Miley Cyrus has said she feels like a boy trapped in a girl’s body.

The 22-year-old singer opens up about her gender identity in the September issue of Marie Claire, which hits newsstands on 18 August.

‘I feel like a 15-year-old boy trapped in the body of a 22-year-old girl,’ she said about her body image.

Cyrus is currently dating Victoria’s Secret model Stella Maxwell and launched a charity for homeless LGBTI youth in May.

Asked why she created the Happy Hippie Foundation, she responded, ‘A lot of us are born into some shit, you know what I mean?’

‘Lately, I’ve been talking a lot about my being gender-fluid and gender-neutral. And some people snarl at that. They want to judge me,’ she continued.

‘People need more conventional role models, I guess. But I just don’t care to be that person.’