Miley Cyrus Discusses Motherhood and Choosing Not to Have Children in Candid Interview

Miley Cyrus has opened up about why she hasn’t had children in a new and vulnerable interview. 

The hitmaker, 32, revealed she isn’t ‘passionate’ about motherhood as she got candid about being child-free.

Speaking on The New York Times’ The Interview podcast, Miley used a conversation about celebrity make-up brands to explain her position on having children.

‘My stepdad asked me the other day, “Why are you the only one without a makeup line?”‘ she said. ‘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.”‘

She continued: ‘I feel that way about motherhood. It’s just never been something that I’ve been overly passionate about.’

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‘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 mum dealt with,’ Miley added. 

‘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.

‘I never really cared that much,’ she said. ‘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 Wrecking Ball hitmaker added that if she ever was to become a mother, she’d prefer to adopt when she thinks about the environmental issues and limited resources on earth.

‘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…’

It comes after Miley broke her silence on her father Billy Ray Cyrus’ 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’.

‘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,’ said the pop icon who debuted her new single Easy Lover on Thursday. 

‘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, she added: ‘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, and their divorce was finalised in 2023. She married Prison Break star Dominic Purcell in August the same year.

‘At first, it’s hard,’ Miley added of her dad’s new romance, ‘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 saying at the time: ‘It’s early days but they’ve genuinely hit it off.’

Reflecting on the relentless scrutiny surrounding her famous family and why today’s media cycle makes those moments easier to weather – Miley continued: ‘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.’