{"id":282927,"date":"2019-11-04T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1089324"},"modified":"2019-11-04T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:28:00","slug":"kaitlynn-carter-recalls-falling-in-love-with-miley-cyrus-in-candid-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kaitlynn-carter-recalls-falling-in-love-with-miley-cyrus-in-candid-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaitlynn Carter Recalls Falling in Love With Miley Cyrus in Candid Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019711\/rs_1024x679-190811090422-1024-miley-cyrus-kaitlynn-carter-italy-boat-instagram-cjh-080919.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Miley Cyrus, Kaitlynn Carter, Instagram, Italy\" alt=\"Miley Cyrus, Kaitlynn Carter, Instagram, Italy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"679\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram \/ Kaitlynn Carter<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"46.08125819135\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"34.560943643512\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kaitlynn_carter\">Kaitlynn Carter<\/a><\/strong> is opening up about her relationship with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/miley_cyrus\">Miley Cyrus<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hills: New Beginnings<\/em> star looked back at her romance with the singer in an essay for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a29646191\/kaitlynn-carter-relationship-essay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Elle<\/em><\/a> published Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This past July, I went on vacation with a female friend; the next thing I knew, I was in love with her,&#8221; Carter wrote at the beginning of the piece, not naming any names. &#8220;Until that trip, it had never crossed my mind that I was even capable of loving a woman the way I loved her. But after reflecting on my romantic history, I realized that I&#8217;ve never really had a &#8216;type.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As fans will recall, Carter and Cyrus sparked romance rumors in August after they were&nbsp;photographed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1063927\/miley-cyrus-kisses-brody-jenner-s-ex-kaitlynn-carter-in-italy-amid-liam-hemsworth-split\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kissing<\/a> during a trip to Lake Como, Italy. The getaway came shortly after Cyrus&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1063903\/miley-cyrus-and-liam-hemsworth-call-it-quits-less-than-a-year-of-marriage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">split<\/a> from <strong>Liam<\/strong> <strong>Hemsworth<\/strong> and Carter&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1061956\/the-hills-brody-jenner-and-wife-kaitlynn-carter-break-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">breakup<\/a> with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brody_jenner\">Brody Jenner<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the essay, Carter recalled traveling throughout Europe with a woman and &#8220;trying to move past our respective breakups.&#8221; It was around this time that her &#8220;first and only romance with a woman was born.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fell just as hard for her as I had the older man so many years before,&#8221; she wrote, looking back at another relationship prior to her romances with Jenner and Cyrus. &#8220;It was that same familiar force of nature; I didn&#8217;t have to think about a thing or overanalyze. It just happened and it felt exactly right. Reflecting back on our three-year friendship, I realized I&#8217;d always been drawn to her in a way I wasn&#8217;t with other friends, but until that trip it had never crossed my mind to think of her in a romantic sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.66357615894\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15.406622516556\">\n<p>Carter and Cyrus broke up in September. The &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1065290\/surprise-miley-cyrus-drops-new-song-slide-away-after-liam-hemsworth-split\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slide Away<\/a>&#8221; artist is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1079676\/miley-cyrus-spotted-kissing-cody-simpson-two-weeks-after-kaitlynn-carter-split\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dating<\/a>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cody_simpson\">Cody Simpson<\/a><\/strong>. Looking back at a &#8220;short-lived&#8221; romance, Carter wrote she felt &#8220;eternally grateful to my most recent relationship for opening my eyes to this unexplored part of myself, and for inspiring a new level of self-discovery and wonder at all the possibilities of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been forced to get to know myself in a far deeper way than ever before, and not just in terms of my sexual preferences,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I&#8217;ve also been forced to reckon with who I am as a person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also shut down reports that claimed the relationship was&nbsp;&#8220;merely a &#8216;summer fling&#8217; or a &#8216;same-sex affair&#8217;\u2014noting it was &#8220;so much more than that&#8221; and was a &#8220;profound journey of self-discovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.795396419437\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019810\/rs_634x1024-190910190002-634-kaitlynn-miley-nyc-date-night-me-91019.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Miley Cyrus, Kaitlynn Carter\" alt=\"Miley Cyrus, Kaitlynn Carter\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">@JosiahWPhotos \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.904761904762\">\n<p>In the article, the reality TV star also opened up about &#8220;feeling pressure to explain or define myself in one way or another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m in a place to label my sexuality one way or another, but I&#8217;m okay with that,&#8221; she wrote at one point. &#8220;It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m still exploring and figuring out. It&#8217;s been interesting to watch friends and strangers alike assume I&#8217;ll automatically revert to being attracted to men, as if they&#8217;re more familiar with my sexuality than I am. Even I don&#8217;t entirely understand what my experience this summer means for me going forward\u2014and it&#8217;s&nbsp;my&nbsp;experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also encouraged readers to take the time to &#8220;understand who exactly their most authentic selves are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read her full essay, head on over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/celebrities\/a29646191\/kaitlynn-carter-relationship-essay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Elle<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1089324\/kaitlynn-carter-recalls-falling-in-love-with-miley-cyrus-in-candid-essay?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram \/ Kaitlynn Carter Kaitlynn Carter is opening up about her relationship with Miley Cyrus. The Hills: New Beginnings star looked back at her romance with the singer in an essay for Elle published Monday. &#8220;This past July, I went on vacation with a female friend; the next thing I knew, I was in love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-14 17:23:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}