Miley Cyrus is opening up about how internet shaming still affects her body image.
“I’ve had enough memes of me that, you know, there was a couple that were about my body,” the “Malibu” singer told Monica Lewinsky on an episode of her “Reclaiming” podcast earlier this week. “That was in 2013 and people were putting my head on, you know, different, very unattractive things. And I still see that when I put on a bathing suit to this day.”
“I wear very ― you would never think ― very modest bathing suits,” Cyrus shared. “And we actually just went on a trip. It was a whole girls trip and everyone else had on a string bikini except me. I was in, like, shorts, you know. I wore ― I don’t even know if people wear tankinis anymore ― I was wearing a tank top like an old lady.”
“You’re bringing them back!” Lewinsky shared.
“I was trying to bring it back,” Cyrus said. “And my sister goes, ‘You know you’re you ― so this is cool ― like, I guess this is in now, you’re making this cool. But like you know this is what like a grandma wears to the beach.’”
“And it just hit me like, ‘Oh, I’m still so insecure about those memes about my body,’” Cyrus explained.
Cyrus has shared before that her time as a child star on the hit Disney show “Hannah Montana,” also contributed to lasting body image issues.
“From the time I was 11, it was, ‘You’re a pop star! That means you have to be blond, and you have to have long hair, and you have to put on some glittery tight thing,‘” the actor told Marie Claire in 2015. “Meanwhile, I’m this fragile little girl playing a 16-year-old in a wig and a ton of makeup. It was like ‘Toddlers & Tiaras.’”
“I was told for so long what a girl is supposed to be from being on that show,” Cyrus shared, adding that she “was made to look like someone that I wasn’t.”
“Which probably caused some body dysmorphia because I had been made pretty every day for so long, and then when I wasn’t on that show, it was like, ‘Who the fuck am I?’”
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