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Miley Cyrus became famous as a Disney child star, but it’s her very adult behavior in her teenage years that has put her in the headlines recently, from flaunting her slimmed-down body in provocative clothes to becoming engaged to Australian heartthrob Liam Hemsworth at the age of 19.
Now the former “Hannah Montana” star is fighting back against critics who say she’s too young to wed 22-year-old Hemsworth, telling Marie Clare magazine the pair’s love is not reckless.
“Me and Liam both have been together a really long time, and I just know that this is what I want … for my life,” she told the magazine. “Life is too short to not spend every moment making the person who makes you the happiest happy in return.”
Cyrus and Hemsworth met in 2009 while co-starring in “The Last Song,” a movie about two teens who fall in love.
Appearing as the magazine’s cover girl, Cyrus said fans and naysayers should not expect her to walk down the aisle anytime soon, or necessarily in a grand way.
“I don’t really care about the wedding or the piece of paper as much as I do the promise we’ve made to each other,” she said. “And we want to have a long engagement.”
Cyrus said she was completely surprised when Hemsworth, star of the “Hunger Games” and her boyfriend of three years, proposed to her in June at the Los Angeles-area home they share with their five dogs.
Cyrus told Marie Claire she had pointed out the engagement ring, a 3.5 carat cushion-cut antique diamond by celebrity jeweler Neil Lane, to Hemsworth but didn’t know that he was planning to propose.
“We’d been kind of talking about [getting engaged], and I saw something like it online at one point and thought it was really pretty,” Cyrus said. ”But I usually wear rose gold. I just love that it’s old and has a story. And I’m happy, because it doesn’t look like anything else I wear.”
Also surprised by the engagement were Cyrus’ parents, Billy Ray and Tish, whom, Cyrus reveals, Hemsworth did not ask permission of ahead of time.
Even so, Billy Ray Cyrus took to Twitter after the news broke in June to say, ”All I ever hoped for as a daddy was to see my kids reach their dreams. To find happiness … peace of mind … and someday know … true love.”
It’s a good thing they all get along, considering their living situation, which Cyrus also details in the interview.
Cyrus and Hemsworth now live in the Cyrus family’s 8,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa in the San Fernando Valley. Her parents have since relocated two houses down from them.
“It’s really weird [sleeping] in my parents’ room,” Cyrus said. “Now it’s my room, and Liam is at my dad’s sink, and I’m at my mom’s.”
“It’s really strange, but also really cool,” she said of the accommodations. “The first time I ever met or hung out with Liam was here. When he first moved to America, he didn’t have any family here, so our family became his. This is where all our memories are being made.”
Along with the new ring, new home life and a new, shorter blond hairdo, Cyrus is also sporting a trimmer physique, which she has not hesitated to flaunt on Twitter and the red carpet.
“I’ve gotten a little more comfortable with my style, and I think that’s being comfortable with who you are and [your] sexuality,” said Cyrus, who credits Pilates for her washboard stomach and leaner look. “I’ve gotten more comfortable with that.”
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Her tween fans are gone, her movie career is a flop, so Mylie turns to her personal life life for the lime light. She is too young to tie the knot. She should talk with that other woman who was madly in love, LeeAnn Rimes. The married Ms. Rimes went on to have an affair with a married man, who left his family for her. She’s madly in love with Eddie too. We will see how that plays out.
These individuals should stop with the drama and focus on something other than themselves. There are alot of causes out there that could benefit from their celebrity. One rarely hears about any sort of spiritual life. Focusing inward and then outward is a good foundation for good character which enhances the chances of a long marriage.
Mylie needs to retool her career and marry when she is mature enough to handle the commitment. That certainly doesn’t mean she shouldn’t have a social life. I give her credit for not being filmed leaving bars at the wee hours. Hopefully she will take it slowly and give her and her fiance time to really get to know each other. She has not lived long enough to have been with him “a long time”. I wish them luck.
Hannah’s Take
Posted by: Betty Prudence | August 7, 2012, 11:02 am 11:02 am
How can you presume to know the entirety of Miley Cyrus’ life? Do you know her personally? I doubt it. I’ve known many people to marry their high school sweetheart and stay together for life. My parents met at 16, married at 20 and were married until my father’s death 36 years later. I have many many other friends and acquaintances who married right out of high school and are still married 20 years later. I’ve also known people who married in their 30′s and divorced within 2-3 years. Everyone’s circumstances are different. You know nothing of Miley’s personal life…what goes on behind closed doors. She has been with her fiance for 3 years and is planning a long engagement…what about that screams immaturity? And to compare her to Leeanne Rimes is just ridiculous! Miley does not live Leeanne’s life and Leeanne does not live Miley’s life.
Posted by: Joy | August 8, 2012, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
You could learn to spell her name… especially after reading a head line and article featuring it…
Posted by: jessica | August 9, 2012, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
my oponion they are too young, i agree with top comment too young to know who she truly is, i mean now it all seems cliche celebrity dating another celebrity a couple of years boom divorce poor kids having to live two different lives one with mom and the other with dad, thats what frustrates me i mean okay if they love eachother truly love eachother great fantastic but i feel like its all very fake and just similar to other celeb marriages the only one i truly felt was real was natalie and her husband it was awsome simple yet lovely and truthful, she didn’t get into the tabloids much because she didn’t want that even her wedding, and she is an oscar winner and big A list actor with actual talent, Now take a look at miley and Liams heavily promoted and miley keeps smacking on the critics and paparazzi if she really i know they get annoying but she can prove them wrong by being the better person not say anything and prove to them they are wrong instead of saying ya me and liam are like awsome and forever and what not, she can prove it through actions rather than words. But it just goes to show she is still not mature she doesn’t know how to handle it, she doesn’t have maturity, dignity, and class, maturity she keeps going down the tabloids level just ignore, and also a baby ya because she can afford one many girls in love at that age with out the money aren’t thinking of having a baby okay to be in love but no baby right now, she lacks so much still and she doesn’t realize it the responsibilty, she is going to be 30 and wonder where did my youth go? you only wish you can relive it, yes life is too short which is why enjoy your youth, your freedom, your life instead of being dependent on another love yes but don’t grow up too fast and again she is trying to do that again and its so sad, their is time people enjoy youth and save the adult life for later their is time, and the fact that she doesn’t realize that just shows how narrow minded her evaluation of life really is.
Posted by: wisecracker | August 9, 2012, 7:10 pm 7:10 pm
also props to natalie portman because she enjoyed her youth look at what age she married she was young when she started her career but one of the reason i looked up to her was not only her talent but her startling maturity of things now thats a real woman who knew what she wanted she enjoyed it her career and is still enjoying it but she enjoyed her youth her childhood first and later on she got married and had a chid but she was wiser and more mature and she knew when to do it my props to her truly i tip my hat off to her, THATS MATURITY, a woman who is not getting into the tabloids we know a bit about her life but she is very mature and has class and wisdom and intelligence, And she has talent and knew how to use it not by flaunting her nice physique but by her actions Miley take notes please you got a long way to go LONG WAY TO GO, you can accomplish anything in life as long as you do it at the right time, NATALIE you did it great!
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted by: wisecracker | August 9, 2012, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm