She is practically two people — the real-life incarnation of Disneys's billion-dollar "Hannah Montana" franchise, and Miss Miley Cyrus, a precocious Southern girl who just released "Miles To Go," 272 pages on the life lessons she has learned in all of her 16 years.
Here's the rest: Critics' Choice and Golden Globe nominations, an impressive Grammy performance alongside pal Taylor Swift, a Kids' Choice Award, the cover of Glamour Magazine, the premiere of "Hannah Montana: The Movie" this coming Friday.
And that's just been the first few months of 2009. Even at this young age she's more than just a starlet — Miley is a full-blown pop phenomenon. The line between Hannah Montana the character and Miley Cyrus the superstar is blurry at best.
The character takes on aspects of the real girl — both are Tennessee natives dealing with a new life in Hollywood, and dad Billy Ray Cyrus even plays her dad on the show. It's a level of fictional reality that makes perfect sense to teen viewers in this post- "The Hills" world. "It's all very confusing,"Cyrus admits."It's not so separate. I think it's really proven that as much as changes and as much as changes, then again it's all the same person." She may be Disney's latest girl next door, but she has already weathered a few personal and professional storms that have portrayed her as not that innocent. First there was the uproar over the Vanity Faire portrait that had her in little more than a sheet. Then came the personal photos leaked online of her posing suggestively in her bathroom. Paparazzi follow her and her boyfriend everywhere. Miley's living out her teenage years while everyone's watching. "She's just such a superstar that people are interested in everything she does, whether they love her or hate her. She's that one girl that everyone has an opinion on one way or another," says Matt Rettenmund, editor in chief of Popstar! Magazine. "She's as big or bigger than Britney Spears." "People will always say that I'm over-exposed and that's what I want, all this attention," says "MILEY CYRUS" . "That's not it. What I love is the art of it all." "Music is not something that was thrust upon her as another way to make money or make her name bigger. It's something that she genuinely wanted to pursue,"says Rettenmund. And for all the control Disney could exert, she's a 16-year-old who does voice her opinion."Even by the time her second album was released, she was pushing to have a say. She is going to break free from anything that is too youthful, probably even before she stops being a youth herself."
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