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Teen star Billie Eilish on therapy, her boyfriend and how fame has changed her

She is the home-schooled 17-year-old pop superstar who makes her Glastonbury debut tomorrow. Billie Eilish tells Decca Aitkenhead how success has altered her life — for better and for worse

PORTRAIT OF BILLIE EILISH BY JUCO FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE. HAIR: JOSEPH CHASE. MAKE-UP: ROB RUMSEY. STYLING: SAMANTHA BURKHART. SHORTS AND TOP BY SIES MARJAN. TRAINERS BY NIKE. JEWELLERY BY BVLGARI. COVER IMAGE: JACKET BY ETAI DRORI. JEWELLERY BY BVLGARI AND LYNN BAN
Decca Aitkenhead
| The Sunday Times
The Times

When teenagers dream of becoming pop stars, I imagine the scene they picture is pretty much this. A matt-black Dodge Challenger pulls up for a photo shoot in a fashionably obscure Los Angeles neighbourhood. A documentary film crew is poised at the studio door to capture its arrival. Inside, a dozen or so creatives wearing baseball caps and black arrange vegan snacks among the vintage vinyl and French fashion magazines; racks of jewellery and rails of designer clothes and shoes fill another entire room. Everyone resembles an ironic extra from Wayne’s World, except for the silver-haired man in a suit guarding the diamonds, who looks as if he’s stepped off the set of The Sopranos.

We’re all waiting for Billie Eilish, the singer