(X) Miley Cyrus made it clear on multiple occasions that, although she’s been in heterosexual relationships, she still identifies as queer

Miley Cyrus has always been outspoken about her love life and sexuality.

The “Flowers” singer has had high-profile romances with multiple exes, both men and women. Although her most publicized relationships have been with famous men like Liam Hemsworth, Nick Jonas and Cody Simpson, Cyrus — who identifies as queer — has never shied from expressing her attraction to women.

In fact, she’s spoken at length about her pansexuality in various candid interviews throughout her career — and has even been photographed more than once during moments of intense PDA with famous women.

In July 2015, Cyrus was spotted kissing a former Victoria’s Secret Angel, and weeks before ending her marriage to Hemsworth, the “Jaded” hitmaker was photographed in Italy kissing Brody Jenner’s ex-wife Kaitlynn Carter. (Not to mention Cyrus’ first kiss was with a girl in middle school.)

Since December 2021, Cyrus has been dating drummer Maxx Morando, whom she recounted meeting on a blind date in a May 2023 interview with British Vogue.

From opening up about heterosexual and queer love to expressing her sexual desires with her family, here is everything Cyrus has said about non-conforming love.

She told her mom at 14: “I admire women in a different way”

The former Disney Channel star recalled a conversation with her mother, Tish Cyrus, about her sexuality at age 14. “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.’ And it was so hard for her to understand,” Miley told Paper magazine in June 2015.

“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,” she continued, later adding, “I don’t relate to being boy or girl, and I don’t have to have my partner relate to boy or girl.”

In 2015, Cyrus came out as pansexual; that same year, she dated Patrick Schwarzenegger for five months before calling it quits. Then, shortly after they broke up, Cyrus was seen kissing model Stella Maxwell.

“My first relationship in my life was with a chick. I grew up in a very religious Southern family. … Once I understood my gender more, which was unassigned, then I understood my sexuality more. I was like, ‘Oh — that’s why I don’t feel straight and I don’t feel gay. It’s because I’m not,’” she explained.

One of her earliest quotes about her sexuality came in 2013, when she told the Toronto Sun: “Everyone said I was a lesbian but I’m like, ‘Being a lesbian isn’t a bad thing. So if you think I look like I’m a lesbian, I’m not offended. You can call me much worse.’ Being a lesbian is a compliment more than what else they call me.”

She believes in “redefining” what queer love looks like

Cyrus told the Associated Press in 2015 that not all her past relationships were “straight, heterosexual” ones. Though she did not further specify what she meant at the time, the actress elaborated on her romantic preferences years later.

In the months after her December 2018 wedding to Hemsworth, Cyrus made it clear on multiple occasions that, although she was in a heterosexual relationship, she still identifies as queer.

“The reason that people get married sometimes can be old-fashioned, but I think the reason we got married isn’t old-fashioned — I actually think it’s kind of New Age,” she told Vanity Fair for its March 2019 cover story. “We’re redefining, to be f—— frank, what it looks like for someone that’s a queer person like myself to be in a hetero relationship.”

Though she admitted marriage was “kind of out of character for me,” Cyrus still made her stance clear: “Like, who gives a f— if he’s a guy, if I’m a girl, or if he was a woman — who gives a f—? We really are stronger together. One is the loneliest number.”

She doesn’t “fit into a stereotypical wife role”

In July 2019, Cyrus opened up to Elle. “I think it’s very confusing to people that I’m married. But my relationship is unique,” Cyrus said of her and Hemsworth at the time.

“I don’t know that I would ever publicly allow people in there because it’s so complex, and modern, and new that I don’t think we’re in a place where people would get it,” she continued. “I mean, do people really think that I’m at home in a f—— apron cooking dinner? I’m in a hetero relationship, but I still am very sexually attracted to women.”

Cyrus added: “People become vegetarian for health reasons, but bacon is still f—— good, and I know that. I made a partner decision. This is the person I feel has my back the most. I definitely don’t fit into a stereotypical wife role. I don’t even like that word.”