Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato’s friendship goes way back to their days as Disney stars, and it’s been through several ebbs and flows.
The old pals talked about the evolution of their friendship on Instagram Live as part of Cyrus’s new show, Bright Minded: Live With Miley—and they didn’t shy away from the experiences they’ve both been through in the often brutal entertainment industry. Take Cyrus, who revealed she struggled with body image after her performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.
“I basically went through two or three years where I wouldn’t wear shorts. I stopped wearing skirts on stage, all this shit because after the VMAs and I had on my cute little nude bodysuit, everyone started comparing me to a turkey and putting a turkey in my outfit,” she said. “I was just so skinny and so pasty and they kept putting me next to this turkey, and I was feeling so bad on myself that I did not wear a bikini for, like, two years and no one thought that that would ever make me feel some type of way.
“I think what was so hard about it was my brand has always been about being so unapologetically myself and being confident, and the worse thing that I would feel like I would be to my fans is lying or a fraud,” she continued.
Lovato told Cyrus she wished she had known what was going on. “First of all, I’m so sad that you went through that, and I had no idea,” she said. “I wish I could’ve been there, but I didn’t know and I feel like we’ve gone through times where we’re closer and then distant—and that’s fine, that’s what friends do. I just wish I could’ve been there for you. But if that ever fucking happens again, you better call me.”
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