Miley Cyrus Discusses Being Pansexual
Posted on Tue Oct 11th, 2016 1:30pm PDT By X17 Staff
Don't put her in a box!
Miley Cyrus has been open about her sexual fluidity, so it's no surprise she just revealed to Variety that she identifies as pansexual.
"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 … My eyes started opening in the fifth or sixth grade. My first relationship in my life was with a chick," she revealed.
So how did she discover she was attracted to people of all genders and sexes?
"I went to the LGBTQ center here in L.A., and I started hearing these stories. I saw one human in particular who didn’t identify as male or female. Looking at them, they were both: beautiful and sexy and tough but vulnerable and feminine but masculine. And I related to that person more than I related to anyone in my life," she recounted. "Even though I may seem very different, people may not see me as neutral as I feel. But I feel very neutral. I think that was the first gender-neutral person I’d ever met. Once I understood my gender more, which was unassigned, then I understood my sexuality more," she added.
Her new gig on The Voice has made her parents realize what important work she's doing by speaking out about LGBTQ rights. "On The Voice, this young girl started crying when she left, because I’m the reason she came out. My mom started crying. She was like, ‘I’m so sorry about the way I was when you were that age and coming out.’ She never understood me until she saw that girl who couldn’t be herself. It was very cool," she shared.
Good thing Liam Hemsworth isn't the jealous type, because he'd have a lot of people to worry about!