Miley Cyrus Performing w/ Joan Jett on Oprah!

Miley Cyrus with Oprah, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Salt-N-Pepa, Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne and more!

Miley performed with Joan Jett on The Oprah Winfrey Show today, April 13! They were part of the “Rock Goddesses of the ’80s” episode of the show. Together they sang Joan’s hits “Bad Reputation”, “Cherry Bomb”, and “I Hate Myself for Loving You”.

Miley also spoke briefly to Oprah about her transition from child star to adult, that can be found towards the end of the second video.

OMG.. This was be amazing!

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The Pressure to Be Perfect: Demi’s Story

Before rehab, Demi Lovato spent all of her time and energy trying to live up to the huge expectations she’s set for herself. But like for so many girls, pretending everything was fine only made things worse.

She’d been struggling with depression since she was a kid, and later started cutting herself, starving herself, or bingeing and purging. As the pressure cooker of her life began to boil over, Demi returned to those destructive behaviors. She felt constant anxiety about looking thin, pretty and poised every time she stepped outside. It got so intense that she blew up and punched on of her dancers on tour.

Demi says, “I basically had a nervous breakdown. I was really bad off. My parents and manager pulled me aside and said, ‘You need to get some help.’ It was an intervention. I wanted freedom from the inner demons. I wanted to start my life over.”

Pick up the May issue of Seventeen for the rest of Demi’s story.

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Miley to Meet Children for Make-A-Wish Next Week

Kayden Peets seems like a typical 6-year-old girl.

She loves to wear pink and purple, and has a pair of tennis shoes covered in glitter that light up when she walks. She sings songs from her favorite show with very little prompting and will proudly tell anyone she meets how to spell her name.

But she’s had a difficult year.

Last spring, doctors told her mother JoAnna Peets that Kayden had leukemia. The diagnosis came after months of back pain that sometimes made it hard for her to stand up. Once she got stuck on the top of a slide during recess because of the pain.

Peets took her daughter to the emergency room often. Over and over doctors assured them that Kayden was only experiencing growing pains. A few even suggested she was seeking attention from an overly indulgent mother.

Then Kayden got a 105-degree fever and doctors discovered the cancer.

Amid the flurry of activity that followed, Kayden came up with a list of three wishes. Next week, the Make-A-Wish Foundation will grant her No. 1 wish.

Kayden and her parents will be flown to Los Angeles to meet Hannah Montana, the Disney Channel television character played by actress and singer Miley Cyrus.

The family received the unexpected, albeit welcome, news last Thursday.

“I was so excited,” Kayden said and smiled as she finished, “because I get to miss four days of school.”

The four-day trip will kick off Monday morning when a limo picks up the family from their home and takes them to the airport for their flight west.

JoAnna Peets said they are still waiting on the full itinerary, but it looks as if Kayden will be one of about 15 children who will meet Cyrus as she sets up for one of her concerts.

“I’m really scared about meeting Hannah Montana because it’s my first time,” Kayden said.

Kayden said she hopes she will get to sing her favorite song, “The Climb” with Cyrus. In an ideal world, the two would also be in a movie together, Kayden said.

As to what she will do when she meets Cyrus, Kayden thought about it a moment and then said, “I’m gonna be like, ‘Hey, Hannah! Hey, Hannah!’ I’m going to be jumping I’ll be so happy.”