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Billie Eilish deletes all her social media apps from her phone

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Published 12:21 4 Mar 2023 GMT

Billie Eilish deletes all her social media apps from her phone

She's said she 'doesn't look at them'

Claire Reid

Claire Reid

Billie Eilish says she’s deleted all social media apps off her phone and that she ‘doesn’t look at them’.

The 21-year-old said she had managed to distance herself from social media despite being an ‘internet kid’.

Speaking on an upcoming episode of the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, Eilish said deleting her social media apps had been ‘such a huge deal’ for her.

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She explained: “I don’t look at it [social media] anymore. I’ve deleted it all off my phone.”

The Grammy winner, who appeared on the episode alongside brother Finneas, then spoke about growing up as a ‘teenager on the internet’.

“I feel like I grew up in the perfect time of the internet when it wasn’t so internet-y that I didn’t have a childhood,” she said.

“I really had such a childhood, and I was doing stuff all the time.

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“It was like computers and games on computers, but barely.

Billie Eilish says she's deleted social media apps off her phone.
ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo

“And then when I became a pre-teen, there were iPhones, and then I got a little older, there was all of what has become, but being a pre-teen and a teenager on the internet, those were my people, I was one of them.”

And despite initially enjoying her internet use, Eilish said that as her fame grew, she started to see things about herself online that she wasn’t so keen on.

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She said: “I’m a person who goes on the internet… And slowly the videos that I’m watching and the things that I see on the internet are, like, about me.

"I’m, like, ‘Eww, stinky.’ I don’t like that.”

Eilish also admitted to being quite gullible with what she came across online and fears that others are the same.

Billie and brother Finneas.
Imagespace / Alamy Stock Photo

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“Anything I read on the internet I believe,” she told the host. “Me! And I know for a fact that’s stupid and I shouldn’t do that because I have proof that it’s not all true.

"Almost none of it’s true. It’s, like, little things, like small white lies that goes over everybody’s head, but everyone believes.”

Mentioning some specific ‘lies’ she’d seen about herself, Eilish said that she would be photographed while leaving the gym and then next day see that same photo online with a caption that it showed ‘Billie Eilish in L.A. leaving the studio where she's working on new music’.

Eilish said: “And I was like, ‘wow, how much of what I read on the internet when I was younger was a lie?’”

Featured Image Credit: Image Press Agency/JEP Live Music/Alamy Stock Photo

Topics: Celebrity, Billie Eilish, Music, Social Media

Claire Reid
Claire Reid

Claire is a journalist at UNILAD who, after dossing around for a few years, went to Liverpool John Moores University. She graduated with a degree in Journalism and a whole load of debt. When not writing words in exchange for money she is usually at home watching serial killer documentaries surrounded by cats.

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