Singer Miley Cyrus has comes out as bisexual in Paper Magazine. Though not explicity labeling herself as such, she says that she loves women just as much as she loves men and has had serious relationships with women that the media has not paid as much attention to as those she has had with men.
She says she has come to consider her own sexuality — even her own gender identification — fluid. “I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn't involve an animal and everyone is of age. Everything that's legal, I'm down with. Yo, I'm down with any adult — anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me,” she says. “I don't relate to being boy or girl, and I don't have to have my partner relate to boy or girl.” She says she's had romantic entanglements with women that were just as serious as the ones (Liam Hemsworth, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Nick Jonas) that ended up in Us Weekly. “I've had that,” she admits. “But people never really looked at it, and I never brought it into the spotlight.”
Cyrus first came to the realization about her feelings towards men and women when she was 14. She shared those feelings with her mother who expressed concern initially but ultimately came to accept her:
She recalls confessing to her mother, at age 14, that she had romantic feelings toward women. “I remember telling her I admire women in a different way. And she asked me what that meant. And I said, I love them. I love them like I love boys,” she says. “And it was so hard for her to understand. She didn't want me to be judged and she didn't want me to go to hell. But she believes in me more than she believes in any god. I just asked for her to accept me. And she has.” These days, Cyrus only wants to grant others the same clemency.
She adds, “As long as you're not hurting anyone. Your choices are your choices.”
