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

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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

 
 

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- marapem See Profile I'm a Fan of marapem

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:45 PM on 05/03/2008
- PDBudd See Profile I'm a Fan of PDBudd

"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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:31 PM on 05/02/2008
- allfive See Profile I'm a Fan of allfive

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?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:11 PM on 05/01/2008
- JayeSutter See Profile I'm a Fan of JayeSutter

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?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:52 PM on 05/01/2008
- Raymondf See Profile I'm a Fan of Raymondf

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

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:12 PM on 05/01/2008
- Bittertruth See Profile I'm a Fan of Bittertruth

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!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:26 PM on 05/01/2008
- Daniel8168 See Profile I'm a Fan of Daniel8168

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:01 PM on 05/01/2008
- citizenofmars See Profile I'm a Fan of citizenofmars

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:58 PM on 05/01/2008
- SweetAngie See Profile I'm a Fan of SweetAngie

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!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:46 PM on 05/02/2008
- Maya2008 See Profile I'm a Fan of Maya2008

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

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:58 PM on 05/01/2008
- citizenofmars See Profile I'm a Fan of citizenofmars

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

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:00 PM on 05/01/2008
- BlueSkye See Profile I'm a Fan of BlueSkye

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."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:10 PM on 05/01/2008
- Theda See Profile I'm a Fan of Theda

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:41 PM on 05/01/2008
- ajwall See Profile I'm a Fan of ajwall

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:40 AM on 05/01/2008
- cryingeagle See Profile I'm a Fan of cryingeagle

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!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:58 AM on 05/01/2008
- Maya2008 See Profile I'm a Fan of Maya2008

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

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:59 PM on 05/01/2008
- MarcInCA See Profile I'm a Fan of MarcInCA

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:40 PM on 05/01/2008
- Oilygarch See Profile I'm a Fan of Oilygarch

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:44 AM on 05/01/2008
- Oilygarch See Profile I'm a Fan of Oilygarch

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:27 AM on 05/01/2008
- ConcernedAboutRFuture See Profile I'm a Fan of ConcernedAboutRFuture

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:33 AM on 05/01/2008
- GoodwithWood See Profile I'm a Fan of GoodwithWood

Ouch! I'm afraid you're right.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:19 AM on 05/01/2008
- OneWoman See Profile I'm a Fan of OneWoman

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:34 PM on 04/30/2008
- Oilygarch See Profile I'm a Fan of Oilygarch

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:20 AM on 05/01/2008
- alltwisty See Profile I'm a Fan of alltwisty

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

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:57 PM on 04/30/2008
- wilhelmR See Profile I'm a Fan of wilhelmR

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.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:28 PM on 04/30/2008
- wavydavy See Profile I'm a Fan of wavydavy

Good ol' squeaky clean Disney. At least Miley is older than this girl (and showing a lot less skin):

http://www.slate.com/id/2190255/

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:26 PM on 04/30/2008
- TroubleNYC See Profile I'm a Fan of TroubleNYC

Isn't that hilarious? They're crying foul and outrage but they're just hypocritical! This is all manufactured controversy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:47 PM on 04/30/2008
- awenyyds See Profile I'm a Fan of awenyyds

Please just leave the girl alone

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:51 PM on 04/30/2008
- victoria See Profile I'm a Fan of victoria

This is a gorgeous, evocative portrait. I think it is beautiful. Predictable, though, is the phobic reaction to sexuality. Annie Leibovitz captured Miley as the innocent flirt. This being said, does anyone here doubt that everyone involved with the staging/shoot and selection of this shot - the photographer, Miley's manager, agent, family, Disney, et al - did not plan and deliberate on the public reaction? Don't we all know that the $$ for the photography, staging and publication were part of the plan along with the explanations and apologies that were decided on as well. I'm guessing that Miley knew the effect she was creating as she was being photographed. Hello -- she is an actress, isn't she??

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:26 PM on 04/30/2008
- KayoFrisco See Profile I'm a Fan of KayoFrisco

Miley should have called Mick Jagger before she went to a shoot with Annie. "She will get you to take your shirt off", has been Sir Mick's tongue in cheek warning to new celebs. Just ask Sting, Bette Midler, Linda Ronstadt, Gov. Arnold, Whoopi Goldberg, to name a few.

Billy Ray and Miley could have just as easily taken a peek at Ms. Leibovitz' portfolio to know what she gets a subject to reveal.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:58 PM on 04/30/2008
- FarOutFish See Profile I'm a Fan of FarOutFish

The brouhaha over this pose shows we still are a nation of prigs. The "finger-pointing society" and national scolds from all over the media have condemned this as "child pornography". That"s Bovine Scatology. The pose is reminiscence of thee art of the great masters of the renaissance.
I hope some idiot persecutor files charges in an effort to get there fifteen minutes of fame. That would expose the absurdity of these politically inspired violations of the first amendment. Someone needs to remind legislators the first words of the first amendment say "Congress shall make no law¦" Considering our legal system perhaps the constitution should have stopped at that. "No man"s life, liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:24 PM on 04/30/2008
- katzooks See Profile I'm a Fan of katzooks

It is very telling of our national soul that that the Miley Cyrus photos have garnered so much media attention, when hardly a ripple was made over the May 2008 Vanity Fair article, "Monsanto's Harvest of Fear," which has everything to do with the roots of world hunger, not to mention the Bush-Clinton funding and sanctioning of this ruthless, unethical corporation, which has already caused untold damage to the earth and is bent on monopolizing the world''s food supply. Yet one more installment in this country's insatiable appetite for fluff over substance.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:09 PM on 04/30/2008
- Pinkmarbles See Profile I'm a Fan of Pinkmarbles

We are witnessing the emplosion of a teen star that is still in her teens! Usually they wait till their at least 18 to 20 but I guess with the help of ones parents 15 will do just fine! Britney and Lindsey step aside!!
Even tho, it is not illegal to pose like this, it does give pedophiles worldwide something to look forward to!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:58 AM on 04/30/2008
- BarryLeonardini See Profile I'm a Fan of BarryLeonardini

The Center For Disease Control recently released the sorrowful statistics that 1 in 4 teenage girls across all races has a STD -sexually transmitted disease.Miley is 15 years of age. Is she or will she be one of the one in four? LOOK BUT DON"T TOUCH.

Barry Leonardini

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:06 AM on 04/30/2008
- fanoftruthiness See Profile I'm a Fan of fanoftruthiness

Great, another reason for my teenage son to lock himself in the bathroom for 15 minutes....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:04 AM on 04/30/2008
- victoria See Profile I'm a Fan of victoria

What is wrong with your son locking himself in the bathroom to *dream* of . . . .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:25 PM on 04/30/2008
- Oilygarch See Profile I'm a Fan of Oilygarch

Hardly.

Does your son have access to the Internet?

Case closed.

One day alone is not enough to contain the 15 minute sessions the media your son is exposed to is capable of delivering. And besides, it impossible to censor what is in the mind. At not yet.

They say this is a free press.

And they say that we are free in this land of plenty. Well, at least the illusion starts at age of 18.

Then we realize freedom is not free and its erosion can, like veiny ramifications, take many paths, be subtlety sticky and slippery.

*oops!* -be back in 15.

*LOL*

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:50 PM on 04/30/2008
- alltwisty See Profile I'm a Fan of alltwisty

He doesn't actually need a reason.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:00 PM on 04/30/2008
- VictorLudorum See Profile I'm a Fan of VictorLudorum

Cyrus and his militia reached the bank of river industria andilusia toriqia and stood there stareing at the other bank for a glimpse of life all the food and luxor was not inside his vision burning like a virgin being caressed secretly until a gush of intelligence rushed up from his stomach towards his chest and he gulped ,nothing but summer heat...

song...
she is so classy,
her flesh will show the way..
she is going to fight for winning,
maybe another day,
one boat after another are tied over a flowing river and proudly passeth the armies to giveth the bonnie some due,,,
its just a shirt,
wait till you see the pants fling,
she moves ,
she gets for she gives free trips,
turnberry islands sheesh mahal heron minar rtibetian bazzar,
she buuilds,legs for advertisers waiting in rows..
shes just a baby,
she will grow,
out grow,
the m****** f*****'s shame................................go baby go,,baby will go..go all the way...untill the lihts go low...the new sun rises..the new flowers grow,,little girls can sing and dance, the huntsmen bugle at wild boars,st george kills the dragon,st philip retires his ego!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:56 AM on 04/30/2008