Noah Cyrus felt ”stripped of [her] identification” as a toddler.
The 20-year-old singer has not too long ago opened up about her struggles rising up within the shadow of her well-known older sister Miley Cyrus, and admitted she felt like nobody cared about her as a result of they solely needed to speak about her sibling.
She informed Apple Music: ”I discuss my physique dysmorphia and I discuss my struggles rising up because the world noticed it as ‘Miley Cyrus’ little sister’.
”No one would select to be known as anyone else’s little sister and I used this…. So it is like if you’re seeing anyone and you are like, ‘Oh, you are so and so’s brother, proper?’ But you recognize who they’re.
”You’ve been speaking to them already. There’s a distinction. It’s not, ‘I do know you, however aren’t you additionally so and so’s little brother?’
”It can be, ‘Your Miley Cyrus’ little sister. You’re Hannah Montana’s little sister.’
”It would not be a query, it might be an announcement after they got here as much as me. ‘Hannah Montana’ got here out in 2006 or 2007. So that up till I made my very own identify, which was the reasoning why.
”And it actually stripped me of my identification as slightly child. And that is what it felt like. Because it felt like nobody offers a… about me, myself.”
Noah not too long ago admitted she ”all the time believed” she’d be in Miley’s shadow and her worries had been a ”massive half” of her life for years.
Discussing her new monitor ‘Young & Sad’, she stated: ”That was one thing I heard my entire life, each single day, my entire life. It was both that or that I wasn’t sufficient in a roundabout way, whether or not it was the best way I look or the best way I’m. Like I stated the opposite day, generally I really feel like I do not even breathe proper generally.
”Basically, that’s what the music is about, and I simply needed to open up about that after and for all, as a result of that is been a giant a part of my life, and I most likely will not speak about it anymore. I simply needed to place it out.