Vanity Fair Publishes Pictures Of Topless Hannah Montana
Also known as Miley Cyrus, and every 7 - 15 year old girl’s hero (including my own).
From the New York Times:
LOS ANGELES — Fifteen years old, topless and wrapped in what appears to be a satin bedsheet in the June issue of Vanity Fair. Did Miley Cyrus, with the help of a controversy-courting magazine, just deliver a blow to the Walt Disney Company’s billion-dollar “Hannah Montana” franchise?
Some parents reacted with outrage over the weekend when the television program “Entertainment Tonight” began showing commercials promoting a scoop: Ms. Cyrus, the star of the wholesome Disney Channel blockbuster “Hannah Montana,” had posed topless, albeit with her chest covered, for the Vanity Fair photographer, Annie Leibovitz.
Screen grabs of the photo quickly popped up online, sparking a blogosphere debate. “Bonfire anyone?” wrote Lin Burress on her marriage and parenting blog, Telling It Like It Is, referring to the mountain of Hannah Montana retail items — makeup, shoes, clothes — in the marketplace. “Parents should be extremely concerned,” Ms. Burress said in an interview. “Very young girls look up to Miley Cyrus as a role model.”
Here’s the picture:
She’s not exactly topless, but even so. She’s fifteen, and clearly this is a sexually-themed pose and photograph. I don’t know what else to say about it other than that it’s inappropriate, and I’m a little surprised that her parents would let her do it.
My daughter loves Hannah Montana, but I don’t want my daughter to think it’s appropriate to pose half-naked as a fifteen-year-old.
