Is my value based only in your perception? Or is your option of me not my responsibility?” 

See the video and browse the complete speech below.