Miley Cyrus: Five Fun Facts

1. Despite her own substantial earnings, Miley Cyrus still gets a $300 monthly allowance from her dad.


2. Miley Cyrus' non-star character on Hannah Montana is also named Miley, but was supposed to be named Chloe.

3. Hannah Montana weighs heavily on Miley Cyrus, specifically the character-switching wig: "It's so itchy, and anytime it gets wet, it weighs 20 pounds."


4. Miley Cyrus wears a special ring, but not that kind: "My dad gave this to my mom and my mom gave it to me."


5. Miley Cyrus' parents made a deal that she live at home until she's 20. The agreement included adding a hip Miley-tailored section to the house with a separate bedroom and sitting room.

Miley's 7 things is about Nick Jonas

Despite its peppy beat and catchy pop hook, Miley Cyrus's "7 Things" was inspired by heartache. Sample lyric: "Your friends, they're jerks/ When you act like them, just know it hurts." And that’s just one of the seven things she "hates" about her unnamed ex.

So who's the guy? Brett Ratner, who directed the video, revealed to MTV that prior to solidifying the video's concept, he visited the singer's house and was shown "all of her personal items from under her bed that her ex-boyfriend gave her." (Among the mementos: "Dirty socks and a bunch of photographs.")

And although he never mentioned Cyrus's most famous ex, Nick Jonas, by name – the director does drop one major hint.

"The necklace she's wearing in the video is the necklace [the boy] gave her," Ratner told MTV. "She's wearing his diabetes or medical necklace." (Jonas – who split with Cyrus in late 2007 after two years of dating – has Type 1 diabetes and is a spokesperson for awareness of the disease.)

Back in July, Jonas insisted that the song couldn't be about him. "My friends aren't jerks," he told E!'s The Daily Ten.

For her part, the 15-year-old Cyrus recently told MTV that much of her record is about past relationships. "Most of my songs are for the girls who hate their current or ex-boyfriends," she explained.

"You can tell by the lyrics that they're very personal," Ratner added. "The stuff she talks about in the video is clever and emotional and fun at the same time."

All About Miley Cyrus

Name:

Miley Cyrus

Birth Date:

November 23, 1992

Birth Place:

Nashville, Tenn.

1992

November 23

Destined to be Miley

Destiny Hope Cyrus is born to country singer Billy Ray Cyrus (left) and wife, Leticia (Tish), who call a 500-acre Nashville farm home. Her dad is a "recluse" at this point, pulling back from the aftereffects of his "Achy Breaky Heart" fame. Theirs is a full house, with Miley and five other kids. The smiling darling earns the nickname "Smiley," that with time gets shortened to "Miley."

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2003

Baby Steps

As Billy Ray's returns to showbiz with acting roles in the series Doc, Miley wants to follow suit, despite her father's efforts and painful rejections at auditions. "I'd see those little tears come down her face and I'd hold her and say, 'Enjoy being a kid. There is too much heartache to mess up your childhood,'" Billy Ray tells PEOPLE. But there's no keeping her down on the farm. "She kept stepping up to the plate, and danggone, the right opportunity came at the right time." Those steps include a guest spot on Doc, and a part in Tim Burton's Big Fish.

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2005

All in the Family

Miley, 13, wins the lead role in the new Disney series, Hannah Montana, after initially being rejected because she was "too small, too young". She plays an average teen with a double life as a famous pop singer, and Billy Ray is cast as her dad. "I feel like I can tell my dad anything," she tells PEOPLE. "When we come home, we forget that we even work together and just hang out."