Supermodel Tyra Banks has leaped to the defence of 15-year-old under fire Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus. The teenager has been having a hard time of late after her new photo shoot for Vanity Fair magazine.

The America's Next Top Model host said: "She is a 15-year-old, and I just wish everybody would leave her alone!"

Tyra says she can relate to Miley's predicament because when she was younger: "There were definitely jobs they would ask me to do." But her mum helped her to decide which were appropriate.

Miley has already said that she feels embarrassed by the pictures where she appears to be topless.

So in the words of Tyra "leave her alone" and let her be 15 again...