I have a tween who watches her shows and listens to radio Disney so she can hear her.

Teenagers have hormones and go through changes but we would like them to do this AFTER age 18.....no such luck.

I think she should have waited until she was an "adult" to attempt such a photo.

Disney is very much geared toward the tweens and younger and they don't yet have the mental faculty (mens raya) to understand the consequences of it.

Role models need to temper their activities to fit this. As the saying goes "With priveledge comes specific obligation" and being proper is one of them.

Disney is not playing her songs on their channel as much either and I think this is to give them time to figure this out as well.

I also wonder about pediphiles (the whole FLDS thing got me thinging about that ) and this picture.

Save sexy until you are beyond 18.

My daughter by the way, was shocked over it.

I think Osmond is correct. They get frozen in a "wholesome kid" stereotype and they have to go to the other extreme to break that....sad.

I think once again the media is making a mountain out of a molehill! I don't hear any of her fans or their parents making a big fuss about these pictures. Sure they are racy but look at what tweens and teens deal with and watch now a days. PLEASE don't hound this to death on 360! It's just not 360 newsworthy material.

Either I'm incredibly stupid or something because I don't get the fuss. I don't get where this photo is considered sexy. she's a young girl with a bare back and if she were on a beach in any type of swimsuit, she would be far more exposed than in this picture.

Maybe thr problem isn't with Miley or the media, maybe it's people who see sexiness in everything and everyone. I don't see this as a scandal. Just my opinion!

That photo of her posing with her dad was weird; but hey, apparently its common for tweens & teens to do pics like that.

What is this garbage doing on this blog?

My nieces (4 and 6) don't exactly read Vanity Fair as part of the nighttime story ritual. You're making mountains out of molehills here. Miley Cyrus took a photo with one of the greatest photographers out there doing the work. At least her parents approved and watched. Teen girls today (not all) take almost nudes of themselves and send them to boys they like on their cellphones. Maybe that's the filth you should be covering and worrying about instead of a professional shoot done by a professional photographer with parental permission and supervision. I don't know. Just a bit of perspective here. BTW, I mentioned Vanity Fair to the 15-year olds I teach, and they said who? They obviously don't read the magazine. They had no clue what it even was. And if they are like average teens I'm not sure what the fuss is over this publication and those photos anyway.

I must be really out of touch, I didn't even know Teen Magazine had a centerfold!

"I don’t get where this photo is considered sexy. she’s a young girl with a bare back and if she were on a beach in any type of swimsuit, she would be far more exposed than in this picture."

It's because the picture says "I'm vulnerable – come and get me." Not good to say when you are 15 and you know old me are out there saying "Ok!! I'm coming!"

I just don't get why she makes so much money. Man, I could use some of that!

I'm sure because she is so famous and so rich it made waves among her fans (and their parents).

Everyone makes mistakes and it certainly isn't a mistake that is going to damage her for the rest of her life. I'm sure it just put more money in the bank.

Oh rich people, rich people

It's not just you, Christina. All she's showing is her back - not even cleavage. For goodness sake, everyone has a back and it's hardly sexual. People need to stop making any inch of bare skin sexual and/or scandalous and just get over it already.

Leave Miley alone. I have seen
worst in teen fashion mags.

She would show more than that going to the beach or water park. First everybody wants to know you, then when you show part of yourself people complain. Donny Osmond is right being he was a teen idol as well, if he don't know about it no one does. My 10 year old out grew her and her style of music, she's still one of the better role models out there. Don't stamp out a good thing. Just hope she doesn't fall apart and knows when to hold and fold em.

This is much ado about nothing.The loudest voices seem to be from the dirty old Christian men who see sex in everything they lear at.

Journey wrote:

"All she’s showing is her back — not even cleavage."

That will no doubt change in the not-too-distant future.

Makes one think the FLDS folks had a point.

I think we just witnessed the birth of another Britney!

If anybody knows the in's and out's of the tween celebrity world, it would be Donnie Osmond. Miley should hire him as her advisor.

Jolene, St. Joseph, MI

I think with all around news that the media blows everything out of water as usual.

At least she wears panties in public- unlike former tween queen Ms. Britney.

The problem isn't with Miley. it is with sick twisted people who want to see sex anytime a photo shows a little bit of skin. People, and I mean frustrated women and men who are afraid they will be seen as perverts, who made such a big deal of this photo.

CNN has hot an all-time low with this trash!

I did not see anything wring with the picture which has everyone up in arms. My friends and I took racier pictures when we were her age and that was a few decades ago. Cyrus has nothing to be ashamed or embarrased about. The media is the one feeding this firestorm, not the fans.

P.S.

It is "mens rea", not "mens raya" and it means "guilty mind", not "mental faculty"

I think that Miley was being primed for her new fans; young men over the age of 20. I honestly have to wonder why her managers, fahter and herself would feel the need to have such photos done when she was doing great as a Disney kid.

I have to say, and I am NOT a parent, I would not let my 15 year old have such pictures taken. They are too adult in nature.

This is a good story subject, however, because I feel many parents struggle with the coming of age of their teenage daughters and what is appropriate and inappropriate behavior for them. This is a rockier time for daughters than sons.

Miley has been a great role model. I think she still is. I do not think a mere picture will override her values and character. Although Spears and Lohan were Disney kids, they were not of the same substance as Miley is. Spears was french kissing women on stage as part of musical acts, Miley has never done this although she is in the same age range as Spears. Spears dressed differently and had much less parental influence in her life, as did Lohan.

Osmond Characterizes it well when he states, " your image becomes cryogenically frozen into a specific stereotype. Within three to five years, Miley will have to face adulthood. Fans grow up, and their youthful interests quickly dissolve."

All these idols have gone through this, and while none have survived, I have faith that Miley will.

First I thought Britney revisted. Then I woke up. You see more with a typical swimsuit then you do with that photo. Not to mention I give her parents credit for being a little more grounded than that. I highly doubt Billy Ray or his wife are going to let their little girl slip into teen pornography.
All I can think is it was a slow week in the entertainment world. Aren't Brad and Angelina up to something?

Two words: "She's fifteen."

Kristen, you wrote: "Cyrus is definitely in damage control and has publicly stated she wants to make up for this mistake."

How about "she's a decent kid who is mature beyond her years in realizing that she's a role model for young girls, and as such, has a responsibility for controlling the image that is presented of her."

I wish the media was as mature.

If she (and her parents) are apologizing for anything, I'm betting it's the fact that they didn't check out Ms. Leibovitz's previous work. If I was a parent, I wouldn't want anyone asking my 15 year old daughter to strip down to a satin drape and bare her body in the name of "art". That's ok for adults, Miley is a child.

The fact that Miley is "apologizing" for "her mistake" means her parents raised her right. If anyone made a mistake, it was Vanity Fair, in not setting limits – no sexual objectification of children, even if it looks like art.

Leibovitz and Mapplethorpe have alot in common. Artistically, they're both brilliant, but many feel they both crossed the line as to how they portray the children they photographed.

One man's art is another man's pornography. We shouldn't be subjecting children to our "artistic vision".

Miley and her family have gone above and beyond "decent" in accepting responsibility for this mess. It can't be easy having everyone look at your every little last move (and having a whole industry profit off of the commodity you've become).

Leave her alone and drop it. Britney was supposedly a pretty good kid until we ruined her.

i have heard all the crap about miley being a terrible role model and all the other stuff over the years. people have tried to force miley to live the life society sees fit, forgetting that she's just a teenage girl. tell me, what teenage girl past, present, future has never done any of the things that miley has done. fact is every teenage girl has done somthing that miley has done. the key word we need to remeber is teenager. i have seen her so called pole dancing video. in no way shape or form was that even close to being a pole dance. people saying that it is are 100% stupid. they need to shut up and go take notes on what a pole dance looks like. all miley did was just hold on to the pole while she was pushed across the stage. she didn't grind on it, swing on it. she has done nothing wrong with her whole life. she is in fact a good role model. but she's also trying to be a typical teenage girl who just wants to do typical teenage girl stuff.