Is Billie Eilish Vegan?
Her Surprising Childhood Story

For Billie Eilish, the vegan lifestyle was normal because she was raised in a vegetarian family.

Her mother, Maggie Baird, forsaken meat and became vegetarian in the 70s when she was a teenager, but her dad, Patric O’Connell, still ate meat when he met his future wife in the 80s. A couple of years later, he jumped on the vegan bandwagon and even today meat remains banned in Billie Eilish’s home.

Finneas O’Connell, Billie’s brother who collaborates on creating lyrics and music, has also followed a plant-based diet for years.

Despite her struggle with iron deficiency, Billie Eilish has never questioned her vegan choices, but she developed a taste of unusual items like coins and jewelry, and blood:

‘’Because I have iron deficiency, s**t tastes good. Do you guys like the taste of blood? I like the taste of pennies, metal, poles and jewelery. Dirty jewellery tastes so good [2].”

When she first started touring, Billie Eilish admits that it was a challenge to stick to a plant-based diet, so she relied on whatever she could buy in venues where she performed, which, in most cases, wasn’t anything glamorous, but it was at least vegan.

The fact that she even unwillingly lost some weight in her early touring days proves that she was and still is serious about her vegan diet.

In the meantime, she hired her own vegan catering company while on tour, which made it so much easier to her and her crew.

For most vegans, honey qualifies as ‘’forbidden fruit”, but like with other things in her life, Billie does veganism on her own terms. She still eats honey to boost her immune system when she’s feeling sick.

Although production of honey doesn’t directly involve animal cruelty, it causes a number of environmental problems.

So, does eating honey still make Billie Eilish vegan? Well, aside from this sweet offence and a couple of other minor lapses, she still identifies as vegan and, according to Billie, her diet remains strictly meat and dairy-free.

Vegans among her fans are hoping that she’ll change her mind and switch to vegan alternatives to honey in the future.

Billie Eiliesh believes that what we choose to eat can have an enormous effect on our planet and that’s what inspired her to team up with Woody Harrleson in supporting Greenpeace and FridaysForFuture in their efforts to stop global warming.

Being a proud vegan, Billie is making a difference and leads by example in speaking up for animals, our planet, and hopefully inspires many to at least reconsider their values.

In 2019 she even hired a company that would help her touring become greener:

“So there are no plastic straws allowed, the fans are going to bring their own water bottles, there’s going to be recycled cans everywhere” – says Eilish.

We also couldn’t help but notice how she often sports green color in her outfits, and even her hair. Maybe we should take that as a subliminal message from Billie.

What makes Billie Eilish vegan is her animal-rights activism and the fact that the majority of her diet is plant-based, but there are still some aspects of her life that are not fully vegan.

But every little step towards cruelty-free world matters, so even if she wears leather shoes or bags occasionally, this fierce young star proves that there is something all of us can do to live a more sustainable and more compassionate life:

 “I understand that meat tastes good.. and I know you think you’re just one person and it ‘won’t change anything if you stop – but that’s ignorant and stupid. If you have half a brain, you should know ‘one person’ adds up. Be smarter.”

 

– Billie Eilish