Miley Cyrus: I came out as bisexual at 14

Singer Miley Cyrus. Photo / Getty Images

The same year Miley Cyrus rose to stardom as Hannah Montana at age 14, she told her "conservative-ass" mother she was bisexual.

The Disney child actor turned controversial pop star said she remembers telling her Christian mother Tish she had romantic feelings toward women.

"I said, I love them. I love them like I love boys... it was so hard for her to understand," Cyrus told Paper Magazine.

"She didn't want me to be judged and she didn't want me to go to hell.

"But she believes in me more than she believes in any god. I just asked for her to accept me. And she has."

The 22-year-old posed naked for the magazine's cover shot, covered in mud, while hugging her pet pig Bubba Sue from behind.

The Wrecking Ball singer now describes herself as gender fluid, and says she's open to "every single thing that is consenting and doesn't involve an animal."

"Everything that's legal, I'm down with," she said.

"Yo, I'm down with any adult - anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me.

"I don't relate to being boy or girl, and I don't have to have my partner relate to boy or girl."

Last month Cyrus founded the Happy Hippie Foundation to raise funds and awareness for homeless and LGBT youth.

"I can't drive by in my f***ing Porsche and not f***ing do something," she said.

"I see it all day: people in their Bentleys and their Rolls and their Ubers, driving past these vets who have fought for our country, or these young women who have been raped."

- AAP