Dove Cameron Covers BYRDIE

Dove Cameron is on the cover of BYRDIE. The young singer/actress is on the cover to promote her collaboration with Marshmello, “Other Boys”. Highlights from her interview are below.

On taking a break from Hollywood for bits at a time: “I really intuitively [felt] like I need[ed] to just go away. To see my friends for the first time in two years, I need to try to actually make a home and put things up on my walls. [I’d] been living in a sort of transitory period now for four years, and I loved it, but I just decided it had to come to an end.”

On constantly being called resilient: “Over time, it started to feel disempowering. It’s like, ‘So many things have been done to you, but look at what you did with it!’ It’s this pressure to always be okay, to survive it. I was just so tired of the look people gave me when they said how resilient I was.”

On using evolution to heal: “Every time [I’ve made a physical change], it’s been like, ‘Okay, I’ve reached some kind of emotional impasse. I need to do something new to reclaim myself. What’s that going to be today?’ People can perceive there was a big shift because I released ‘Boyfriend,’ dyed my hair brown, got a bunch of tattoos, and came out all in one eight-month period. But none of those things were related in the sense that I hadn’t planned them. It was a result of me being like, ‘Okay, I need to do this differently,’ and finding a million different ways that felt more true to me.”

You can check out more from her interview here.