All lenses are on Miley

She's product for the Walt Disney Co. She's product for Vanity Fair. She has a clothing line. She's writing her memoirs. She hawks milk. She was invited to the Academy Awards, although she's only acted in a small part in only one movie (Tim Burton's "Big Fish"). Every commercial enterprise wants to cash in on the Miley magic, so why should the tabloid press be any different?

Still, the nonstop attention can't be good for her developing psyche.

Blair Berk is a defense lawyer to the stars, the one Spears and Lohan have tapped for their legal woes. She's also helped prosecutors go after reckless paparazzi.

"The problem with the paparazzi is they literally and figuratively take away your ability to be off camera," says Berk. "You're never offstage. When you're walking down a sidewalk and there are 50 cameras, it's an entirely artificial existence. It seems to me, particularly with teenagers, there's already so much self-consciousness. To force that on children who may be precocious -- but that has nothing to do with how emotionally mature they are. I think it leads to disaster, frankly. From my perspective, during those formative years, the whole point is to be able to screw up and make wrong choices and have failures and learn how to deal with that and how to form character. To do that without any privacy is really unfair."

Not to mention the pressure of having conglomerates like Disney relying on a young performer never to break character.

Judging from some of the Miley Cyrus footage on the X17 website, the teenager handles her throng of photographers with friendly aplomb. She's also always accompanied by her mother, Tish (which is a different kind of nightmare for your average 15-year-old).

Still, an insider in the Cyrus camp says there have been occasions when her father, Billy Ray, has gotten upset about the paparazzo's growing ferocity, and the family has noticed how the photographers try to ingratiate themselves with their 15-year-old target. "They try to befriend her. They buy her coffee. They buy her dinner. It's despicable how they try to take an advantage of her," says the source close to the Cyrus family.

She's coming of age

Of course, Cyrus isn't in the stratosphere of Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston and Katie Holmes, the holy trio of 2008 for the tabloid press. Cyrus has a largely teenage audience rather than a broad fan base.