![]() ![]() Photograph: Matty Vogel/The family of Billie Eilishįamily has been a steady presence in Eilish’s career her older brother, Finneas O’Connell, produces and writes many of her songs and her parents join both of them on tour. Just a few years and pages later, young fans are shown crying at her own concerts, waiting hours for a signature, reaching out to brush her arm.Įilish performing at Austin City Limits Music Festival in 2019. The strangeness of her ascent – uploading a song to SoundCloud when she was 13, a record deal at 14 – is embodied in one blurry shot taken not long before, on her 12th birthday, which she chose to spend standing on the side of the road among a gaggle of fellow Justin Bieber fans, waiting for a glimpse of the singer driving past. ![]() Unlike so many young popstars, Eilish did not come out of the Disney pipeline or child actor route and appears (from her family snaps, at least) to have had a remarkably normal childhood. ![]() “There was some stuff that I almost put in but kept out, after I realised people didn’t need to know.” “It was really difficult going through and deciding what to include, but I feel like I shared a lot in the book,” she says. (“It’s too much for them and it’s too much for me and it’s not healthy,” she told Vogue this week.) Every photo in the book is selected by her – and carefully. The book feels necessarily intimate, especially so for a young woman who has spoken about her struggle to maintain a balance between her need for privacy and her fans’ appetite for everything Eilish. ![]()
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