Those 'racy' Miley Cyrus photos -- what to tell the kids?
The clamor is growing about the upcoming Vanity Fair photo spread of Miley Cyrus-Hannah Montana, which shows the 15-year-old Disney Channel star staring over her shoulder, wearing (at least that's implied) nothing more than a bedsheet.
Cyrus says she's embarrassed by the Annie Leibovitz shoot, which she thought would be "artistic." And she's apologized to her fans.
This comes on the heels of several smaller Cyrus photo tempests on the Internet recently. A couple of pictures showed her frolicking with underwear visible.
MomLogic has a few tips about talking with your tweens about these photos.
My kids are much younger, and we don't get Vanity Fair at home (phew), but I'm still wondering about what to say to them. Even though they don't watch Hannah Montana, they hear about it at school, and my son even knows some of the music through friends. (He's been known to sing: "Nobody's perfect/I gotta work it," over and over. Maybe we should stop finding this hilarious.)
I know that if the subject comes up, I'll stress what I have always told my now 7-year-old girl -- that your body is private, not for public display; and that being grown-up has more to do with how you act and what's going on in your mind and heart than how you look.
What are you going to say?
(Photo of Miley Cyrus at the 2008 Academy Awards by Kevork Djansezian, Associated Press)
Comments
Personnaly I don't think there's anything wrong with this photo. If a girl showing her back is suddenly racey and inapropriate then what is the world coming to? I would tell my kids that there's nothing wrong with this. If she wanted people to see naked pictures of her posing then she would have gone to FHM or posted pictures on the internet, which I would strongly dissagree with, but she hasn't.
Just to clarify, the photo on the blog is not the Vanity Fair photo with the bedsheet that folks are talking about.
Posted by: Tracy | April 29, 2008 4:33 PM
Well we all know what to tell our kids (if they are being raised with any kind of morals). No it is not O.K. to appear to be nude with dark red lip stick like big girls wear under only a sheet perhaps trying to look sexy while someone is taking your picture, when you are only 15. I have 4 kids that get a real laugh out of her show. One is a 10 year old daughter. Come on Billy Ray what do you expect Disney to do, really? Sorry but it is not O.K.. And lets not get into the internet photos my kids heard about at school!
Posted by: Sick of it Mom | April 29, 2008 8:40 PM
I have seen the Vanity Fair photo that is causing all the talk and I'm afraid I just don't get it. Someone described her expression as an "erotic leer," and I don't see it. Maybe it says more about the viewer. She looked pensive to me.
Posted by: Dahlink | May 2, 2008 4:47 PM