Noah Cyrus opens up about the "lessons" she's gained from her sister Miley Cyrus.
Noah Cyrus did not have to live a double life because Miley Cyrus did. In fact the singer of "July" thought back on what she had learnt about conquering the difficulties launching a music career from witnessing her older sister deal with popularity during her early years.
“I really saw [her early career] from the perspective of a sister and as a kid,” Noah stated in an interview with People that was released on August 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 went on. “So, I've had a great role model for how it all works.”
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Noah had been watching Miley find her identity in the spotlight since her Disney Channel debut in 2006, while Noah started her own music career at the age of 15 with the release of her first single, "Make Me Cry." Noah even appeared on the show in a couple cameos with her sister and their father, Billy Ray Cyrus.
Miley's controversial performances, such as her well-known "Wrecking Ball" performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, garnered her a lot of media attention in the years that followed.
"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 went on to say, “I think there were just a lot of lessons that just came with it because our age gap."
The 25-year-old, who is also the sister of Brandi Cyrus, 38, Trace Cyrus, 36, Christopher Cyrus, 33, and Braison Cyrus, 31, spoke candidly on the public's long-standing interest in the alleged conflicts between her family members, going beyond simply following in her sister's footsteps.
“I keep myself quite separated from any interest or ‘drama’ with the family," she revealed to 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 went on, “this is a family, and that's really it: just going through normal family stuff.”
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