Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth have decided to separate less than a year after tying the knot.

“Liam and Miley have agreed to separate at this time,” a rep for Cyrus tells PEOPLE in a statement. “Ever-evolving, changing as partners and individuals, they have decided this is what’s best while they both focus on themselves and careers. They remain dedicated parents to all of the animals they share while lovingly taking this time apart. Please respect their process and privacy.”

Couple’s separation rumors have started after Cyrus posted a photo of herself on Instagram and people have noticed that she was not wearing her wedding ring.

“Mute me if you don’t want SPAMMED,” she captioned the post, which featured Cyrus sitting in a chair while wearing a black bustier top with a matching pair of black pants.

Cyrus is not wearing her wedding ring in the picture, she is wearing multiple bracelets and necklaces. 

Her older sister Brandi Cyrus commented, “Boooooooooooooom!”

The photo was captured when Cyrus vacationed with Brody Jenner’s ex Kaitlynn Carter in Italy, the trip took place just one week after Carter’s split from Jenner after a year of marriage.

Carter posted a photo of the pair along with two other friends while sailing around Lake Como. She also posted a snap of the pair wearing sexy swimsuits.

While Carter wrote in the caption, “rock the boat, don’t rock the boat baby ⚓️,” her ex Jenner, 35, commented, “Hot girl summer ?.”

Cyrus talks about how she doesn’t “fit into a stereotypical wife role.”

“I think it’s very confusing to people that I’m married. But my relationship is unique,” Cyrus told Elle for its August 2019 cover story, adding that the details of their love life are something she chooses to keep private.

“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,” she said. “I mean, do people think that I’m at home in a f—ing apron cooking dinner? I’m in a hetero relationship, but I still am very sexually attracted to women.”

Cyrus added: “People become vegetarian for health reasons, but bacon is still f–ing good, and I know that. I made a partner decision. This is the person I feel has my back the most. I don’t fit into a stereotypical wife role. I don’t even like that word.”

Cyrus and Hemsworth first met in 2009 on the set of Nicholas Sparks’ romantic drama The Last Song, they had on-again, off-again relationship for years before he proposed in 2012.

The two broke their engagement and separated for a year later, before reconciling in 2015.

While Cyrus and Hemsworth were committed to each other for years, they never thought seriously about tying the knot. But that all changed on December 2018 when they wed in a very private ceremony at their home in Franklin, Tennessee.

They became very close after their beloved Malibu home burned down the previous months during the California wildfires.

But now, they have called the quits.