Miley Cyrus is on a mission, not just to campaign and advocate for LGBT and the homeless people, but for everyone to be confident and accepting of themselves. The star however, shared that sometimes she still feels uncertain when advising teens to be themselves, especially since she knows not everyone have the same circumstances as her to be authentic. She also said she underwent instances where she just follows people’s advices even though they are not to her liking, because she does not know better.

“Miley just being Miley” did not happen overnight, since she started out as Disney star. With so many eyes on her and people around her advising her to do many things, the now very outspoken and authentic star shared to Time Magazine that she once did not know better too, so she just followed. She said while she was still doing “Hannah Montana,” the Disney television series that launched her into fame and made her a household name, she allowed “a bunch of old men in suits” to just tell her what to do and look.

She recounted an event when she came from one “Hannah Montana” summer hiatus with braces on and was asked to immediately take them off. She explained that she just followed the order and now regretted that decision. Had she been the woman that she is now, with her own thought process and values, she shared that she would have told her handlers off. She shared that normal 14-year-old have braces so Hannah Montana should have been allowed to wear braces and be more relatable to the viewers. She shared that she certainly did not know better, being a kid from Nashville and having a beauty queen as her grandma.

She may be very confident now and would not take the time of the day to let the judgments of others affect her, but she shared that she still feels for her fans. She shared that whenever she tells them to be themselves, she still feels a bit of uncertainty, knowing that their circumstances can be very different from hers, and they can suffer from real harm just by voicing out who they want to be. She said a transgender kid who follows her advice may end up homeless.

“I hope more kids don’t do what I did and sit in their room and cry, thinking ‘I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be,’” she shared. “But when I tell kids sometimes, ‘Just be yourself,’ I feel like, ‘I hope you can do that, can you really do that?’”she added.

Fighting for rights of the LGBT and the homeless youth has been her loudest advocacies to date. This is why she established that “Happy Hippie Foundation.” She recently told Paper Magazine, where she posed naked with her pet pig that the country should not keep “noticing these kids too late.” She shared that she noticed a lot of people ignoring the plight of these homeless people while they live their lives in luxury.

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