Miley Cyrus has created quite a legacy for herself. By the time she entered her 30s, she’d starred in her own Disney Channel series and a TV movie, released seven albums, and scooped up a handful of Teen Choice Awards. That was a lot for her sister, Noah Cyrus, who is eight years her junior, to live up to. And it wasn’t always easy, according to the youngest Cyrus sibling, who said she struggled to grow up in Miley’s shadow.
She first started to put her feelings into words in her EP “Young & Sad,” which she released in 2020. The lyric “My sister’s like sunshine, bringing good light wherever she’ll go / And I was born to rain clouds, blessed in her shadows,” is a direct commentary on this. “I think just the message in the second verse, being born in the family I was in, everyone gave me such a hard time for having a hard time being Miley’s little sister,” Cyrus explained in an Instagram Live (via Metro).
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She added: “That was something I heard my whole life, every single day, my whole life. It was either that or that I wasn’t enough in some way, whether it was the way I look or the way I am.” Happily, and in part due to that song, Noah Cyrus has managed to carve out a space for herself in the entertainment industry outside of her family’s shadow.
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