Harper’s Bazaar cover
Cyrus appears on the cover of the February 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine. She talks about her semi-nude Vanity Fair photo, pressures of being in the spotlight, and her movie The Last Song.
I got on the plane [to Georgia], and I was lying in my mom’s lap and crying and saying, “I’m so happy to be getting out of L.A. [In Tybee, GA] I went out every night with my friends. I did karaoke. I danced. All this stuff would’ve been such a big deal in Los Angeles: Who’s she with? Why is she dancing? I felt so alive and real. It’s so much easier to know who you are when there aren’t a thousand people telling you who they think you are. I felt like I was really figuring myself out. Usually I have someone whispering in my ear, but I was on my own.