Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair Cover–UPDATED
April 29, 2008 / 2:23 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier
This was my thought exactly when I saw the Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana cover for Vanity Fair:
Last night, I decided to show the Vanity Fair photo to my daughter, because I knew she’d eventually hear about it from friends. Her reaction was what I expected from a third grader. “Mom, she doesn’t look that good,’’ she told me.
I agree, but for different reasons. To my daughter, Ms. Cyrus just looks unkempt without the trademark cute clothes and hair she sports on the Disney show “Hannah Montana.” But to me, the photo of a 15-year-old wrapped in a bed sheet with tousled hair has a disturbing Lolita quality.
She looks like she’s just recovering post-sex from a vigorous romp in the bed. I think that image is exactly what Ms. Cyrus and probably her parents, too, were going for. They want Miley to grow up and growing up in Hollywood land means morphing from childlike innocence into slut.
At fifteen, fifteen!, Miley isn’t a little girl anymore, but is she this image? It just feels wrong.
UPDATE: Commenter Jeff sees this:
