”It became something that was expected of me,” she told Harper’s Bazaar of her raunchy behavior. “I didn’t want to show up to photo shoots and be the girl who would get my tits out and stick my tongue out.”

She added: “In the beginning, it was kind of like saying, ‘Fuck you, girls should be able to have this freedom,’ or whatever. But it got to a point where I did feel sexualized.”

In her Billboard interview, Cyrus also revealed that she gave up smoking weed while recording, saying: “I like to surround myself with people that make me want to get better, more evolved, open. And I was noticing, it’s not the people that are stoned. I want to be super clear and sharp, because I know exactly where I want to be.”