Miley Cyrus is Harper’s Bazaar‘s 2017 August covergirl lensed by fashion photographer Camilla Akrans, and with that coveted front-page status comes a new interview with the former Disney star, in which she shares how media scrutiny from such a young age and the pressure of being a child star inevitably shaped her identity in the years that followed.

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