The story I decided to cover is about Billie Eilish being body shamed. My print source was entitled ‘Billie Eilish shouldn’t have to keep answering questions about her body’ and was from Mic.com and the broadcast source was entitled ‘Billie Eilish Responds to ‘Wine Mom Body’ Shaming’ and was from Clevver News.
I think both sources were written/spoken well. They both had pretty much the same information and they both took the stance that no one should be judging an 18-year old’s body. Eilish is known to wear baggy clothes. She does this so no one can have an opinion on her body, because they have no clue what it looks like. This changed when paparazzi snapped a picture of her in a fitted tank top. The photo quickly went viral and the internet had several opinions on it.
Both articles quoted tweets and Instagram posts in which people were saying mean things about Eilish. Both articles specifically mentioned the tweet from a 29-year-old man from the U.K. who tweeted “in 10 months Billie Eilish has developed a mid-30’s wine mom body.” Both articles also talk about how Eilish ‘clapped back’ against trolls by sharing a TikTok on Instagram about people starting to normalize real bodies.
Links:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDmWFdSCnk4
Print: https://www.mic.com/p/billie-eilish-shouldnt-have-to-keep-answering-questions-about-her-body-39049970
The video version was unnecessarily repetitive, which accounts for the length. I’m guessing she had a hole to fill in the broadcast, which required her to go long. The written version is much more on point.