Miley, girl, you kind of did it to yourself.
I still can’t understand why Miley Cyrus, 15, star of the Disney Channel’s hit Hannah Montana and an icon to kids and tweens everywhere, even spoke up in the first place about some Vanity Fair photos shot by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz. In the photos Miley is actually clothed, but it appears that she is topless – and because it is an artistic photograph, no one would have probably said anything if Cyrus didn’t drum up the brouhaha herself.
It could be that the top execs at Disney felt it appropriate that Miley should release a statement defending the photos before the issue of Vanity Fair hit newsstands, preempting any strike that the media might take on the young Cyrus. That leads me to another point about celebrity and the media, specifically the media and Miley – lay off, paparazzi!
She’s 15. She’s going to make mistakes. We all made mistakes when we were 15, we just weren’t living under a microscope, a magnifying glass of media and mayhem that surround her daily life.
The Vanity Fair hubbub comes just on the heels of racy, controversial photos that circulated the Internet of Miley posing sexily in a green bra and showing her midriff – and these photos weren’t artistically shot by Annie Leibovitz but by Miley herself, apparently to be send to a boy toy. You can well imagine the media frenzy that surrounded these photos.
Yes, she is a role model to kids, tweens, and now even teens across the country, but really, is criticizing the poor girl for enjoying Sex and the City really any of your business, media? And just for the record, she only watches the sanitized version shown on TBS.
Many celebs have spoken out against the media craziness surrounding Miley, encouraging the press to give it a rest, just as I have. Designer Michael Kors said simply “I don’t understand what the hubbub is about,” in reference to Miley’s Vanity Fair photos. “I think they’re beautiful pictures. Girls I went to high school with wore strapless dresses to the senior prom. So, I don’t get it. What’s the big deal?” Rosie O’Donnell, on her Internet blog, said “leave Miley Cyrus alone.” Tyra Banks echoed O’Donnell when on The View last Wednesday she said “she is a 15-year-old, and I just wish everybody would leave her alone!”
Miley – who said she felt "so embarrassed” about the Vanity Fair photos – skipped the red carpet at this weekend’s Disney Channel games “on the advice of her management team” to avoid “a media feeding frenzy.”
She’s just a kid, people. Give her a break. But Miley, I personally still think you never should have said anything about those Vanity Fair photos in the first place – don’t give them anything to talk about, and don’t provoke them. They will take the bait.
And in an effort to always give you a fair and balanced report on this blog, Beth Kseniak, a spokeswoman for both Vanity Fair and Annie Leibovitz, had this to say – “Miley’s parents and/or minders were on the set all day. Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley.”
Comments (1)
I think that the media is taking it too far. Ok so it was kind of tasteless because she is so young. But I think there are a ton of things more important than this that the world has to worry about. She is a little girl, we can't label her a bad person and make her feel like she just ruined the lives of millions of "tweens" everywhere... I say, get over it America, let her move on. She said she was sorry. IT was an error in judgement on the part of her paretns and management.
Posted by wendy | May 4, 2008 10:14 PM
Posted on May 4, 2008 22:14