Billie Eilish says she has deleted all social media apps from her phone

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by Nika Shakhnazarova

March 3, 2023 | 6:50 am

she “Happier than ever.”

Billie Eilish, who has 110 million followers on Instagram, revealed that she took a step back and deleted all the social media apps on her phone.

“I don’t look at him anymore,” the 21-year-old singer said on the show’s upcoming episode. Podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend”.

“I deleted everything from my phone, which is a huge deal to me. Because dude, you didn’t have the internet to grow up with.”

“For me, that was a big part of — not my childhood, I wasn’t an iPad kid, thank God — but honestly, I feel like I grew up in a perfect internet time when there wasn’t the internet, I had a childhood, and I was doing stuff all the time,” she explains.

The seven-time Grammy winner added, “And then when I became a teen, there were the iPhones, and when I got a little older, there was everything I became, but being a pre-teen and an internet teen, those were my people, I was one of them.”

The No Time To Die maker, who previously shut down criticism of her body online, said another reason she deleted her social media apps was because she didn’t like looking at her photos.

“I’m a person who uses the internet…and I don’t change anything about the person I am or the life I live, and to keep doing what I’ve been doing over the years, and slowly the videos I watch the things I see on the internet belong to me. ‘Aww, it stinks,'” she admitted. .

“Here’s the other thing that scares me about the internet is how naive it makes you. I think anything I’ve read on the internet. Me. I know that’s a stupid fact, and I shouldn’t because I have proof that it’s not all true; almost none of it correct. “

Eilish has been candid about her frustration with body shaming and online trolls.

In 2020, it is They fought against the critics by stripping in a YouTube video titled “It’s Not My Responsibility”.

in A Calvin Klein video in 2019’, the “Ocean Eyes” singer said she never wanted “the world to know everything about me.”

“I mean, that’s why I wear big baggy clothes,” she said at the time. “Nobody can have an opinion because they haven’t seen what’s underneath, you know?”

“Nobody can be like, ‘Oh, she’s skinny-fat, she’s not skinny-fat, she’s got a flat ass, she’s got a fat ass.'” She added, “Nobody can say anything like that because they don’t know.”