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It is hard to read about Miley Cyrus' recent "issues" - in Vanity Fair, other slightly tart pics - and not fear for the road she is being tempted to walk... a road not unlike the one Britney Spears walked a decade ago.
Like Cyrus, Spears was a young Christian girl with a very upfront values system - sex, she said, would wait until marriage.
Over time, however, she began walking a road that seemed - visually at least - at odds with those values; it was a road that capitalized on and exploited her emerging sexuality.
This album cover:
..ended up presenting her in a video this way:
And over time that became this:
And so on and so forth and...
The shame for this in Cyrus' case and in Spears' case doesn't lie so much with photographers or managers or magazines or any other media. The shame lies with their parents.
What on earth are THEY thinking? They are supposed to be the grownups here. You know, the ones who are supposed to be protecting and guarding their children? And Cyrus' father let her pose like that? Do they become so star struck or money struck that they become blinded to simple things like... oh... the fact that someone is taking semi-nude pictures of them to be printed in a magazine?
I've got daughters. I know what I would do if anyone suggested that they wanted to take "artistic" photos of them draped in nothing but a sheet.
Suffice it to say I'd need to repent for violence.
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SHE'S 15 FOR GODSAKES!!!!! What does she think the benefit of posting nude pictures on the computer is going to accomplish?!Does she think that it will make her more popular? Because that WILL NOT HELP. She's not even an adult yet and she is already becoming a clone of Britney Spears. I don't understand the need to show off your body anymore than needed- and for the WHOLE WORLD to see. Her parents should do something about it so she doesn't screw up her life. That girl is so famous and rich and popular that she doesn't even know what to do with her life anymore. I'm very disappointed with her.
I'm with you, David. I called this about a year ago, and sad to say I was proven right. Poor girl. Stupid parents.
/insert bad joke about the Cyruses deserving to have achy-breaky butts here.
AS A WISE MAN ONCE SAID, WITH GREAT POWERS, COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY.
SHE IS AN IDOL TO YOUNG GIRLS ALL OVER THE WORLD. SHE MAY NOT HAVE ASKED FOR IT, BUT IT HAPPENED ANYWAY & SHE NEEDS TO SET A GOOD EXAMPLE. I'M NOT SAYIN THAT SHE SHOULD BECOME THE NEXT MOTHER THERESA. SHE'S 16,SHE'S IN A VERY DIFFICULT TIME IN HER LIFE. SHE A TEEN OF COURSE SHE GONNA F*CK UP. WE ALL DO. NONE OF US KNOWS THE STRESS IT TAKE TO MAINTAIN HER LIFE STYLE. HOWEVER EVERY1 SHOULD HAVE THEIR LIMITS.HER PARENTS R ALSO NO BETTER, IF THEY WERE AWARE OF WAT SHE IS DOIN. MY MOM WOULD DROP KICK OUT MY TEETH, PUT THEM BAC IN & DO IT AGAIN......LMAO
WHOA OMIGAWD DOES EVERY CELEBRITY STAY A CHILD? BRITNEY IS AN ADULT WHO GREW UP!!!!! GET OVER IT! AT LEAST SHE ISN'T BUCK NAKED!
How are their lives or actions any of your business?
It seems absurd that someone who has such high and mighty 'morals'
could spend their time and energy judging someone they've never
even met so they could make a few bucks from advertising on their
latest blog entry. I hope one day you realize how much of a hypocrite
you are being.
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