Miley Cyrus: I'm pansexual, 'change my style every two weeks'

With one word, Miley Cyrus deepened her individuality — and her dating pool.
“I’m pansexual,” the 22-year-old singer says in the October issue of Elle UK, on sale Thursday.
The term covers the sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity. In other words, the button- and tongue-pushing pop queen’s bedroom comes with an all-access pass.
“Calling oneself pansexual is opening up to every human possibility,” says Jennifer Bass, communications director at the Kinsey Institute, a longtime temple of sex research, in Bloomington, Ind.
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 Miley Cyrus speaks onstage during the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards held at Microsoft Theater on August 30, 2015 in Los Angeles.

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Miley Cyrus speaks onstage during the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards held at Microsoft Theater on August 30, 2015 in Los Angeles.

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“It’s an attempt to be inclusive and to step outside of conventional categories people are put into,” she adds.
And the fearless Twerking Girl said as much in a Paper mag interview, without using the actual term “pansexual.”
The word, which is relatively under-the-radar if you’re not a sex researcher, sends a message as clear and direct as a wrecking ball. While bisexuality suggests two genders, Cyrus’s latest personal label of choice is gender-blind.
Are you straight? Gay? Bi? Questioning? Transitioning? Let’s party.

Actor Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus arrive at the premiere of Touchstone Picture's "The Last Song" in 2010.

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Cyrus is open to men (like hunky actor and ex-fiance Liam Hemsworth). And women (like stunning model Stella Maxwell, who she’s romanced). As well as transgender men and women who may not even identify as male or female (stay tuned). Bottom line: Former Disney star joneses for everyone.
And, yes, pansexuality is a thing. There’s even a flag for it — horizontal stripes in pink, yellow and blue — which has been waved since about 2010.

The label isn’t new, but in the age of the Millenial, in which individuality looms XXL, it’s coming out of the shadows.

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While there are no hard statistics on pansexuality, experts say a broad ballpark figure could be between 1 and 2 percent of the general population.
“It would be a small portion of those who might have thought of themselves as bisexual at one time,” says Virginia psychologist and certified sex therapist Geoffrey Michaelson.
“A pansexual might think the term bisexual is limiting and not inclusive of their ability to have love for and sex with a transman or transfemale. They feel open to all.”

Pansexual flag

Like Cyrus. The pop performer joins Texas legislator Mary Gonzalez, 32, who traded her bisexual label for a pansexual one three years ago.
“As I started to recognize the gender spectrum and dated along the gender spectrum, I was searching for words that connected to that reality, for words that embraced the spectrum,” Gonzalez explained in 2012.

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Still, it’s a bold declaration by Cyrus, who’s never been shy about discussing her own sexuality going every which way.

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“I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age,” she said in the summer issue of Paper, out a couple months ago.

“Everything that’s legal, I’m down with,” she added. “Yo, I’m down with any adult — anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me. I don’t relate to being boy or girl, and I don’t have to have my partner relate to boy or girl.”

In Elle UK, Cyrus says that she’s “very open” to her pansexuality. “But I’m not in a relationship. I’m 22, I’m going on dates, but I change my style every two weeks, let alone who I’m with.”

Indeed, change is a constant for one-time “Hannah Montana” star who emceed Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards in a parade of freewheeling — and at times freakish — outfits that screamed anything goes. Make that, everything goes.

Stella Maxwell and Miley Cyrus. Image from Miley Cyrus instagram page.

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“What Miley’s saying is, ‘Don’t pigeonhole me. I’m an individual,’” Michaelson says. “That’s part of her fantastic appeal as a person and as a human being. She’s thinking outside of categories and bringing her individuality to the sexual arena.

“That’s pretty good for our tolerance and our compassion toward people who are different from us,” he adds. “Under it all, Miley’s simply saying, ‘I’m me.’”

And she used the VMAs as a platform for others who just want to be themselves. She ended the broadcast with a performance of her new song “Dooo It!” that was introduced by a group of transgender young people.

And to anyone who thinks Cyrus’ all-inclusive sexual appetite amounts to gluttony, Michaelson says, “She’s not being greedy. She’s just being Miley.”

Miley Cyrus: 'I don’t relate to being boy or girl'

Miley Cyrus has revealed that she told her mum she was bisexual at the age of 14. The singer also claimed that her religious parents, who she describes at one point as “conservative ass motherfuckers”, found it difficult to accept at first.

“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,” Miley said to Paper Mag.

The Wrecking Ball star, who was breaking out as Disney star Hannah Montana at the time, added: “It was so hard for her to understand. She didn’t want me to be judged and she didn’t want me to go to hell. But she believes in me more than she believes in any god. I just asked for her to accept me. And she has.”

Back in May, Cyrus gave an interview to promote her Happy Hippie Foundation, which strives to help homeless and LGBT youth, in which she said that not all of her relationships had been “straight, heterosexual ones”.

But in this most recent interview, Cyrus explains that she is open to a variety of sexual relationships. She said: “I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age. Everything that’s legal, I’m down with. Yo, I’m down with any adult - anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me. I don’t relate to being boy or girl, and I don’t have to have my partner relate to boy or girl.”

Cyrus adds that she’s had past relationships with women, but that they haven’t been brought into the media spotlight like her relationships with men.

Elsewhere in the interview, Cyrus says that she was inspired to set up a homeless charity after accepting the huge disparity between her life and the lives of others. She said: “I can’t drive by in my fucking Porsche and not fucking do something. I see it all day: people in their Bentleys and their Rolls and their Ubers, driving past these vets who have fought for our country, or these young women who have been raped. I was doing a show two nights ago, and I was wearing butterfly nipple pasties and butterfly wings. I’m standing there with my tits out, dressed like a butterfly. How the fuck is that fair? How am I so lucky?”

Miley Cyrus Biography

Famous as : Actress, singer
Birth Name : Destiny Hope Cyrus
Birth Date : November 23, 1992
Birth Place : Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Claim to Fame : As Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana in TV series "Hannah Montana" (2006)

Born to country singer-actor Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife Leticia "Tish" Cyrus, she was given the name Destiny Hope Cyrus upon her parents' thought that she would accomplish great things in life. Frequently smiling as a youngster, she then obtained the nickname of "Miley," which was directed from the word "smiley." And so, people began to notice the young, beautiful, and talented star simply as Miley Cyrus.

She would later on change her birth name to Miley Ray Cyrus in honor of her father. Born in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville, on November 23, 1992, the girl was raised on her parents' farm in the backwoods of Nashville. She initially attended Heritage Middle School before then had a private tutor. She has a younger brother, Braison, and a younger sister, Noah Lindsey Cyrus, who is also an actress, in addition to two older half-brothers, Christopher Cody and Trace, and an older half-sister named Brandi.

Finding herself interested in acting at mere age of nine, Miley had her acting debut in an episode of her father's television series "Doc" in 2003, playing the guest role of a girl named Kylie. The same year she landed a small role in Tim Burton's film direction "Big Fish" in which she played the Young Ruthie.

Developing an interest in music prior to her acting career, Miley who began writing songs and learning to sing while still a preteen, got a chance to explore her music skills as she was tapped to be featured in Rhonda Vincent's music video for "If Heartaches Have Wings" and to appear on "Colgate Country Showdown," a TV program which her father was hosting.

It was not until she was cast in the title role of the Disney Channel's original series, "Hannah Montana", that she gained her nationwide popularity for playing a teenage girl leading a double life. She was 12 when she came to the audition of the TV series. Besides landing her eyes on the titular character, Miley aimed for the best friends role but because she was deemed too small by the executives, she failed the first round. Nevertheless, the execs changed their mind and cast the girl who "loves every minute of her life" as Hannah Montana.

In the TV show she plays Miley Stewart, an average teenage girl dealing with school, friends, siblings, and all the other peculiarity of life for a 14-years-old and all at once as Hannah Montana, a multi-platinum pop star whose career was guided by her successful songwriter father Robby Stewart who had to keep her "double faces" secret from the public other than her close friends and family.
Debuted on Disney Channel on March 24, 2006, the children's TV series quickly became an immediate success among viewers and was soon followed with the release of a soundtrack CD, "Hannah Montana," on October 24 via Walt Disney Records. The set featured Miley as Hannah Montana, singing eight songs from the show along with five related tracks, including a duet with her father Billy Ray on "I Learned from You" which appeared the last on the album. The compilation was another success, chosen the eighth best selling album of the year in the U.S., with nearly 2 million copies sold and approximately 3.2 million copies sold worldwide.

The actress-singer spent the rest of the year serving as the opening act for the girl group The Cheetah Girls on 20 dates of their 39-cities tour. In March the following year, "Hannah Montana" was reissued in a special edition featuring a bonus DVD, not long after the show's theme song, "The Best of Both Worlds," was released as a single.

Miley had her first LP, a double album titled "Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus," hit the market on June 26, 2007. Debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 326,000 copies sold during its first week of sales, the set sold about 1.5 million copies worldwide by mid-year and thus was certified Platinum for sales of 1.5 million copies.

In the peak of her career, scandal hit when a series of her racy pictures leaked out on the Internet. As a role model for teens, Miley was criticized for setting a bad example. This would be put on scrutiny more when she posed for Vanity Fair half-naked although she apologized later on.

Due to the enormous success, Miley was granted the title of the 59th "Most Influential People" list made and released by Time magazine in May 2008 as well as the #35 "2008 Forbes Celebrity 100" with an estimated earnings of $25 million during June 2007 to June 2008. Her wax figure on Madame Tussauds was also unveiled in March 2008.

Miley's career was just in the making though. A plan on big screen version of Hannah Montana was quickly developed and Miley, reprising her role will star in "Hannah Montana: The Movie". Before the movie project came to public, Miley released a second studio album called "Breakout" which first single "7 Things" made an impressive chart performance. A song about an attack to her ex, it entered at #84 on Billboard Hot 100 before climbing up to #10 in its third week.
During her Disney days, Miley met other child stars like the Jonas Brothers, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato. She dated the young JoBros, Nick Jonas. After splitting from Nick, she moved on with underwear model Justin Gaston but their relationship didn't last long. In 2009 while filming "The Last Song", she met Liam Hemsworth and later became his girlfriend. In June 2012, the couple announced their engagement. Though being repeatedly hit with breakup rumors, they were still together by mid-year of 2013.

Two years after "Breakout", Miley released a more mature album appropriately titled "Can't Be Tamed" in an effort to shed her squeaky-clean image. It peaked at No. 3 on Hot 200 with the title track reaching No. 8 on Hot 100. Then, came a tour to promote the album and so she was busy traveling North America for live concerts.

She was back on the big screen with "LOL" and "So Undercover" in 2012, but it didn't really perform well partly because of the lack of promotion on the movie studio's part. Slowly but sure, her new album came together. While working on it, she treated fans by guesting on other artists' songs including Snoop Dogg's "Ashtrays and Heartbreaks" and will.i.am's "Fall Down".

Her fourth album is yet to be titled, but already she offered a solid introduction with lead single "We Can't Stop", which became her second-highest charting single after 2009's "Party in the U.S.A." The music video broke the Vevo record for most views in 24 hours, garnering 10.7 million views and beating out Justin Bieber's "Beauty and a Beat" release with 10.6 million views.