Miley Cyrus opens up about why she hasn't had children and has no immediate plans to
has opened up about why she hasn't had children in a new interview for The New York Times.
The singer, 32, revealed she isn't 'passionate' about motherhood on used a conversation about celebrity make-up brands to explain her position on the subject.
She said: 'My stepdad asked me the other day, "Why are you the only one without a makeup line?"'
Miley continued: 'I was like, "'Cause that's not my passion". He goes, "That's the right answer." And it made so much sense. It's like, "I don't have a makeup line because I'm not a makeup artist."
'I feel that way about motherhood. It's just never been something that I've been overly passionate about.'
'It's a lot of responsibility and devotion and energy, and if you're not passionate about that, I don't know how you do sleepless nights and 18 years of what my mom dealt with.
'And when I say 18 years, I mean 33, 'cause I'm still a baby. So I've never felt the burn, you know? And I think for me, the burn is everything.'
Miley previously spoke about her position on children in an interview with SiriusXM Hits 1's The Morning Mash Up, confessing that starting a family has never been a priority for her.
She said: 'I never really cared that much. I am sure that my fans are going to pull up me at 12 saying "Oh I want to have kids" but like I don't, as a 27-year-old woman that would have a little bit more of a realistic idea of what they want. That has never been kind of my priority.'
The singer added that if she ever was to become a mother, she'd prefer to adopt due to environmental considerations and the limited resources on earth.
Miley said: 'I actually think in a way, just looking at our climate change and our water and food it feels like to me if anything to me if anything that I would like to take someone that is on the earth. I love adoption and I think that's really amazing.
'I definitely don't think, I do not shame anyone that wants to have children. I just personally don't believe that's a priority for me in my life.
'For me I don't just really think about marriage and things like this anymore.'
Miley's conversation on motherhood comes after she broke her silence on her father Billy Ray Cyrus's shock new romance with Elizabeth Hurley, saying it has enabled her to love both her parents 'as individuals' and that seeing them happy has helped her finally 'grow up'.
She added: 'As I've gotten older, I respect my parents as individuals instead of as parents because, you know, my mom really loved my dad for her whole life.
'I took on some of my mom's hurt as my own, because it hurt her more than it hurt me as an adult. So I owned a lot of her pain as mine.'
Speaking candidly on The Interview, a New York Times podcast, Miley said: 'But now that my mom is so in love with my stepdad, Dom, who I completely adore, and now that I see my dad finding happiness outside of that too, I can love them both as individuals instead of as a kind of parental pairing. I'm being an adult about it.'
Miley's mom Tish, 58, split from country singer Billy Ray in 2022 after 28 years of marriage. Their divorce was finalised in 2023 and she went on to marry actor Dominic Purcell in August the same year.
Giving more insight about her feelings on her dad's new romance Miley said: 'At first, it's hard because the little kid in you reacts before the adult in you can go, yes, that's your dad - but that's just another person that deserves to be in his bliss and to be happy.
'So my adult self has caught up. My child self has caught up.'
Billy Ray, 63, was first linked to actress Elizabeth, 59, in April this year, following the end of his short-lived marriage to 36-year-old singer Firerose.
The pair reportedly bonded over their shared love of horses and rural life, with a source at the time saying: 'It's early days but they've genuinely hit it off.'
Reflecting on the relentless scrutiny surrounding her famous family Miley said: 'The thing I like about the new way that the world works is that everything is so fast, it's forgotten really quickly.
'In the Nineties when something happened... it would just last for a year. Now it's just gone.
'Social media moves so fast. It just eats everything. Something may seem really important for a couple hours but then there's a meme that goes viral - somebody scats at Walmart or something - and that becomes the next thing.'
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