Everyone is at their best on an international holiday.
Sun-kissed, wine drunk, and deliriously happy on new experiences.
Even if Miley Cyrus is crying into her cereal of a morning post-breakup to husband Liam Hemsworth, she’s picking herself back up and rebounding like a boss on the shores of Lake Como, Italy.
With photos a plenty to prove it.
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So much Versacheeeeee @versace ????
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Over the weekend, the bombshell was dropped.
After eight months of marriage, the Hollywood couple are no more.
Cyrus’s representatives confirmed the news to People: “Liam and Miley have agreed to separate at this time,
“Ever-evolving, changing as partners and individuals, they have decided this is what’s best while they both focus on themselves and careers.
“They still remain dedicated parents to all of their animals they share while lovingly taking this time apart.
“Please respect their process and privacy,” the statement read.
Here’s Hemsworth talking about his wife in February. Post continues after video.
And now, Cyrus is letting her 97 million followers how she’s doing.
Amongst a sea of enviable holiday snaps with captions like “Life’s a climb, but the view is great” and “New day. New Adventure,” Cyrus has thrown some cryptic messaging into the cosmos.
“Don’t fight evolution, because you will never win.
“Like the mountain I am standing on top of, which was once under water, connected with Africa, change is inevitable,” she wrote.
“The Dolomites were not created overnight it was over millions of years that this magnificent beauty was formed.
“My dad always told me ‘nature never hurries but it is always on time’ it fills my heart with peace and hope KNOWING that is true.
“I was taught to respect the planet and its process and I am committed to doing the same with my own,” she continued.
Well. Wow. Let’s unpack.
So Cyrus has obviously gone on a guided tour of Italy or bought herself a history book, because she’s really embracing the nature analogy here which we’re totally here for. But the subtext is all there – this is a woman trying to see the light and hope in a shitty situation.
We’re usually up to our eyeballs in Ben & Jerry’s with dried snot running down our faces, so kudos to Cyrus for owning her breakup and trusting the “process”.
But Cyrus hasn’t just been talking the talk, she’s already moving on.
She’s holidaying with reality TV star Kaitlynn Carter who is also newly single after parting ways with Brody Jenner, and ET reports the pair were seen kissing just hours before confirmation of the marriage split was made public.
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rock the boat, don’t rock the boat baby ⚓️
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Cyrus, 26, and Hemsworth, 29, met on the set of The Last Song in 2009, when they were aged just 16 and 19 respectively, and have been off and on again for the past decade.
They got engaged in 2012 but then split in 2013, before reconciling in 2015 and marrying in December last year.
The rumours of trouble started last week when Cyrus posted a picture sans wedding ring.
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Cyrus has been making headlines lately for other reasons, just last month she did a big interview will ELLE and gave readers a glimpse into her unconventional marriage.
“I think it’s very confusing to people that I’m married,” she told the magazine.
“But my relationship is unique. And I don’t know that I would ever publicly allow people in there because it’s so complex, and modern, and new that I don’t think we’re in a place where people would get it. I mean, do people really think that I’m at home in a f*cking apron cooking dinner?”
She went on to speak about her sexuality adding that “she was still very sexually attracted to women” but she’d made a “partner decision” in Hemsworth.
She also shared her thoughts on having children, telling ELLE she didn’t want kids for the moment for environmental reasons.
“Until I feel like my kid would live on an earth with fish in the water, I’m not bringing in another person to deal with that,” she said.
“We’re getting handed a piece-of-sh*t planet, and I refuse to hand that down to my child.”
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No news from the Hemsworth camp.
Liam last posted a picture with his now-estranged wife on June 2, praising Cyrus’s body with the caption “Abs like Ninja turtle”.
Other than that, he appears to be laying low, choosing to post photos of beach scenes and surfing.
A source told E! News, the couple had been struggling for a while, but distance and different career priorities ultimately led them to “drift apart”.
“They have been trying to make it work for months now but haven’t felt they were connecting on the level they were feeling when they got married last year. It’s been a rough year,” the source said.
“It wasn’t an ugly end, Miley and Liam have still been communicating and it wasn’t a messy split but they have decided they are at different points in their lives currently.”
Top Comments
Miley came in like a wrecking ball. Mind you, wrecking balls don't generally rebound so hard.
She will be fine once her achy breaky heart heals
And ten points to Flyer for an excellent (and literal) DadJoke!
damnit - I feel bad for laughing. It will never happen again
This is an excellent joke. Well done.