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Q & A with Miley Cyrus

The Oprah Winfrey Show  |  December 20, 2007
Billy Ray Cyrus

 

Is your real name Destiny Hope?
Yes—and Billy Ray had a very special reason for giving her that name. "I had this vision that it was her destiny to bring hope to the world," Billy Ray says. "And as a baby, she just kept smiling all the time. So her name was Destiny Hope, but I started calling her Smiley. Then as you start talking to a baby, you start dropping the S's off the front end, and pretty soon Smiley became Miley."

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