![]() ![]() “I’ve never felt like a woman, to be honest with you. “Maybe my not really caring about being sexualized is because I’ve never felt desired or desirable.” Eilish leans back into the couch and wraps herself tighter in a big blue baseball jacket, her jet-black hair peeking out from under a black beanie. If I had shown it at that time, I would have been completely devastated if people had said anything.” I wasn’t strong enough and secure enough to show it. “But I didn’t want people to have access to my body, even visually. “I wasn’t trying to have people not sexualize me,” she explains. That signature style provoked praise, attention and even Halloween costumes - but with it came unwanted speculation. In the song’s official music video, which the singer directed, Eilish faces earthquakes, wind and heavy rain as she unpacks a small box with Barbie-sized versions of her most iconic looks: mostly oversized T-shirts and sweatpants. ![]() I wasn’t expecting to have women around the world feel connected.” “I feel like I helped bring people together, and it felt so special. The scene spawned a heartwarming TikTok trend in which more than 1.3 million users made video collages set to the song, sharing their own experiences of girlhood. Now, feel,” she says, offering Barbie visions of real women’s lives. ![]() blockbuster, scoring a scene where Rhea Perlman’s Ruth Handler teaches Margot Robbie’s Barbie what it means to be a woman. The soaring, somber piano ballad is placed at the emotional climax of the Warner Bros. That tenuous relationship with femininity and womanhood has only recently started to change for her, following the July release of the “Barbie” song. But I’m also so intimidated by them and their beauty and their presence.” “I have deep connections with women in my life, the friends in my life, the family in my life,” she says. For a stadium-selling artist from a different era, such a revelation would have required record-label ruminations about the effect it could have on her career. ![]() She doesn’t miss a beat as she says this, like any other young woman of her generation talking about her life. “I’ve never really felt like I could relate to girls very well,” Eilish says. In fact, she’s spent much of her life plagued by the assumption that other women don’t like her. And just like that, we’re sitting crisscross applesauce on the couch. “You’re so far away! Come sit next to me,” she beckons. I sit down facing Eilish from the other side of a large coffee table. “Oh, my God, we will be eating these,” she says, tearing the box open as her mom, Maggie Baird, snaps a quick photo of the treats. Since she’s being honored in our Power of Women issue for her work with plant-based nonprofit Support + Feed, it felt appropriate to bring a few vegan pastries from a local bakery. When Eilish first sees me, her famous blue eyes instantly lock on the bright-pink box in my hand. In many ways in my life, I feel like I’m just now waking up.” “I feel like I’m becoming a person I really love and doing things I feel really proud of. She bristles as she recalls the “weird and upsetting” scrutiny she faced in her formative years: Who was she dating? What was her sexuality? Why did she dress like that? More sinister critics even questioned if she was secretly a devil-worshipper. Combined with a distinctive style of baggy, neon clothes, striking blue eyes and a flair for the downright creepy (an early music video featured a tarantula crawling out of her mouth), she soon became the name on the lips of everyone in the music industry. She immediately endeared herself to the public with a persona full of contradictions: a whisper-soft voice paired with sticky hooks about murdering her friends, lighting an ex’s car on fire and dumping a possessive boyfriend on his birthday. As her career quickly took off, she was forced to navigate her adolescence with everyone watching. Eilish, 21, got her first taste of fame at 13, when “Ocean Eyes,” the ethereal track she recorded with her older brother, Finneas, in his tiny bedroom, went viral on SoundCloud. ![]()
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