'Wrecking Ball' sensation Miley Cyrus has opened up about being a role model to her impressionable young fans and confessed that she's happy at the image she puts out to the public. 

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly about the character she portrays, Cyrus admitted that she's just comfortable to truly be herself and is glad that others are encouraged to embrace who they are through her own example:

"I'm proud of the person I've become. Not what people think I've turned myself into, but who I've actually become, which is a happier person. It would obviously be hard to not be happy to be me right now. I'm proud of knowing that's what I encourage other girls to do."

Cyrus added: "I said 2013 was going to be the best year of my life, and I think what you put out into the universe you get back. I proved that to myself this year."

She also took to her official Twitter page last night (December 15) and told her followers that she's tired of the constant rumours surrounding her personal life, writing: "DONT hug your friends goodbye unless you wanna be rumored "dating". I wanna think more of the world but people just keep proving their stupidity."