These 30 Fascinating Facts About Miley Cyrus Can't Be Tamed

1. She was born Destiny Hope successful 1992. Her parents Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus chose that sanction because, her begetter told Us Weekly, "She's a giver. She believes that we're each enactment present for a reason, and that's to springiness backmost to our chap man. I'm existent arrogant of her."

2. Because she smiled often arsenic a child, her household nicknamed her "Smiley," which was yet shortened to Miley. The prima legally changed her sanction to Miley Ray Cyrus successful 2008.

3. Her godmother is Dolly Parton, who became adjacent with her dada Billy Ray aft they worked unneurotic successful the aboriginal 1990s. 

"We conscionable benignant of gelled, 'cause we're some state kids. We had a batch of amusive conscionable talking astir that," Parton said connected SiriusXM's Just Jenny successful 2019. "And past erstwhile Miley came along, I said, 'She's got to beryllium my fairy goddaughter.'" (Parton would aboriginal marque an quality connected Hannah Montana arsenic the titular character's fairy godmother.)

4. Miley knew she wanted to prosecute a vocation successful the amusement manufacture aft seeing a accumulation of Mamma Mia! with her dad, who told the Toronto Star that she grabbed his limb and said, "'This is what I privation to do, Daddy. I privation to beryllium an actress.'"

5. She made her acting debut connected Billy Ray's PAX TV series Doc.

6. At property 11, Miley auditioned for the Disney Channel bid Hannah Montana. The producers initially thought she was excessively young, but aft an exhaustive six-month hunt that had implicit 1,000 actresses work for the relation of the concealed popular star, executives brought Miley, past 12, backmost in. 

"She stood successful beforehand of america and knocked america out," Gary Marsh, Disney's president astatine the time, told USA Today successful 2007. "I retrieve I came backmost to my table that nighttime and wrote a enactment to my squad saying, 'This is either thing bonzer oregon a accidental that didn't wage off.' That stake has paid disconnected successful genuinely unimaginable ways."

7. During a 2020 interrogation with Hilary Duff connected her Instagram Live amusement Bright Minded, Miley admitted the Lizzie McGuire star inspired her to audition for Hannah.

"The lone crushed I wanted it was truthful I could bash immoderate you did," Miley told Hilary. "And truthful really, I don't deliberation I gave a s--t astir being an histrion oregon a singer. I conscionable wanted to transcript you nary substance what."

8. Hannah Montana premiered successful March 2006 and rapidly became 1 of Disney Channel's highest rated bid of each clip and made Miley 1 of Hollywood's astir fashionable young stars. By 2008, paparazzi photos of Miley were being sold for anyplace from $30,000 to $150,000, according to The Los Angeles Times.

9. While they portrayed champion friends on-screen, Miley revealed she and co-star Emily Osment "struggled to get along" during the archetypal 2 seasons.

"There was contention betwixt us—girls conflict with that, and we were nary exception. I didn't bash overmuch to hole it," Miley wrote successful her 2009 memoir, Miles to Go. "I mean, I wanted to, but I had nary thought however to spell astir fixing it. I ne'er got on with girls arsenic good arsenic I did with guys." But the 2 yet became friends, with Miley explaining, "It took america a portion to get into a groove. We some needed to larn however to beryllium delicate to each other."

10. After the bid ended successful 2011—there was besides the 2009 big-screen release Hannah Montana: The Movie successful 2009—Miley admitted she struggled to find herself.

"Some of my assemblage was truthful attached to a character, which wasn't me," she told Howard Stern successful 2020. "So, past that does a batch of intelligence stuff, wherever it's like, 'Am I invaluable arsenic myself?' OK, the full show's premise was that erstwhile I had my mean hairsbreadth and looked similar myself, nary 1 gave a s--t astir me. And past erstwhile I got each dolled up and enactment a wig on, each of a sudden, you know, I'm being chased by radical chasing my circuit bus. So, that's a batch to enactment connected a kid—to go, 'When you're yourself, nary 1 gives a f--k.' But past erstwhile they spell and benignant of groom you to look similar thing else, thing that you're not, and you're truly young, and it's a batch of constitution and, you know, wigs and each this stuff, it does thing psychologically."

11. It was emotion astatine archetypal show for Miley erstwhile she met her archetypal fellow Nick Jonas astatine a foundation lawsuit successful 2006, erstwhile they were some 13 years old. "We became fellow and woman the time we met," Miley revealed to Seventeen successful 2008. "He was connected a quest to conscionable me, and helium was like, 'I deliberation you're beauteous and I truly similar you.' And I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, I similar you truthful much.'" 

After secretly dating, the mates broke up and Miley admitted she "bawled for a period straight" aft their split. "Nick and I loved each other," she told the mag. "We inactive do, but we were successful emotion with each other. For 2 years helium was fundamentally my 24/7. But it was truly hard to support it from people. We were arguing a lot, and it truly wasn't fun."

12. Her narration with Nick inspired her breakup anthem "7 Things," with Miley adjacent wearing the necklace helium gave her successful the euphony video for the 2008 hit. The mates concisely reconnected successful 2009, with their short-lived reunion inspiring The Jonas Brothers ballad "Before the Storm," which featured Miley. 

13. While filming The Last Song successful 2009, Miley began dating her co-star Liam Hemsworth. They were connected and disconnected for a decennary earlier getting joined successful 2018. But Miley and Liam announced their divided 8 months aboriginal and they were officially divorced successful 2020. 

14. Miley aboriginal admitted that the trauma of losing their location successful Malibu during the California wildfires successful 2018 drove her determination to wed the Hunger Games prima aft a two-year engagement.

"We were unneurotic since 16," she said connected The Howard Stern Show successful 2020. "Our location burned down. We had been like, engaged—I don't cognize if we truly ever thought we were really going to get married, but erstwhile we mislaid our location successful Malibu...I conscionable clung to what I had near of that house, which was maine and him. And I truly bash and did emotion him very, very, precise overmuch and inactive do, ever will."

15. During her 2020 quality connected the Call Her Daddy podcast, Miley reflected connected her archetypal "hook-up," confirming it was Liam without straight naming her ex-husband. 

"I ended up marrying the guy, truthful that's beauteous crazy," she said. "I lied and said that helium wasn't the first, truthful I didn't look similar a loser."

16. Shortly aft announcing her divided from Liam, Miley made headlines erstwhile she began a whirlwind romance with The Hills: New Beginnings alum Kaitlynn Carter. The mates broke up aft 2 months, with Kaitlynn admitting the public's involvement successful their romance played a origin successful their split. 

"We really did enactment beauteous hard to support it arsenic backstage arsenic we could, but it is what it is," she said on The Viall Files podcast successful June 2020. "It's truthful hard to spell done a breakup successful the nationalist eye, too...it's truthful rough. But there's besides a batch to beryllium gained and learned from that."

17. Miley came retired arsenic pansexual successful 2016, telling Variety that she struggled to "understand" her sex and sexuality increasing up.

"I ever hated the connection 'bisexual,' due to the fact that that's adjacent putting maine successful a box," she explained to the publication. "I don't ever deliberation astir idiosyncratic being a lad oregon idiosyncratic being a girl. Also, my nipple pasties and s--t ne'er felt sexualized to me. My eyes started opening successful the 5th oregon sixth grade. My archetypal narration successful my beingness was with a chick. I grew up successful a precise spiritual Southern family."

18. In 2017, Miley claimed she was the inspiration for Katy Perry's deed opus "I Kissed a Girl."

"I heard her connected the radio...they said, 'Who did you constitute that about?'" Miley told WKTU. "She said: me! I heard it and I screamed, and started freaking out."

19. Miley is the laminitis of the Happy Hippie Foundation, which works to combat injustice facing stateless youth, LGBTQ younker and different susceptible populations. 

20. In her 2009 autobiography, Miley revealed she was calved with tachycardia, a non-life-threatening information that makes her bosom bushed overmuch faster than the mean rate.

"The benignant of tachycardia I person isn't dangerous. It won't wounded me, but it does fuss me," she wrote. "There is ne'er a clip onstage erstwhile I'm not reasoning astir my heart."

21. Miley adopted a vegan fare for six years earlier switching to a pescatarian manner due to the fact that her "brain wasn't functioning properly," she explained on The Joe Rogan Experience successful 2020. She revealed that Liam cooked food for her to devour arsenic her archetypal repast successful ages that wasn't wholly plant-based and, she recalled, "I cried, like, for a agelong time. I cried for the fish...it truly hurts maine to devour fish."

22. While "Party successful the U.S.A." is 1 of Miley's astir palmy songs, the vocalist isn't precisely a instrumentality of the catchy track. "I hatred it," she said in a 2019 video. "But for immoderate reason, the radical emotion it." 

23. In 2013, an online petition posted on the White House's authoritative "We the People" website asked President Barack Obama to alteration the U.S. nationalist anthem from "The Star-Spangled Banner" to "Party successful the U.S.A."

24. Initially acceptable to lend her dependable to the 2021 animated movie Hotel Transylvania, Miley claimed in a 2019 tweet that she was fired "for buying Liam a penis barroom for his day and licking it." (She was replaced by chap erstwhile Disney prima Selena Gomez.)

25. In 2010, Miley's Disney darling representation went up successful smoke when a now-infamous video surfaced of the star taking a deed from a bong. A decennary later, Miley hilariously celebrated the scandal's day connected Instagram.

"Happy 10 twelvemonth day to the groundbreaking video of a teen smoking a bong & saying dumb s--t to their friends," she wrote. "(Not definite the manager of this good movie should beryllium considered a 'friend' but...)" She besides answered a burning question, writing, "#YesItWasReallySalvia #IfYouFindWeedThatDoesThisToYouSHARE."

26. In a 2019 tweet, Miley alleged the bong incidental outgo her a immense endorsement contract, writing, "I mislaid a monolithic Walmart woody astatine 17 for ripping a bong."

27. Miley has 74 tattoos and got her archetypal assemblage creation erstwhile she was 17.

28. Miley has been unfastened astir her sobriety travel implicit the years, discussing her relapse during the pandemic.

"Well, I, similar a batch of people, being wholly honest...fell off," she said during an interrogation with Zane Lowe for Apple Music successful 2020. "I would ne'er beryllium present and go, 'I've been f--king sober,' and I didn't. I fell disconnected and I realized that I present americium backmost connected sobriety, 2 weeks sober, and I consciousness similar I truly accepted that time."

She added that she's trying to travel to presumption with things, noting, "One of the things I've utilized is 'Don't get furious, get curious.' So don't beryllium huffy astatine yourself, but inquire yourself, 'What happened?'"

29. Miley explained that the deaths of musicians like Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain inspired her to reevaluate her narration with alcohol.

"Twenty-seven to maine was a twelvemonth that I truly had to support myself," she said. "That really truly made maine privation to get sober, due to the fact that we've mislaid truthful galore icons astatine 27. It's a precise pivotal time. You spell into that adjacent section oregon this is it for you. I conscionable consciousness that immoderate of the artists that astir couldn't grip their ain powerfulness and their ain vigor and their ain force. It's an energy. I, nary substance what, was calved with that."

30. In March 2022, Miley's level had to marque an exigency landing after it was struck by lightning portion she was en way from Colombia to Paraguay for the 2022 Asuncionico euphony festival. Miley aboriginal admitted that she was "a small traumatized" by the incident. 

"It was truly scary," she told Seth Meyers. "I was successful my mom's thigh due to the fact that I was beauteous definite it didn't substance astir the seatbelts astatine this point."