Former 'Hannah Montana' star Miley Cyrus has admitted that she has always been true to herself throughout her career because pretending to be someone else never interested her.

Speaking to America's Cosmopolitan magazine, on which she graces the cover of the new edition, she explained that the stress of trying to say things are alright when they are anything but was too much so she just embraced her flaws and carried on without hiding her real self:

"Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually been what's best for me, because people knew when I was on that show that I was really growing up. I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, 'That isn't who I really am.'"

She also opened up about her music career and explained that there's "room for everybody" despite there currently being an influx of popular solo female singers:

"Katy Perry's been my friend for f***ing five years, and I'm not ever gonna let our work get between that relationship. If Katy sticks with being Katy, and Ke$ha is Ke$ha, and Rihanna is Rihanna, and I'm me, there's room for everybody. The problem is when people look at Gaga and say, "Oh, that works; I'm going to be like that."’

Watch footage of Cyrus' cover shoot here: