Dove Cameron Gets Candid About Struggles With Her Identity: 'I've Been Crying A Lot Lately'
perezhilton.comDove Cameron is getting deep on Instagram. The Disney darling took to the social platform on Wednesday to open up with her fans like never before, revealing that she’s been struggling with her identity and image to the point where she feels “terrorized” — and is often in tears.
The candid admission came alongside a string of selfies that showed the Boyfriend songstress crying while looking in a mirror.
In a note that was shared alongside the raw pics, the starlet said she’s “been struggling lately with the concept of self, my inner relationship to who I know myself to be and my outer perceivable self who I feel I have never known but other people seem to.” Whoa. Related: Ezra Miller Threatens Cop With ‘Hate Crime’ After They Used Wrong Pronouns In New Body Cam Footage She added: The Descendants star went on to reveal she’s lately been “covering mirrors” and “feeling wrong in clothing that used to make me feel beautiful,” confessing that “sexuality and performative gender norms, societal rewards and identity are really throwing me for a loop.” The actress, who previously came out as queer, expressed her frustrations about how social media, mirrors, branding and other ways of “broadcasting” our lives for others to see is “not optimal for mental health, clarity of energy or relationship to our inner world.” She mused: She’s right about that!
While she doesn’t “have answers from myself yet,” the 26-year-old said she wanted to speak out about this struggle as a way to “maintain a quiet non judgmental curiosity rather than punish myself for not knowing what I’m feeling or where I’m going.” She shared: Cameron dove in deeper in the caption of her post, writing that “for me, identity and the self have always been diametrically
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