It had to have been tough growing up on TV!

Miley Cyrus is known for her free spirit and unbelievable self confidence, but in the newest issue of Marie Claire, she admits that playing Hannah Montana on the Disney channel gave her a distorted perception of who she was supposed to be.

"I was told for so long what a girl is supposed to be from being on that show. From the time I was 11, it was, 'You're a pop star! That means you have to be blonde, and you have to have long hair, and you have to put on some glittery tight thing'," she laments to the mag. "Meanwhile, I'm this fragile little girl playing a 16-year-old in a wig and a ton of makeup. It was like I had f***ing flippers," she adds.

The "Wrecking Ball" songstress went on to explain the impact of those internalized messages.

"I was made to look like someone that I wasn't, which probably caused some body dysmorphia because I had been made pretty every day for so long, and then when I wasn't on that show, it was like, "Who the f*** am I?," she confesses.

Although she's in control of her own image these days, the twerking princess admits the pressure to look a certain way still gets her down in the dumps. "When you look at retouched, perfect photos, you feel like s**t. They lighten black girls' skin. They smooth out wrinkles. Even when I get stuck on Instagram wondering, 'Why don't I look like that?' It's a total bummer. It's crazy what people have decided we're all supposed to be," she reveals.

You gotta have a thick skin in Hollywood!