In a Dazed interview released on Thursday, Billie Eilish stated that she adopted her characteristic baggy outfit due to physical insecurities.

The 18-year-old pop star, who is best known for her multi-award-winning album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, is recognized for her unique stage appearance, which includes oversized clothing.

Billie Eilish attends the 92nd Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on February 09, 2020 in Hollywood, California (Getty Images)

“The only reason I did it was ‘cos I hated my body,” the five-time Grammy winner told Dazed. The ‘Bad Guy’ singer went on to say that she was so uncomfortable with her own body that she would intentionally avoid looking in the mirror. “There was a point last year where I was naked and I didn’t recognize my body ’cos I hadn’t seen it in a while. I would see it sometimes and be like, ‘Whose body is that?’” she explained.

Eilish, on the other hand, told Dazed that her confidence has improved. “It’s not that I like [my body] now, I just think I’m a bit more OK with it.” Before her tour was postponed, the singer began displaying new show graphics, which featured a spoken word piece by her, in which she addressed the unfounded criticism of her clothing choices and delved deeper into the topic of body shaming. She also chastised people who wrote her off as a “slut.”

She did concede, though, that any alteration to her signature look would be met with criticism. “If I wore a dress to something, I would be hated for it.

Billie Eilish kicked off her world tour on March 9 in Miami, but it was postponed due to coronavirus. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation

“People would be like, ‘You’ve changed, how dare you do what you’ve always rebelled against?’ I’m like, ‘I’m not rebelling against anything, really.’ I can’t stress it enough. I’m just wearing what I wanna wear. If there’s a day when I’m like, ‘You know what, I feel comfortable with my belly right now, and I wanna show my belly,’ I should be allowed to do that,” the ‘everything I wanted’ star said.

The singer previously stated that she concealed her body on stage to avoid being sexualized by the media or the music business.

Eilish discussed her style in a video interlude on the opening night of her global tour, which was postponed due to Coronavirus, last month, saying: “Some people hate what I wear, some people praise it. Some people use it to shame others, some people use it to shame me.”

“If I wear what is comfortable, I am not a woman. If I shed the layers, I’m a s—,” Eilish said, adding, “Though you’ve never seen my body, you still judge it, and judge me for it. Why?”

The singer went on to say that the way she dresses was never meant to make a statement against the stereotypical image of a female pop star.

She said: “[People write] ‘Billie Eilish: rule-breaker’, or ‘breaking all the rules’, or whatever. And I’d be like, ‘What rules are there?’ I didn’t consciously go, ‘I’m not gonna do that, I’m gonna do this.’ I [just] didn’t think of myself as being in the realm of those people [famous female artists]. I was never comparing myself to them.”

Eilish also came out in 2019 about body shaming and her desire not to be objectified as a young female musician. She says she dresses in large clothes to avoid being objectified by body shamers.

Billie Eilish attends The BRIT Awards 2020 at The O2 Arena on February 18, 2020, in London, England (Getty Images)

“That’s why I wear baggy clothes. Nobody can have an opinion because they haven’t seen what’s underneath. Nobody can be like, ‘she’s slim-thick,’ ‘she’s not slim-thick,’ ‘she’s got a flat a**,’ ‘she’s got a fat a**. ‘ Nobody can say any of that because they don’t know,” she said in a Calvin Klein ad, according to Insider.

She did, however, express a wish to flaunt her physique and “look desirable” as she grew older at the time. “I’m gonna be a woman. I wanna show my body. What if I wanna make a video where I wanna look desirable?” she told Elle in 2019.