has vowed to zip her lips about her personal life for good. The 22-year-old superstar, famed for bangers like "Bad Guy" and "Birds of a Feather," briefly dated Neighbourhood's Jesse Rutherford and has identified as bisexual. But now, she's craving the days when her love life wasn't everyone's business.
Chatting with Vogue, Billie spilled the beans on her oversharing woes: "I wish no one knew anything about my sexuality or anything about my dating life. Ever, ever, ever. And I hope that they never will again.
" She laid down the law, declaring: "And I'm never talking about my sexuality ever again. And I'm never talking about who I'm dating ever again." In a heart-to-heart with Variety before, the "Ocean Eyes" hitmaker got real about the struggles of being in the limelight as a young woman, calling it a constant struggle.
"Being a woman is just such a war, forever. Especially being a young woman in the public eye. It's really unfair.
It turns out that I'm young, and I have a whole life of s*** I can do." Reflecting on her rapid rise to fame, Billie mused over how it made her mature too fast, feeling pressured to act way beyond her years. She's since had an epiphany there's no need to ditch her youth.
She said: "Maybe because my life became so adult very young, I forgot that I was still that young. I settled in a lot of ways: I lived my life as if I were in my 70s. I realized recently that I don't need to do that.
" In her candid journey towards embracing herself, Billie laid bare.