Miley Cyrus defends relationship with father

US teen star Miley Cyrus says she is bothered by people who think there is something wrong with the bond between her and her father, singer Billy Ray Cyrus.

“The media has said some stuff about my dad and me being too close and too cuddly for a father and a daughter,” the 16-year-old actress-singer writes in 'Miles To Go', a new memoir.

“For me and my dad it’s not weird at all.”

Cyrus’s memoir, written with Hilary Liftin, will be published next month by Disney-Hyperion Books.

She does not mention directly last year’s photoshoot for Vanity Fair magazine, when she is shown reclining against her father, his arm around her shoulder, both of them sombre and bare-armed – an image many found suggestive.

But she does write that she loves her father (who co-stars on her 'Hannah Montana' TV show), is not afraid to show it, and “we don’t let other people tell us what expressions we’re supposed to have on our faces when we take a picture together!”.

Acknowledging that fame inevitably attracts criticism, she writes of being hurt by comments posted about her on the internet and concludes that some people are “so full of anger, hatred and bitterness”.