Bad Girls No More – When Vixens Find Virtue…

If Miley Cyrus has reminded us of anything, it’s that famous young girls going wild draw more media attention than just about anything.

But while she’s twerking overtime to make headlines right now, there’s no saying Miley won’t revert to something closer to her heavenly Hannah Montana image at some point. After all, there are plenty of bad girls who’ve learned to behave better. Here are the best of ‘em…

Nicole Richie was the ultimate bad girl of Hollywood.

The adopted daughter of Lionel Richie first appeared on our radar after starring in the reality show The Simple Life with fellow wild child Paris Hilton. When she was young, Lionel’s marriage failed and that led to young Nicole being over-indulged. The result was a young woman heavily involved in drugs and alcohol. She eventually went to prison on drink-driving charges – albeit for only 82 minutes

Nicole fulfilled all the terms of her probation and has turned her life around since ending her friendship with socialite Paris Hilton and becoming a star in her own right.

The mother of two is now married to Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden, works as a fashion designer, is a published author, a television presenter and runs a children’s charity, The Richie Madden Children’s Foundation.

Like her former friend, Nicole Richie, Paris lived a life of tabloid madness and self-indulgence. The Simple Life co-star and granddaughter of hotel-chain founder Conrad Hilton was known around the world for her hard-partying ways and also wound up spending time in prison on DUI charges.

The socialite hit an all-time low when she “starred” in a sex tape. Her attempts to parlay this into acting and singing superstardom were only slightly less embarrassing.

While Paris hasn’t enjoyed the same post-bad girl success as Nicole, she’s still pulling in the bucks. Since The Simple Life finished she has created another reality show, launched perfume, clothing and sunglasses lines and she even designs apparel for dogs.

Paris continues to be paid a bucket load to attend events. It’s just that these days she stays clear of the headlines.

The child-star turned alcoholic has been in and out of rehab, had disturbing public disputes with her parents, been in several car crashes, faced DUI charges, admitted drug use and spent time in jail.

The Mean Girls star recently finished her sixth stint in rehab and is looking to open her own rehab facilities to help others going through the same hard times.

She’s filming a reality show for Oprah’s OWN network after earlier this year giving a revealing tell-all interview with the famous host in which she committed to sobriety. The star has stuck to her word since July – here’s hoping it onwards and upwards for her now!

This size zero model’s work hard and play harder philosophy led her down many tumultuous paths, including destructive and drug-fuelled relationships.

The lowest point during Kate’s wild days was in 2005 when an image of the model snorting what appeared to be cocaine ended up on the front page of the UK Daily Mirror. Her career took a nosedive as a long line of designers dropped Moss from their brands.

The headlines have been noticeably free of Kate’s antics since the supermodel ditched bad boy Pete Doherty for The Kills guitarist Jamie Hince. The couple married in 2011.

Since her final stint in rehab, Kate has stayed on the straight and narrow and seems settled into married life.

This actress became the poster girl for the high price child stars pay for their early fame and fortune. After starring in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial at the age of seven, Drew quickly spiralled into drugs and alcohol.

She smoked her first cigarette at nine, was drinking at 11, doing marijuana and cocaine in nightclubs at 13. A year later she’d tried to commit suicide and was in rehab.

Drew got clean, bounced back and became Hollywood’s darling again as the star of hits like Charlie’s Angels, The Wedding Singer and Ever After.

Through her company Flower Films, she’s also produced smashes like Music & Lyrics and He’s Just Not That Into You. The loveable and spontaneous star is now married to art consultant Will Kopelman, with whom she has a daughter, Olive.

The Oops!..I Did It Again singer certainly lived up to the title of her first hit single. She was in and out of drug rehabilitation centres and has had a string of failed relationships, including annulling her marriage to a childhood friend only 55 hours after their Las Vegas wedding.

Britney’s crazy low came in 2007 when she shaved off her hair and shortly afterwards lost custody of her children Sean and Jayden to ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Britney made her singing comeback with the release of her seventh album, Femme Fatale, and starred as a judge on American’s X Factor in 2012. Forbes named her the highest-paid female musician for that year, with earnings of $58million.

Britney is now working on her eighth album, Piece of Me, due for release on December 3, 2013.

Angelina Jolie never shied away from her bad girl image and made headlines from her early twenties for engaging in self-harm, wearing vials of her ex Billy Bob Thornton’s blood, taking illicit drugs and for admitting she was into BDSM.

Her relationships also caused controversy, in particular her unusually close relationship with her brother and her love affair on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Jennifer Aniston’s husband Brad Pitt.

Jolie and Pitt are now America’s Sweetheats, with three adopted children, Maddox, Zahara and Pax, and three they’ve had together, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.

As well as dedicating her life to her family, the 38-year-old actress has balanced acting and directing with much-vaunted humanitarian work. She has been an active ambassador for UNHCR since 2001 and travels the world for worthy causes.