Miley Cyrus: 'Photoshoots are not real'

Miley Cyrus has said that the pictures taken during magazine photoshoots do not reflect reality.

The Hannah Montana star told Good Morning America that young people should not try to live up to the artificial images of celebrities printed in the press.

Cyrus said: "I wish I could tell every little girl who looks in the mirror and says, 'I'm not beautiful,' and take them in to the process to [see] what it takes to look like that.

"They would feel so much better about themselves. It takes an hour-and-a-half before you're even there and they're working on the lighting...it's not real."

Cyrus was recently compared to classic screen icons Judy Garland and Shirley Temple by director Peter Chelsom.