Don’t you just love it when 19-year-olds claim to know what makes a relationship work?

Now that her scandal has officially become so last year, teen actress Vanessa Hudgens has started to feel a bit more comfortable talking about herself and her boyfriend, Zac Efron.

In the upcoming issue of CosmoGIRL!, the High School Musical actress tells her female fans that romances shouldn’t be a struggle. “If you really love someone, you shouldn’t have to work at it.” (In other words: trying to figure out how to hold a camera while posing nude might not be necessary.) “You finish each others’ sentences and have the same sense of humor.”

In the interview, the Disney actress also doled out words of wisdom to those thinking about making their relationships a bit more serious. “You have to think it through, not just do something spur of the moment. So that after it happens you won’t regret it. I think girls can be infatuated with their boyfriends and they have to remember that they come first.”

In other words: if you do choose to take nude photos of yourself, you have to think about the layout in advance. And realize - should those pics get out - it’ll be too late to regret what you’ve already done.