"[I]n an attempt to defend [Billie] Eilish — a sincere attempt, often from other young women — a new narrative is being formed around her body."

"Now, it’s about Eilish’s 'bravery' in having a body atypical for celebrities because she’s seemingly not a size 0. It’s a common refrain anytime a woman in the public eye is seen eating in public, having hips in public, or having rolls in public.... The goal of this kind of noxious positivity is to make clear that not being thin — either intentionally or not — is just as worthy of celebration as thinness has been since basically forever. But this is a false equivalence; we praise thinness because we think it tells us something about someone’s worth, their inherent beauty, their value as a person. The issue isn’t so much celebrating one type of body over another, but rather celebrating a body for its bravery, as if there’s something impressive about existing in the world even though your body doesn’t conform to narrow standards of beauty. Refusing beauty norms, or merely falling outside of them, isn’t that brave; it’s just an inevitability since those standards are increasingly harder to attain. Arguably, every woman in the world is brave in that regard because none of us are meeting every characteristic of perfection, whether we want to or not. Eilish has been vocal in the past about why she wears clothes '800 sizes bigger' than she actually is. 'It kind of gives nobody the opportunity to judge what your body looks like. I don’t want to give anyone the excuse of judging,' she told Vogue Australia in 2019. 'Anything you look at, you judge.'... Calling someone brave for merely existing in the body they have doesn’t take power away from thinness, and it doesn’t create any kind of equilibrium in culture.... The truth about Eilish’s body in those paparazzi photos — the truth about most women and their bodies — is really boring: It’s just a body, and you get the one you get."

 From "That Photo Of Billie Eilish Isn’t Brave. It’s Just Typical. In the pursuit of body positivity, we’ve tipped over into an absurd place — where merely existing in a body larger than a size 0 is considered courageous" Scaachi Koul (Buzzfeed).

First, I'd just like to say, the idea that there are beautiful celebrities who wear size zero is absurd. The chest measurement for size zero is 30 inches! Please point me to any adult with a 30 inch chest. This is not any sort of beauty ideal. But people say "size 0" the way people used to say "thin as a reed." Nobody is thin as a reed, and if they were, it would freak you out. 

Second, I'll say that women's bodies are not boring. They might be the most interesting thing in the world. Stop trying to tell people to be bored and dulled by the sight of human bodies. The message should be about etiquette — how to act around women's bodies, how to speak in a way that brings credit to you and gets you more of what you'd love in this world. Etiquette... and love! Isn't that what you want more of?

Third, we can bemoan the paparazzi, but we're hypocrites if we click through to the pictures — did you click through? — or if you write a column at Buzzfeed and include the pictures. 

Fourth, Billie Eilish is great and we should enjoy her performances, which include the costumes she chooses — big, baggy, body-hiding clothes. Maybe part of the performance is the mystery of what she's got under those clothes that she's hiding so well. She must know that creates a market for paparazzi pictures that catch her off guard.

Fifth: Or maybe she envisioned the whole performance — the hiding, the heightened interest, the catching off guard, the talk about her finally revealed body. 

Six, she looks just fine — very close to the ideal that I had for a life-drawing model, and I've drawn hundreds of models in many art classes over the years. A fashion-model body is actually the most boring artist's model, in my view, and I have a very experienced view.

Seventh, the clothes she's got on in the paparazzi picture are pretty ugly — in-your-face ugly — especially the woolly socks with those shoes they call "slides" — especially with shorts — horrible shorts. I'm going to assume she did all that on purpose. Screw you for looking!