Billie Eilish has claimed that the controversial trend line Brandy Melville contributed to the beginning of her “physique issues.”

The 22-year-old singer spoke candidly about rising up with the model, which famously sells all of its closing in a single measurement, throughout a canopy story interview with Complicated revealed on Thursday (December 5). She defined that she liked Brandy Melville a lot as a baby that it brought on her to develop a destructive view of her look.

“I by no means wore pants or shorts once I was just a little child,” she defined, noting that she liked carrying skirts and enormous attire rising up. “However once I received to be about 11, I received obsessive about this model referred to as Brandy Melville. They usually solely bought garments in a single measurement. I used to be chubbier and I used to be obsessive about these garments, however I’d purchase a shirt and it wouldn’t match me. That’s when my physique issues began.”

“I used to be across the age of 10 or 11. I received boobs at like 9, and I used to be simply creating actually early,” Eilish continued. “I wasn’t slim. Additionally, I used to be in ballet, and that’s this complete world of physique issues.”

The “Birds of a Feather” singer famous that at this level in her childhood, she began carrying “dishevelled clothes.” Whereas it was her “model” on the time, she additionally admitted that she wore baggier garments on account of her struggles together with her physique picture.

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“It was how I might really feel snug in my physique and never really feel tied to how my physique seems to be. I didn’t need my physique to be a part of my outfit,” she continued. “I needed my outfit to be my outfit, and my physique occurs to be inside it.”

Eilish defined that when she started to achieve extra success in her profession across the age of 16, she grew to become identified for carrying “dishevelled garments solely” and never wanting “like a woman.” Whereas making her 2021 album Happier Than Ever, she determined to point out her followers that she was rather more than the “one factor” folks outlined her as.

“I needed to fully reverse every thing and be this girly woman for a second and have these pink nails, blonde hair, skirts, attire, button-ups, bras, and lingerie,” Eilish stated. “I actually simply did it to show some extent. I used to be identical to, “F** you guys. I can do no matter I need.’”

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Since 2009, Brandy Melville has fed stockpiles of single-sized clothes to younger women with a list that includes “child tees,” low-rise denim, and micro shorts. The model gained notoriety all through the 2010s, as social media stars had been typically seen in Brandy Melville clothes on Instagram.

The corporate has not solely been criticized for its one-sized clothes, but it surely has additionally confronted accusations of cultivating a poisonous office. Within the HBO documentary Brandy Helville: The Cult of Quick Style, which got here out in April, former staff accused members of Brandy Melville’s senior management of racism, antisemitic habits, and sexual exploitation.

The “Dangerous Man” singer has beforehand opened up about her struggles with physique picture. Chatting with Vogue in 2023, Eilish spoke out about her hypermobility prognosis and the way it brought on her to really feel anger towards her physique.

Based on the Cleveland Clinic, joint hypermobility syndrome is a connective tissue dysfunction that causes ache from having very versatile joints.

“Going by way of my teenage years of hating myself and all that silly s***, quite a lot of it got here from my anger towards my physique, and the way mad I used to be at how a lot ache it’s brought on me, and the way a lot I’ve misplaced due to issues that occurred to it,” Eilish admitted.