Originally appeared on E! Online
Miley Cyrus lived a double life so Noah Cyrus didn’t have to.
Indeed, the “July” singer reflected on everything she learned about overcoming the trials and tribulations that came with kickstarting her music career from watching her older sister navigate fame throughout her childhood.
“I really saw [her early career] from the perspective of a sister and as a kid,” Noah told People in an interview published Aug. 23. “By the time she was done with Hannah [Montana], I wasn’t even driving a car yet—I didn’t even drive when she was doing Bangerz, so that puts it into perspective.”
“Of course, there’s situations that you experience, and you’re like, ‘Okay, I will keep that in mind for the future and for: If that happens to me, how do I handle it?’” she continued. “So I’ve had a great role model for how it all works.”
While Noah began her own music career at 15 years old with the release of her first single “Make Me Cry,” she had been watching Miley discover who she wanted to be in the spotlight since she made her Disney Channel debut in 2006. Noah even made a few cameos in the show alongside her sister and their dad Billy Ray Cyrus.
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In the years following, Miley made quite a few headlines for her provocative performances—including her iconic “Wrecking Ball” performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.
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“I didn’t really look at what she was doing as like, ‘Oh, I’m learning from this,’” Noah recalled. “As I got older though, and by the time I was 16 and doing my own thing, I did experience parts in her career that I guess maybe felt like in her perspective were harder points or growing periods or changes that were just good examples of what to do or what not to do or what to let someone do or what means you’re getting taken advantage of.”
She added, “I think there were just a lot of lessons that just came with it because our age gap.”
Beyond following in her sister’s footsteps, the 25-year-old—also sister to Brandi Cyrus, 38, Trace Cyrus, 36, Christopher Cyrus, 33, and Braison Cyrus, 31—got candid about the public’s longtime interest in the rumored feuds between her loved ones.
“I keep myself quite separated from any interest or ‘drama’ with the family,” she told People. “I think when you grow up with that being normal—things being public—that it doesn’t quite reach you.”
“At the end of the day,” she continued, “this is a family, and that’s really it: just going through normal family stuff.”
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