"I feel so much better"
Billie Eilish is raw and real with her ups and downs with her body. While Eilish has previously talked about her body issues, she recently opened up about improving her approach towards fitness and the place that she finally stepped into - the gym.
During a recent interview with Apple Music, the ‘Happier Than Ever’ singer admitted she has been working out regularly and absolutely loving it. This came with the motive to physically prepare herself for her upcoming performances.
How she picked up on the gym habit
"I have been working on my bones and my body for the last — since [getting injured] really," Eilish said in the interview.
She added that this refreshing chance has mostly happened in the last four months. "And more seriously for the last, like, four months, I've been like completely changing the way that my life is involving fitness. Like I'm a gym rat now, like when the [censored] did that happen?”
Previously, Eilish had once sprained her ankle and was in immense pain while performing during a Milan show. Talking about her desire to not go through the same thing anymore and choosing to hit the gym, she said, “I don't know but it did. It started with 'I can't get injured anymore, can't do it, not going to let myself live like that.' Because I lived like that for years."
Previous injuries
Eilish has previously developed multiple injuries while touring and also had to give up dancing for a long time due to an injury.
In her documentary, ‘Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry,’ she said, "Everything I've ever loved, I've had to quit. I used to dance like 12 hours a week. And then I got injured. I tore my growth plate in my hip, the bone separated from the muscle. It was the most depressing year of my life. I just laid in bed; I couldn't move. Since then, I have not danced."
Changing her “terrible relationship” with her body
In an interview with the Sunday Times earlier this year, Eilish said she thinks of her own body as an “ugly friend.” She added that her relationship with her body “has been a truly horrible, terrible thing since I was 11.”
A lot of this is due to the unrealistic beauty standards often displayed on social media.
"I see people online, looking like I've never looked. And immediately I am like, oh my God, how do they look like that? I know the ins and outs of this industry, and what people actually use in photos, and I actually know what looks real can be fake. Yet I still see it and go, oh God, that makes me feel really bad, Eilish told The Guardian, adding, “And I mean, I'm very confident in who I am, and I'm very happy with my life… I'm obviously not happy with my body."
How gym has changed her life
Adding gym sessions to her routine has "changed [her] life," Eilish shared in the new interview.
"I started working out really heavy in May-ish, but then, especially coming back from Europe, I started working out at the gym for the first time and every day. And I know that's something a lot of people do, but that was not a thing I did. And it's become such an incredibly huge part of my life and it makes me feel so much better as a person and the way that I can move on stage now, I feel so much better," she happily added.
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Trying to find herself again
Along with improving her approach and relationship with fitness, Eilish is consciously trying to become multi-dimensional and not restrict her image or personality to a particular type or label. Finding the confidence to own herself, she told NME in June, "Now I finally feel comfortable in the person I actually am and being all of those things at once."
She added that she was in a "real transition period" in her personal life. "I'm trying to find myself again. I don't want to live the way that I lived last year; I want to live differently. I want to trust my gut more and listen to myself more."
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