{"id":2622,"date":"2024-04-18T21:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2024-01-04T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:12:06","slug":"billie-eilishs-short-film-sends-a-strong-message-to-body-shamers-not-my-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/?p=2622","title":{"rendered":"Billie Eilish&#8217;s Short Film Sends a Strong Message to Body Shamers: &#8220;Not My Responsibility&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Eilish used her <strong>Where Do We Go?<\/strong> tour as an opportunity to address body shamers and send a powerful message about unrealistic beauty standards through her own short film. The &#8220;Not My Responsibility&#8221; video finally made its way to YouTube on May 26, and includes a vulnerable narration by the singer where she silences judgments passed on her appearance.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote\"><p>&#8220;Though you&#8217;ve never seen my body, you still judge it and judge me for it. Why?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Do you know me? Really know me?&#8221; she begins, all while removing layers of clothes on screen and slipping into water. &#8220;You have opinions about my opinions, about my music, about my clothes, about my body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So while I feel your stares, your disapproval, or your sigh of relief, if I lived by them I&#8217;d never be able to move,&#8221; she said. Eilish continued, &#8220;Though you&#8217;ve never seen my body, you still judge it and judge me for it. Why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eilish has been open about her struggles with body image that started in adolescence, and how the public eye has caused her to rely on a baggy wardrobe to feel comfortable. Her video appears to be an important extension of these feelings, where Eilish can finally address her critics on her own terms. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We make assumptions about people based on their size. We decide who they are, we decide what they&#8217;re worth. If I wear more, if I wear less. Who decides what that makes me? What that means? Is my value based only on your perception? Or is your opinion of me not my responsibility?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Eilish used her Where Do We Go? tour as an opportunity to address body shamers and send a powerful message about unrealistic beauty standards through her own short film. The &#8220;Not My Responsibility&#8221; video finally made its way to YouTube on May 26, and includes a vulnerable narration by the singer where she silences judgments passed on her appearance. &#8220;Though you&#8217;ve never seen my body, you still judge it and judge me for it. Why?&#8221; &#8220;Do you know me? Really know me?&#8221; she begins, all while removing layers of clothes on screen and slipping into water. &#8220;You have opinions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[932,509,215],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-fitness","tag-billie-eilish","tag-body-image","tag-celebrity-fitness","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}