14 DAY TRIAL // Not long ago, Miley Cyrus, the famous Disney singer and songwriter, made the somewhat shocking announcement that she would be taking a break from recording to figure out how her sound needed to change into something more mature and, at the same time, “edgier.” In the meantime, the star is featured in the latest issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine, where she talks things like fame, its downside and her insecurities.
As everybody must know by now, Miley grew up in the spotlight and, while this might seem like every little girl’s dream, it’s far from it in most aspects. Take for instance, she says, her photo for Vanity Fair, which showed her wrapped in a bed sheet, looking over her shoulder at the camera, in what was deemed one of the most inappropriate pics of recent times. Because she was so famous, people saw only the “dirty” side of that image, the singer believes, when it was actually a gorgeous photograph.
People seem to think that, because she’s young and famous, she has certain responsibilities towards her fans. While that may be true, she has to draw the line somewhere, she tells Bazaar. “My job is to be a role model, and that’s what I want to do, but my job isn’t to be a parent. My job isn’t to tell your kids how to act or how not to act, because I’m still figuring that out for myself. So to take that away from me is a bit selfish. Your kids are going to make mistakes whether I do or not. That’s just life,” Miley argues.
Another thing that Miley could have done without is the excessive paparazzi attention derived from her unbelievable popularity. She understands the mechanisms that keep the wheels of the industry in motion, she states, but being constantly put on the hot spot has taken a toll on her life, in the sense that it has made her incredibly insecure about her body. She is, after all, only a teen and, as such, has moments when she’d rather be anyone else than Miley Cyrus.
“I used to ask everyone all day, ‘Do I look pretty?’ I probably asked that question about as many times as I blink,” she says. Eventually, when she left Los Angeles to work on a movie, she got over her issues. “It’s not about how because I started feeling beautiful; it’s just because I was comfortable. I was so used to the paparazzi and the cameras and the ‘What are you wearing?’ and having people stare at me,” the singer and actress explains.