Cyrus Criticized for Pose With Father

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Posted: 2008-04-29 13:49:00
(April 29) - Miley Cyrus has said she's embarrassed for appearing in a provocative pose in this month's issue of Vanity Fair. But some are criticizing her more for the photo she hasn't appeared to apologize for.

A shot of Cyrus posing with father Billy Ray irked Howard Stern, who couldn't hold back on his satellite radio show Monday.

"The picture disturbs me. It looks like his daughter is his girlfriend. He's trying to be hot," Stern said. Miley Outtakes, Video and More at Vanity Fair

"He's got to be incredibly grateful but angry about her success," he continued. "Here's a guy who had one hit. And then the cat disappeared. I don't think he had much going on. Then he has this kid and turns her into a showbiz kid. So then the kid goes into show business and becomes a megastar and he's like oh F---. He's sort of the guy who hangs on."

"That daughter of his is the only thing between him and going on 'The Surreal Life," chimed in Stern sidekick Artie Lange.

Stern imagined what was going on in Billy Ray's head. "She's my Frankenstein and I'm entitled so some of her scratch and lifestyle," he said.

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Criticism of the photo hardly stopped there. "I think it's just flat-out weird," Ruth Peters, a clinical psychologist and contributor to Today said. "It's very inappropriate. You can't play it both ways. You can't be daddy's little girl like a five, six or seven-year-old and be cuddled up in daddy's arms and then come on half-naked with a sheet across you. You have to go one way or another in the message you are trying to send."

"I think we need to look at the fact that these were taken with the intention of being artistic. I think they were trying to create something beautiful with a famous photographer." Joanna Saltz, an editor of Seventeen says.

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Joy Behar has similar thoughts she expressed on Monday's 'View.' "The one with her father is kind of weird. I can just picture my father and me sitting like that," she joked.

There also continues to be backlash at the adults who let the shoot of Cyrus to go so far. "Of course she is embarrassed," Jamie Lee Curtis writes on The Huffington Post.

"She is a young girl. She shouldn't have to deal with any of this," continues Curtis. "I don't feel that she was duped. I know the integrity of Ms. Leibovitz and the magazine and I know there were people present at the shoot that should have been looking out to make sure that this didn't happen."

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smat0293 08:50:20 AM Jul 08 2008

i think that some of the pictures may have been inappropriate and dissapointing but everyone makes mistakes and that's just a part of life she learned from them

ppd343 02:14:54 AM May 27 2008

Yea, I know this is stupid..

Here is a site on it, it I dunno..

http://mileycyrusvanityfair.net

sweetcookie2c 05:54:57 PM May 20 2008

I think she is just beautiful. my 12yr old daughter is a daddy's girl too. she loves to sing
and write songs. theres nothing wrong with a good personal photos for
personal family albums. These just happen to get into the wrong hands.
shame on those doin that to our loved miey!
We love you Miley!!
Haven and Kristyn P.

briannamichael05 06:32:04 AM May 16 2008

miley cyrus is headed in the right direction shes a ***** like the rest of

them in hollywood, until i get to the bottom my daughter dont watch that shit...

**** miley, she needs to learn how to act.....shes apig

psycho9625 12:37:27 PM May 11 2008

there getting the publicity that they want

psycho9625 12:37:02 PM May 11 2008

kinda kool

TheRebelSaint1 04:48:49 AM May 11 2008

bareshoney:

You're ignorance is astounding. That can happen, where they protecting her and one parnet is molesting her.

lexiecoupe 04:40:08 AM May 11 2008

Maybe, Miley and her dad didn't really realize how it would look. They are father and daughter. They probably don't think of each other in that manner. Maybe it was not as obvious to them as it was to the people who have seen the add. In addition, we do have to take thier celebrity status into consideration. Pretty much every move they make will be under great suspect and scrutiny. If the media so much as smell a rat they will do everything they can to "expose" the situation with maximum coverage for all it's worth. I'm not really a fan of either Billy Ray or Miley. The story has just caught my attention because I think the mass meda battering of a young girl at the height of her career and super star status could be devastating to her future, mental stability, and overall general well being. I have to say I really believe in Cognitive Labeling Theory. If you tell her she will be like britney for long enough sooneror later she will be like britney not to mention the media as well as pe

lexiecoupe 04:39:38 AM May 11 2008

Maybe, Miley and her dad didn't really realize how it would look. They are father and daughter. They probably don't think of each other in that manner. Maybe it was not as obvious to them as it was to the people who have seen the add. In addition, we do have to take thier celebrity status into consideration. Pretty much every move they make will be under great suspect and scrutiny. If the media so much as smell a rat they will do everything they can to "expose" the situation with maximum coverage for all it's worth. I'm not really a fan of either Billy Ray or Miley. The story has just caught my attention because I think the mass meda battering of a young girl at the height of her career and super star status could be devastating to her future, mental stability, and overall general well being. I have to say I really believe in Cognitive Labeling Theory. If you tell her she will be like britney for long enough sooneror later she will be like britney not to mention the media as well as pe

eldewolf 02:47:03 AM May 11 2008

I found it interesting that your story led off with the words 'Renowned photographer Annie Liebowitz.....' As a photographer myself,I have followed her career for years---More accurately the headline SHOULD have read...
" Renowned DYKE Annie Liebowitz------" It does not surprise me that she would be so anxious to photograph a young girl in such a sensuous layout,especially with her famous father.It brings to mind the work of Mapplethorpe,well known for his photographs of men having **** ***,and of the shot of the crucifix in a jar of urine......

bareshoney 02:08:08 AM May 11 2008

Howare Sterm is a ----ing perv who is jealous that he isn't the one in the photos and getting the attention! Billy Ray didn't have a string of #1 hits but he did have several really good songs. What has Howare Sterm had?

As for Marie Osmond, she claims that her parents were on the sets all of the time when she was working. She has also claimed that she was molested while she was working and that is why she has such depression and other problems today. Well she can't have it both ways. Did little MISS HOLIER THAN THOU get molested or was mommy and daddy there and protected her at every dark shadow that went boo in the night? She might want to remember that when she is point a finger at someone, that she has three pointing back at herself.

Miley is 15. She is not a child. Nor is she a woman. She will make the same mistakes that every 15 year old girl is going to make. She needs guidance not a bunch of hypocrites who are trying to further thier agenda's. If she is being inapp

SothrnbellnNorth 01:01:30 AM May 11 2008

As a mother of teenage and adult children with whom I show much affection, I found this show of affection to be age inappropriate. Is this going to teach her that it's okay for a young man to touch her thighs and for her touch his? Do they not know where that can lead? She's a fully developed young woman now and her daddy needs to respect that.

Themilitantpoet 12:44:53 AM May 11 2008

I think perhaps the photo may have gone just a tad too far, the hands being placed provocativly on her inner thigh does push the elvelope a little.
But that being said I think you old fish wives need to find something relevant to harp about. It pushed the envelope "a little" this is hardly the riskiest teen photo I have seen and if you choose to spend your time whining about this, then perhaps your husband needs to cheat on you with some hot young intern. Then you could satisfy your aweful need for drama with a real life scandel of your own.
-Az

bneel520 10:59:42 PM May 10 2008

I think Annie Leibovitz does not know how th shoot phots of young girls, she shcold go back to shooting nudes of the ****** of Hollywood.It is for sure she does not know how to photo young girls.The topless shot was in poor taste as was the shots with Mileys father. Annie should be ashamed of herself.....FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER---HA HA...............

lil2coupe 10:17:04 PM May 10 2008

If people would start loving their own families and stop worrying about those who have great relationships, we would all be better off...there's no scandal here at all...good grief...get over yourselves.

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