Miley Cyrus Reacts to 2009 Paparazzi Photo With Taylor Swift

An image is price 1,000 phrases. According to Miley Cyrus, there’s one specifically that speaks volumes. While wanting again on previous reminiscences for her “Used to Be Young” TikTookay interview collection, Cyrus got here throughout an particularly iconic picture of herself strolling with Taylor Swift, Emily Osment, and Demi Lovato. “This picture has become a meme,” she defined. The meme — which reads “be the Miley of your friend group” — references Cyrus’s super-casual outfit and its direct distinction to her group’s fancy cocktail clothes. “If you guys didn’t know I was bisexual from this damn picture,” she joked, “I don’t know what’s wrong with you.”

After noticing laughter off-camera, Cyrus defended her response, saying she was solely stating the plain and providing a bit extra context. “I mean, hello! Look at ’em,” she stated, flipping the picture round for everybody to see. To her level, the shot reveals Cyrus wearing sweatpants, floppy UGG boots, and a grey cardigan, whereas Swift, Osment, and Lovato wore red-carpet-worthy seems. “I literally think we were leaving the Grammys to go to The Cheesecake Factory,” Cyrus stated. In actuality, the group had been photographed following the 2009 premiere of “Hannah Montana: The Movie.” Still, as Cyrus identified, “These are some classy ladies.”

Cyrus — who presently identifies as queer — got here out as pansexual in 2015. She’s since spoken at size about her previous relationships and sexuality. “My whole life, I didn’t understand my own gender and my own sexuality. I always hated the word ‘bisexual,’ because that’s even putting me in a box. I don’t ever think about someone being a boy or someone being a girl,” she informed Variety in 2016.

In her 2019 Vanity Fair cowl story, Cyrus reiterated that gender is “almost irrelevant” when it comes to her relationships. “People fall in love with people, not gender, not looks, not whatever,” she stated. “What I’m in love with exists on almost a spiritual level.” Cyrus’s sexuality is one thing she’s identified about herself since she was younger, however in accordance to her, the remainder of us most likely ought to’ve caught on rather a lot sooner.