Miley Cyrus Parade Magazine Cover

Miley Cyrus is so over this Hannah Montana crap.

Miley Cyrus tells this Sunday’s Parade magazine that she’s practically ready to burn all the “sparkles” and gauzy pink Disney Hannah Montana costumes. At the ripe, old age of 17 she’s ready to shed the garish G-rated pop-singer-by-night persona and fine-tune that pole dancing routine she debuted last year.

“As I’ve grown into it, I’ve grown out of it,” she says. “When I was 12, I thought, ‘I want to be famous all the time! I want everybody to recognize me!’ [Now] I can’t breathe looking like that anymore,” she tells Parade. “A friend came by the set one day and said, ‘You don’t look very happy.’ I said, ‘I’m feeling claustrophobic in all these frills…”I hate being thought of as a product,” she says. “I am not a doll, and people want to treat me that way… I’m older now. I have an opinion. I have my own taste.”

After her break-up from Justin Gaston this summer, Miley did what most 17-year-olds do when getting over from a relationship with a crazy hot underwear model — film a movie and rebound with a super hot Australian guy. It’s tough being Miley.

“The last thing I was expecting to do was to fall in love,” she says of the 19-year-old Aussie actor. “I went there thinking the summer was about me … but I guess God was like, ‘Girl, here is this amazing guy!’”

~Melissa Noble