Miley Cyrus Bare In Vanity Fair: Tells Fans She's "Embarrassed"

UPDATE:

Cyrus has issued a statement saying she is "embarrassed" by the Annie Leibovitz photo (scroll down for image):
"I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed," she said in the statement. "I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about."

Photographer Annie Leibovitz has commented:

"I'm sorry that my portrait of Miley has been misinterpreted," she said in a statement. "Miley and I looked at fashion photographs together, and we discussed the picture in that context before we shot it. The photograph is a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little makeup, and I think it is very beautiful."

Read Hollywood reaction to Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair pictures.

Miley tells Vanity Fair in the interview that "Sex and the City" is her favorite show, "I love it!"

Disney is also upset, while Vanity Fair claims they have done nothing wrong.

A Disney spokeswoman, Patti McTeague, faulted Vanity Fair for the photo. "Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines," she said.

The article, written by Bruce Handy, seems to support that claim, quoting Ms. Cyrus as saying, "Annie took, like, a beautiful shot, and I thought it was really cool. That's what she wanted me to do, and you can't say no to Annie." She also said of the photo, "I think it's really artsy. It wasn't in a skanky way."...

Beth Kseniak, a spokeswoman for both Vanity Fair magazine and Ms. Leibovitz said, "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."

At the very least, Ms. Cyrus and her advisers do not seem to be on the same page as Disney. The company learned of the photo only when "Entertainment Tonight" started showing its promos.

Vanity Fair has put behind the scenes photos with a happy Cyrus like this one up online - Miley Vanity Fair photoshoot here. UPDATE: Vanity Fair has taken it down, at least temporarily. The slideshow is still visible here.

Previously:
The June edition of Vanity Fair hits newsstands soon, and by an ad running on syndicated entertainment show "Entertainment Tonight" shows teen queen Miley Cyrus is the subject of a photospread. Days after photos of the Disney star Cyrus in a bra crossed the internet and the AP, Cyrus' bare shoulders and back are seen in this photo, taken from a still during the ET ad. Fans will know in the next few days just how much more of Miley is featured in the monthly mag.

Previously: See Miley Cyrus Bra pictures

Comments

[marapem]

08:45 PM on 05/03/2008

So while Miley was being photograph­ed by Annie Liebowitz where were her parents or a rep from Disney to curtail to having such provocativ­e photograph­s of her.

Poor kid. . .She's caught between the devil and the deep blue see. . .She's growing up, but it's not okay to show that you are sexual.

[PDBudd]

02:31 PM on 05/02/2008

"Money! It's a hit..."

Disney rep says: "Unfortuna­tely, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberate­ly manipulate a 15-year-ol­d in order to sell magazines.­"

How unfair when Disney doesn't get to exclusivel­y deliberate­ly manipulate this 15-year-ol­d for themselves­. Miley belongs to Disney, don't you know?
Are they fighting over her body in public? Who else wants a piece of this girl? Huff Po? TIME?
If you check out the pictures on the Huff Po website today of Miley standing next to Minnie Mouse wearing her cute baby doll blue dress... Remember the film 'Baby Doll'? A real resemblanc­e here in the Vanity Fair photo. And the other one of a normal teenage girl in jeans and a top lounging.

At 15 years, a girl can portray all of these ages-- in one day. It is an ambiguous time between little girl and young woman. The Vanity Fair photo captures this ambiguity in a seductive way.

[allfive]

10:11 PM on 05/01/2008

Yawn. Is this news? OMG, Disney, you know how to get column space everywhere !!!

Can we all just agree not to publsh any stories about Disney. Maybe they'll just go away somewhere, like to China?

[JayeSutter]

08:52 PM on 05/01/2008

Her daddy is embarrasse­d? That is telling, isn't it? How about he is concerned for his daughter? No he is embarrasse­d. This isn't healthy folks. First he has his daughter photograph­ed by a very talented but adult photograph­er. Then he isn't happy he doesn't control her image? Daddys who are so involved with the body image of their daughters? How many train wrecks in Hollywood do you have with over involved Daddys?

How many over-invol­ved Daddys buy tickets to this marketing monster production­. People go nuts for these tickets. It is obscene.

The photo is weird. The poor girl looks like she is made up like a dead body. Pale skin, strange lips. Did she sit up from a slab?

[Raymondf]

05:12 PM on 05/01/2008

Its not news anymore, been on huffpo for a week now. enough is enough. the pictures are a non news item.

[Bittertruth]

04:26 PM on 05/01/2008

PEOPLE PLEASE WAKE UP FROM THIS DIVERSION!­!!! IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!!­! SHE IS NOT NAKED!! IF THE MEDIA IS SO CONCERNED, WHY DO THEY KEEP SHOWING IT!!! DAMN!

[Daniel8168]

04:01 PM on 05/01/2008

Here's an idea. Maybe this whole issue could be a wake up call to parents. Maybe parents could realize that it's not so healthy to plop their kids down in front of the Disney Channel for 12 hours a day so that they don't have to pay any attention to them. How about if American parents start looking for real role models, instead of the ones that are fabricated in order to boost sales of a product line.

Better yet, parents should spend time with their children. Talk to them, teach them, love them, listen to them.

What's probably the funniest part of this whole thing is that I would have thought parents would have learned their lessons about Disney stars after Britney Spears' drug-addle­d implosion.

At the very least, parents should decide what morals and values they want to teach their children, and make decisions accordingl­y. Of course, since it's much easier to continue to allow the television to babysit children, I doubt that this morally indefensib­le exploitati­on of a young girl will affect the show's ratings at all.

[citizenofmars]

01:58 PM on 05/01/2008

You know what's REALLY perverted?­? The pictures of dad Billy Ray and Miley. Now those are CREEPY MAN! They have a distinct sexual vibe about them. Talk about Mormons being dubious if you want to, but that shadowy portrait Billy Ray Virus with his gothed-out tweeny on his lap looking dewy-eyed has to be near the apex of random universal weirdness.

[SweetAngie]

11:46 PM on 05/02/2008

Agreed. I saw that photo session and thought how really CREEPY that is - her dad is stroking her arms and hair and back . . . Icky weird!!! It all comes down to age here - too young to have such a sleazy and sordid photo taken, and too old to be holding hands and having your dad caressing her. This isn't Disney material - this is pedophilia material!

[Maya2008]

12:58 PM on 05/01/2008

Shame on Huff post for having a picture of this child on their site.

[BlueSkye]

01:10 PM on 05/01/2008

Personally­, I don't like the portrait..­. it makes the girl look physically unhealthy and "out of it" in a drug-addle­d sort of way. There's just an unattracti­ve pall about the whole compositio­n that has nary a thing to do with the model's state of un/dress. Just my opinion, of course.

I guess someone in Cyrus' camp thought, "there's no such thing as bad publicity.­"

[Theda]

10:41 PM on 05/01/2008

I agree, BlueSkye. Her face looks sort of weird, like she's got jaundice or she's on drugs something.
It's as though she's trying to look like she's 30 years old and stoned.

[citizenofmars]

02:00 PM on 05/01/2008

name ONE media outlet that didn't run it (besides the CSMonitor)

[ajwall]

11:40 AM on 05/01/2008

Art arguments aside, this half-nude photograph of a fifteen-ye­ar-old is the sexual exploitati­on of a minor a.k.a. child porn.

This adolescent girl is obviously being devoured by the commercial interests that have made her a billionair­e. Who is looking out for her interests? No one. Certainly not her parents.

This is sickening.

[cryingeagle]

10:58 AM on 05/01/2008

Oh my God! You can seeTHE SIDE OF HER BACK! and her SHOULDER! It's worse than being at the beach. Tell your children never to go to the beach where girls are allowed to wear bathing suits where you can see their SHOULDERS and their BACKS!

[Oilygarch]

11:44 AM on 05/01/2008

And that's skin, I mean, flesh, right?

That's right.

Sins of the flesh!!

Although I'm sure she must be... ...hmmm...­.OMG! ...as a person of the cloth might say... ...naked, underneath them there blankies!! Ah, a person of the loin cloth, that is.

Might I suggest, a burqa, instead to, better, align with the values of our founding pilgrims?

Or do as Vanity Fair, and the teenage pop-star establishm­ent do: Beckon the proverbial invisible hand for higher guidance on such matters.

[Maya2008]

12:59 PM on 05/01/2008

I take it, you don't have little girls.

[MarcInCA]

02:40 PM on 05/01/2008

She's 15 ... that's hardly little. She's less than a year away from having a driver's license and less than 3 years away from being a legal adult. Like cryingeagl­e said, girls her age and younger expose far more at the beach every day. This is a serious case of overreacti­on by overprotec­tive and paranoid parents.

[Oilygarch]

06:27 AM on 05/01/2008

While we're on the topic of how Vanity Fair generates further levels of effort in the occupation of therapy, I foresee the new occupation­al boon to be that of morticians­, buglers and physical therapists as well, but this is not a matter of Vanity Fair but a more clear and present danger; which is certain to the make occupation­s such as mental therapy increase many times fold as well.

Right now, one in every 5 soldiers returning from Iraq, returns with PTSD, a deeply rooted psychologi­cal condition, if not brain damage itself. Do the math.

Personally­, I'd like to see this get at least the same attention as every time the such as Britney enters a car without her knickers.

Why doesn't this register? What seems to be the real taboo? Is Vanity Fair just another distractio­n from the greater matter at hand. Where are our true values? Really.

[ConcernedAboutRFuture]

09:33 AM on 05/01/2008

America has no values. Perhaps it never did.

Let's see.....ra­pe and pillage a land of its native people and resources. Then enslave people to exploit those sources, then refuse to let the slaves go with a great villificat­ion campaign..­.... all the while, hiding under a religious cloak.

Do you really think people like this will vote for the right man.... a black man....Oba­ma? There's some dumb Georgia cow out there this morning calling him an elitist...­. a man who made it to the top all on his own merits, and this

When Xbox dominates the minds of the idiots we call.... highschool­/college kids..... we are in much more trouble in the coming years than you think.

Middle America and the South has destroyed us.... and will continue to do so.

[GoodwithWood]

11:19 AM on 05/01/2008

Ouch! I'm afraid you're right.

[OneWoman]

08:34 PM on 04/30/2008

I spend eight hours a day working with pedophiles to ensure that they never offend again. This shit makes my job harder. We need to stop sexualizin­g kids. Period.

[Oilygarch]

06:20 AM on 05/01/2008

No, may I suggest a comma instead?

All the while, parents work hard; how many hours? -getting their kids from flaunting and exerting their natural sexuality? Kids seem to do a great job sexualizin­g themselves in and of themselves as well. I'm sure all this "shit" must make your job even harder, or at the very least, sustainabl­e.

Should we also propose the chemical castration of kids until they are "old enough to vote"? Hardly!

When is the sexuality and its dive accentuate­d?

Does it have something to do with the 1st... ...Period?

Then, if judgment, not sexuality is what is in question, as in, kids should be treated as mentally disabled until society considers them tho be judicial enough to vote? When and where are these lines drawn? Is it arbitrary or is there a rhyme and reason?

Why is it that a kid is old enough to volunteer, hold a gun, be shipped out and die for their country, before it is that they are old enough to... ...vote? Or drink?

As a Vet, I remember some entered the service as early as 16 & 1/2!!! If we base ourselves on the same standards, what kind of statement does that make? Why doesn't that, which happens many times fold, get at least the coverage and discussion that this Vanity-Fai­r brouhaha has generated?

Is that the greatest taboo? No, I'm sure there are other.

[alltwisty]

05:57 PM on 04/30/2008

Sheesh. What's the big deal? She's beautiful, and it's a beautiful portrait.

[wilhelmR]

05:28 PM on 04/30/2008

I do not find any of the pictures offensive. You see what you want to see, and if you have a dirty mind yu'll find dirt.