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Miley Cyrus Apologizes For "Nude" Pics

April 28, 2008


Just when you thought you'd already seen too much of Miley Cyrus, new photos of the 15-year-old's bare back have emerged. The semi-nude pics (Miley holds a blanket over her chest) were taken for Vanity Fair magazine by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.

But Miley says she never meant to show so much skin. "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," Miley said in a statement. "I never intended for any of this to happen, and I apologize to my fans, who I care so deeply about."

In the VF article though, Miley sang a different tune. She said the photo accompanying the story is "really artsy. It wasn't in a skanky way.... And you can't say no to Annie. She's so cute. She gets this puppy-dog look and you're like, O.K."

The Disney Channel, which airs Miley's hit show Hannah Montana, defended their star over the weekend. "Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines," a spokesperson told Entertainment Tonight.

Vanity Fair says there was no ulterior motive. ""Miley's parents and/or minders were on the set all day," the magazine counters. "Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley." Vanity Fair told ET, "In fact, when [writer] Bruce Handy interviewed Miley, he asked her about the photo and she was very cheerful about it and thought it was perfectly fine."

And now Annie Leibovitz herself is weighing in on the photo she took. "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."

Click here to see the Vanity Fair photos discussed on NBC's Today show.

Read more: Are Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus Letting Her Be The New Lolita?

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ok look...i am a fan of miley's an her new hit "party in the usa" an no, she DID NOT cross the line!!! it is jus a little picture..you see them on the tv all the time.. its not a big deal..people are jus makin it one.. <3love yooh miley!!:)
-- Anonymous

is miley pregnat?
-- stephanie

hey hannah
-- zandrea jaden carter

Hey Lover Boy you are a perverted ass wipe.
-- Protecter of all children.

Star Magazine is just another one of those behind the scenes PEDEPHILES. And the disney channel is BLOCKED in my home. Because Walt Disney was an anti semite. No I am not Jewish, but bigotry is unacceptable. Thats why you didn't post my first comment. I read all the other comments that Star Magazine found acceptable to print and most of them where from perverts. What does that say about Star Magazine? It says to me we print only perverted comments but not those of MORALITY. You Suck.
-- Protecter of all children.

SHE IS A 15 YEAR OLD CHILD. EXPOSED TO A FILTHY ADULT INDUSTRY WERE NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS. IF DADDY HAD MORALS HE WOULD BE THERE AT THE PHOTO SHOOT. INSTEAD OF PROBABLY BEING AT IS OWN PHOTO OPP. I WOULD SCAN EVERY PICTURE AND LOOK TO SEE WHAT MY 15 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER IS WEARING. OR NOT WEARING.
-- Protecter of all children.

She is so hot. She can take those pics a little farther.

-that's what I would say if I was a perv.
-- lover boy

You people in america are such prudes. You all have your heads up your ass or your head in the sand. Wake up and grow up.
-- swizzle stick

so what if she did so what its non of peoples bisnes what she dus
-- rafael herrera

ok thers nothing to judg she has her life and you do to so live her alone
-- rafael herrera

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