Miley Cyrus Talks ‘Complex’ Marriage to Liam Hemsworth, ‘Hannah Montana’ and More in ‘Elle’: 5 Things We Learned

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Miley Cyrus Talks ‘Complex’ Marriage to Liam Hemsworth, ‘Hannah Montana’ and More in ‘Elle’: 5 Things We Learned

Love, loss and alter egos. Miley Cyrus dished on her marriage to Liam Hemsworth, the devastating aftermath of the Woosley fires, Hannah Montana and more in her August Elle cover story. “I feel the most powerful I’ve ever felt. I like the way being sexual makes me feel, but I’m never performing for men,” the 26-year-old musician told the magazine in the interview, published online on Thursday, July 11. “They shouldn’t compliment themselves to think that the decisions I’m making in my career would have anything to do with them getting pleasure. I don’t think that because some guy thinks I’m hot he’s going to buy my record. It doesn’t help me.” Cyrus and Hemsworth, 29, tied the knot in December after dating on and off for nearly a decade. “I’m in a hetero relationship, but I still am very sexually attracted to women,” the Disney alum admitted to Elle. “People become vegetarian for health reasons, but bacon is still f--king good, and I know that.” [jwplayer Mza5kjff-l3ahXupL] Cyrus previously credited the couple losing their Malibu home during the Woolsey Canyon wildfire a month before their wedding as the push they needed to take the next step in their relationship. “After the Woolsey fire, I thought about how we helped more than 120 families who lost their homes,” she told Elle, referring to her Happy Hippie foundation. “We’ve served nearly 1,300 homeless kids in Hollywood every year since 2014. And last year, we helped 270 kids find housing and provided 32,000 meals. That won’t burn down. That helped me become much more disconnected from things. … With natural disasters, you don’t get a choice. You surrender.” Scroll through for five things we learned about Cyrus in Elle:

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Inside Her ‘Complex’ Marriage to Liam Hemsworth

“I think it’s very confusing to people that I’m married. But my relationship is unique,” she explained to the magazine. “And I don’t know that I would ever publicly allow people in there because it’s so complex, and modern, and new that I don’t think we’re in a place where people would get it. I mean, do people really think that I’m at home in a f--king apron cooking dinner?”

Cyrus added that she made a “partner decision.” 

“This is the person I feel has my back the most,” she said. “I definitely don’t fit into a stereotypical wife role. I don’t even like that word.”

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How Her Parents’ Marriage Inspires Her

The musician pointed out that her parents, Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus, have also always been “partners.”

“That’s why I like that word. ‘Husband and wife’ sounds like a cigarette commercial from the ’50s to me,” Cyrus explained. “I think about the song ‘Stand By Your Man’ a lot, and how it was one of my mom’s favorites. Did she even realize what it’s saying? Like, he’s going to get drunk and cheat on you, and when he comes home, you stand by your man because at the end of the day, he loves you. He’s just a man. He just had to have sex so bad that he forgot about your feelings.”

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New Music Is Coming

Cyrus revealed several details about the music on her upcoming album, She Is Miley Cyrus. 

“‘She’ does not represent a gender. ‘She’ is not just a woman. ‘She’ doesn’t refer to a vagina,” the “We Can’t Stop” singer explained. “‘She’ is a force of nature. ‘She’ is power. ‘She’ can be anything you want to be, therefore, ‘she’’ is everything. ‘She’ is the super she. ‘She’ is the she-ro. ‘She’ is the She-E-O.”

Cyrus teased one track called “Bad Karma.” 

“I have a new song called ‘Bad Karma,’ but there is no such thing as karma. There’s just cause and effect,” she told the magazine. “I don’t believe that everyone gets theirs.” 

She gave even more details about an upcoming song titled “Never Be Me.” 

“The chorus says, ‘If you’re looking for faithful, that’ll never be me. If you’re looking for stable, that’ll never be me. If you’re looking for someone that’ll be all that you need, that’s never going to be me,’” Cyrus revealed to Elle. “When I first played it for [producer] Mark Ronson, he was like, ‘You can’t say that. You have guy fans, and they’re not going to understand what you mean. I don’t even understand what you mean.’ And I’m like, ‘“But you wouldn’t say anything about it if a man came in and played that record.’ And then two days later, he hit me up and he’s like, ‘You’re absolutely right. I totally get your perspective.’” 

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How She Became Ashley O

“They gave me the script and were like, ‘Let us know if you’re interested,’” Cyrus explained about her popular Black Mirror season 5 episode. “And I read it and was like, ‘It’s not even if I’m interested or not. It’s just that no one else can play this because this is my life. Like, you just took my life.’” 

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When She Knew She Was Done With ‘Hannah Montana’

Cyrus starred as the title character on Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana for four seasons from 2006 to 2011. She told Elle it was time to stop making the series “the minute” she had sex.

“Once I was 18 because it felt ridiculous,” Cyrus explained. “I was kind of like, I can’t put the f--king wig on again. It got weird. It just felt like… I was grown up. … One time I went backstage at Disneyland, and Peter Pan was smoking a cigarette. And I was like, ‘That’s me. That’s the kind of dreams I’m crushing.’” 

Cyrus also referred to a 2010 viral video of her taking a hit from a bong. “That’s how everyone felt with the bong video, but I’m not a Disney mascot,” she told Elle. “I’m a person.” 

She concluded that she is “not ashamed” of the series anymore. “It’s pretty cool when you hear Cardi B was listening to Hannah Montana when she was in high school,” Cyrus said. “That s--t makes me happy.”