Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish is an American singer-songwriter and pop culture phenomenon. She released her debut single, Ocean Eyes, in 2015 on SoundCloud followed by an EP two years later. Her first studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, was released in 2019 and was an instant hit, going straight in at number one in the US charts. She repeated this success with her second album, Happier Than Ever, in 2021. In 2024, she released her third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, which was another huge success and earned Billie her first UK number one single.

During her short career so far, she has already won an impressive number of awards, including two Academy Awards, 10 Grammy Awards, eight MTV Video Music Awards, four Brit Awards, and two Golden Globes.

Why Billie Eilish is vegan

Billie Eilish was raised vegetarian by her mother, Maggie Baird, and has been vegan since 2014, according to a reply on her Tumblr page in 2018. She said: “I went vegan like four years ago. There were a lot of reasons. I love animals and I just think there’s no point in creating something out of an animal when the animal is already there. Leave animals alone. Damn.”¹Tumblr. 2018. Available: https://eilish.tumblr.com/post/171869842469/when-did-you-go-vegan-and-why-love-you-my-angel [Accessed 16 May 2026].

The superstar often uses her social media platform to promote veganism and animal rights. She took to Instagram to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Meat Free Mondays and the singer-songwriter slammed the meat and dairy industry in a 2019 Instagram story shared with her 26m followers, which conveyed the message that ‘one person’ can make a difference.

Her post was as a result of witnessing video footage from the investigation of Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana, which showed workers physically abusing newborn calves. She commented: “If you can watch the videos that I just posted and not give a f*ck that it’s YOU contributing by LITERALLY EATING the creatures that are being fully tortured just for your pleasure, I feel sorry for you.”²Foreman, P. 2023. Is Billie Eilish Vegan? Everything She’s Said About The Movement. Plant Based News. Available: https://plantbasednews.org/news/celebrities/billie-eilish-vegan/ [Accessed 16 May 2026].

See the full Viva! and Fair Oaks footage here and the Fair Oaks full video here.

In 2026, Eilish caused a furore online by claiming that you can’t eat meat and love animals at the same time in a video interview with Elle:

“Eating meat is inherently wrong… ‘I love all animals so much and I eat meat’… you just can’t do both, sorry.”³Elle.com. 2026. Billie Eilish talks Astrology, Dragons, and Her Next Album. Available: https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a71142286/billie-eilish-ask-me-anything-video/ [Accessed 16 May 2026].