Miley Cyrus Tells Why She Cries with Happiness and Explains Her Tattoo
1/07/2010 12:53:00 AM
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For Miley Cyrus, tears don't always mean trouble. The 17-year-old found herself crying with joy this summer over the prospect of being out of the spotlight for a while.Cyrus tells the February Harper's Bazaar, out Jan. 12, that on the flight to Tybee Island, Georgia, to film her new movie, The Last Song, she couldn't contain the waterworks.
"I got on the plane [to Georgia], and I was lying in my mom's lap and crying and saying, 'I'm so happy to be getting out of L.A.,' " the singer-actress says. When she got to the small town of Tybee in the Southern state, "I went out every night with my friends. I did karaoke. I danced."
She notes, "All this stuff would've been such a big deal in Los Angeles: Who's she with? Why is she dancing?"
Cyrus says she was thrilled for the chance to be away from the constant scrutiny that comes with being a pop star. "I felt so alive and real. It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are. I felt like I was really figuring myself out. Usually I have someone whispering in my ear, but I was on my own."
But a careful Cyrus also asserts that parents shouldn’t necessarily look to her as the decisive role model for their teen and 'tween children.
"My job isn't to tell your kids how to act or how not to act, because I'm still figuring that out for myself," she says. "So to take that away from me is a bit selfish. Your kids are going to make mistakes whether I do or not. That's just life."
Miley Cyrus Explains Tattoo: “It Reminds Me Not To Take Things For Granted…”
Miley Cyrus is speaking out in the name of body art. The Hannah Montana star, who turned 17 in November, had the words “Just Breathe” etched below her heart in her mother’s handwriting last year. The first snaps of the ink sparked debate between fans of the starlet and their parents, particularly since several U.S. states forbid those under the age of 18 from getting inked.
For her part, Miles insists she didn’t get the tattoo on a whim; it’s a tribute to a dear friend who died of cystic fibrosis in 2007, and her grandfathers who both succumbed to lung cancer, says the star. The once clean-cut and often controversial singer/actress hardly felt the pain of the needle as she had her first tattoo inked because she was concentrating on the people who inspired it in the first place.
“It really doesn’t hurt if you’re thinking about the meaning. I could never get a meaningless tattoo, but I think that if you’re doing something that’s important, that’s significant in your life, it takes some of the pain away,” she tells the February issue of Harper’s Bazaar. “It reminds me not to take things for granted. I mean breathing – that was something none of them could do, the most basic thing. And I put it near my heart, because that is where they will always be.”
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