Inside Miley Cyrus's Blended Family: Meet Her 3 Brothers and Where They Are Now
By Chloe Bennett
The Cyrus family structure is a textbook case of a late-twentieth-century blended family navigating sudden, historic fame. Country star Billy Ray Cyrus and producer Tish Cyrus built an eight-person household in Franklin, Tennessee, during the 1990s, but the sibling roster predates their marriage.
Tish entered the relationship with two children from a previous union with Baxter Neal Helson: daughter Brandi (born 1987) and son Trace (born February 24, 1989). After marrying Tish in December 1993, Billy Ray legally adopted both children, giving them his surname and raising them as his own.
Simultaneously, Billy Ray had fathered a child during a brief relationship with South Carolina waitress Kristin Luckey. That child, Christopher Cody Cyrus, was born on April 8, 1992, in Fort Worth, Texas. Just eight months later, on November 23, 1992, Tish gave birth to Miley (originally named Destiny Hope Cyrus). Billy Ray and Tish later expanded their shared lineage with Braison Chance Cyrus on May 9, 1994, and Noah Lindsey Cyrus on January 8, 2000.
Because Christopher was raised by his mother in South Carolina, the Cyrus brothers experienced completely disparate childhoods. Trace and Braison grew up with backstage passes to country arenas and television soundstages. Christopher, conversely, lived in suburban anonymity, bridging the gap between normal life and the glare of the Nashville machine.
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