The life of Miley Cyrus

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From being a Disney child actor to a cannabis advocate and a fierce champion of the LGBTQ+ rights, Miley Cyrus is all about breaking down barriers.   This is her story.

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00:00Hopefully I can break down people's walls that have been built up around

00:04Sexuality because I'm obviously not too embarrassed to talk about these things

00:22As long as I'm with you guys and you guys are loving the music and singing along that's my piece that's my bliss

00:27That's my purpose

00:30I

01:00I

01:30I

01:39Hey, I'm Miley Cyrus, and I'm 12 years old. What do you mean? You can't go? I can't help it

01:44It's Jackson's birthday, and we're having a party and I mean wait a minute

02:00I

02:04Love going to work with Miley she's a

02:07Amazing young lady got a great deal of talent, and she's my little girl, so it's the best of both worlds

02:30I

02:33I'm like am I gonna be Hannah today or my Miley today cuz I really don't want to put the wig on you know

02:37It's like I'm not really in the mood today

02:39Or some days. I'm like. I don't want to get up and don't want to wash my hair

02:42So I'm like I want to be Hannah

02:44so much easier

02:46No, but I guess it sometimes. I do and like I think this is really gonna

02:51Kind of help the confusion. I think this is gonna kind of really set me apart

03:00I

03:02I

03:29Inspiration was a lot of

03:32Just being able to write

03:34Without having to say oh, I can't on I can't or can say this and what the rules are there was really no boundaries

03:40And I think this just shows people who I am because I could have taken it and ran with it

03:44And I just I did what I thought was right for me and for my fans

03:47I

03:58Was really hard every day from like 11 to 18 spending I didn't get a school escape like most people nothing

04:03I went to work with my dad

04:04That's why I like as soon as I turned 18 you guys wonder why I was like twerking at Juicy J shows

04:09I just spent 10 years every day with my dad and grandma

04:12I'll never say nothing bad about Molly because I know she's smart and I know she's talented and

04:17I know that she's had to go to drastic measures to try to make her point. Leave me alone. I'm not Hannah Montana anymore

04:24I want to grow up. So if she had to go to those extremes that evidently worked for her

04:28I

04:39Basically went to two or three years where I wouldn't wear

04:43Shorts, I stopped wearing like skirts on stage all this because after the VMAs and I had on my cute little new bodysuit

04:51Everyone started comparing me to a turkey

04:58I

05:05There's so much attention on me and everything that I kind of say and that I do and I think if there's that

05:10Conversation instead of it just being like can you believe what you work and you believe it's down the stage can actually be about

05:15Awareness and prevention and getting into kind of young people's brains and getting to understand sexuality and how to be safe

05:28The happy hippie foundation primarily supports the online groups for trans and non-binary teens and preteens

05:35For so many youth these groups are the only space young people can truly be themselves

05:58I think it's a great way to get involved

06:09You can't always get what you want and happy hippies we adjust and we accept

06:17Everyone who they are and so Donald Trump I accept you

06:28I

06:59I

07:12Was just talking yesterday about why our bad habits so easy and good habits are so hard

07:18I know I have a I have them

07:21Some chocolate chip cookies downstairs with peanut butter and they call my name

07:28I

07:58You

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