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Miley Cyrus had one of the greatest years of music the previous year. Her single ‘Flowers’ earned the artist’s first no 1 song on Billboard Hot 100 and spent a whopping 10 weeks on the chart. The song also got Cyrus her first Grammy ever!! However, this does not change the beautiful singer that we know. In all her success Miley has maintained her humbleness. Even while accepting her first Grammy award on stage, she delivered a speech not every artist has the guts to deliver! While accepting the award on stage, our bold queen said, “This is amazing but I really hope it doesn’t change anything, because my life was beautiful yesterday.” “Not everyone in the world will get a Grammy but everyone in this world is spectacular, so please don’t think that this is important, even though it’s very important,” she further explained.
Miley Cyrus is arguably the most successful ex-Disney act we have ever seen. Though Hannah Montana was something that made her a household name in the entire world, her discography post-Disney and her incredible stage presence are what made her one of the most talented singers and performers in the world of music right now. Her versatility, her powerful vocals, and her musical talent are not something that everyone possesses, which is why her fandom, the Smiler absolutely obsesses over the star. At the same time, that does not mean that they know everything about her. If you are an ardent Miley fan, let’s test your knowledge with these 8 unknown facts about the ‘Wrecking Ball’ singer.
8 unknown facts about Miley Cyrus
1. Miley Cyrus is not the name she was born with
Would it be crazy if we told you Miley Cyrus was not the real name she was born with? That is actually true. The beloved Hannah Montana was born with the name Destiny Hope Cyrus. In 2008, the music superstar legally changed her name to Miley Ray. Her father, ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ country singer Billy Ray Cyrus once appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and revealed that he and his wife gave their daughter the name because “it was her destiny to bring hope to the world”.
However, later Miley revealed that she did not like the name so she changed it legally in 2008. The name Miley actually came from her childhood name Smiley given by her parents. Her middle name, Ray is in honor of her grandfather, Democratic politician Ronald Ray Cyrus.
2. Her first audition for Hanah Montana was at a really young age
What were we doing when we were 11 years old? Probably playing with our friends, doing school homework, and having fun! Our childhood was completely different than Miley Cyrus who auditioned for Hannah Montana when she was just 11 years old! The Disney teen sitcom Hannah Montana ran from 2006 to 2011, and it initially rejected Miley as the leading character. Reportedly, she first gave auditions when she was 11 years old, but faced rejection. However, she did not give up and persistently sent the audition tapes before finally getting the part at 13 years old. Billy Ray Cyrus was also cast in the role of her father in the show.
3. Miley is pansexual
Pansexuality is a type of sexuality where people get romantically, emotionally, and sexually attracted to other people regardless of their gender or assigned sexual identity. There is a list of celebrities who are open about being pansexual and Miley Cyrus is one of them. She came out publicly in 2015. She clarified that she is actually a pansexual when people kept mislabelling her as bisexual and said she dates all genders. She also identified as gender-fluid.
She gave an interview to Paper Magazine where she shared her coming out to her mother at the age of 14. She said, “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.” “I just asked for her to accept me, and she has,” she continued.
4. Cyrus was born with tachycardia
Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a health condition that causes fast and irregular beating of the heart. In this world, around 2.25 in every 1,000 people are affected by this condition and Miley Cyrus is one of them. She was born with this condition. In ‘Miles To Go,’, her autobiography, Cyrus wrote, “The type of tachycardia I have isn’t dangerous. It won’t hurt me, but it does bother me. There is never a time onstage when I’m not thinking about my heart. My heart rate increases a lot just from going up a flight of stairs.”
We are glad to know that what she has is not dangerous to her health!
5. She hates some of her biggest hits
Every singer has some songs that they don’t like. It might be the cause of them being over-popular or the feeling that they did not give their best in the tracks. Miley Cyrus and her discography are no strangers to this. But who would have thought that the tracks she hates would be some of the most recognizable songs in her discography?
In an event to support her clothing line collaboration with the late fashion designer Max Azria, Miley revealed that she does not like her 2009 iconic hit ‘Party in the USA’ from her debut album ‘The Time of Our Lives’. In a blog, the singer wrote, “I didn’t write it [and] I didn’t expect it to be popular originally. It was just something that I wanted to do and I needed some songs and it turned out for the best.” Then she added that the song was not even her type of music.
Another song that she despises is ‘Wrecking Ball’ one of the fan-favorites. In an interview with The Zach Sang Show, Miley revealed that she does not like ‘Wrecking Ball’. “That’s something you can’t take away, swinging around naked on a wrecking ball lives forever,” she said. “Once you do that [in the way] that I did, it’s forever. I’m never living that down. I will always be the naked girl on a wrecking ball, no matter how much I frolic with emu, I’m always the naked girl on the wrecking ball. [And] I just licked the sledgehammer.” She also said that she had one particular fear regarding the track. She further explained, “I should’ve thought [about] how long that was going to follow me around,” she said. “That’s my worst nightmare is that being played at my funeral…’We’ll always remember Miley’ and then that.”
6. Cyrus founded her own LGBTQ+ youth organization
Miley Cyrus is one of the few celebrities who has always been so open about her feelings, her struggles, and her happiness. She has also come out as a pansexual and gave people the confidence to do the same on multiple occasions. In 2014, she founded the Happy Hippie Foundation, her own LGBTQ+ youth organization that focuses on homelessness issues of LGBTQ+ youth. She launched the foundation after she was moved by the tragic incident of trans teen Leelah Alcorn taking her own life in 2014.
“I never thought it was right that someone would lose their life over not being able to be free,” the ‘Adore You’ singer said. “It really hurt me to know that she didn’t have anyone she could talk to.”
7. Miley does not want children
A lot of people are deciding to stay childless now and Miley Cyrus is one of the supporters of this decision. She is also someone who has the same values. In a candid interview with Elle in 2019, the singer was asked about her thoughts on motherhood and why she is not pursuing one currently. To which the musician replied saying, “We’re expected to keep the planet populated. And when that isn’t a part of our plan or our purpose, there is so much judgment and anger that they try to make and change laws to force it upon you — even if you become pregnant in a violent situation.” “If you don’t want children, people feel sorry for you, like you’re a cold, heartless bitch who’s not capable of love … Why are we trained that love means putting yourself second and those you love first? If you love yourself, then what? You come first,” she continued.
Then she was asked about the decision she wanted to make for herself. She said, “We’re getting handed a piece-of-s— planet, and I refuse to hand that down to my child. Until I feel like my kid would live on an earth with fish in the water, I’m not bringing in another person to deal with that.”
8. Miley had a purity ring
The concept of a purity right might be outdated right now but it was pretty popular among the Disney artists. Miley Cyrus was also one of the child stars who used to wear a “purity ring”, symbolizing she was not going to have sex until she was married.
Since then, she has spoken pretty openly about having sex and describing the act as a “beautiful and magical thing”. She also teased fellow Disney channel child artists The Jonas Brothers about their own rings, joking that it must have felt good when they finally took the rings off.
Knowing these 8 facts definitely makes you a die-hard Miley Cyrus fan. However, if this is the first time you are coming across these unknown facts about the ‘Flowers’ singer, then here is to knowing her better!!!!!
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