15-year-old "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus appears semi-nude in Vanity Fair

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Annie Leibovitz took the photos of the 15-year-old partially covered with a sheet. Story here

What do we think?

Is Zoey from Zoey 101 Britney Spear's sister?

yes she is.

i don't know who any of these people are. don't watch disney anything.

Is she the one that got pregnant?

Exactly. I don't buy the magazine - never have but it made Breakfast news. Don't watch Hannah Montana either. But I do now know who Miley Cyrus is.

And I won't be the only one. 'tis clever but not exactly a shocker.

And a nice reminder of "Vanity Fair, we're cutting edge and radical we are"

Welcome to the modern world - young people as commodities .

How on earth did you find that site LL?

Anything for the money. Let's hope she doesn't end up like all the other "child" stars.

The parents in such cases are usually described as being 'supportive' as in 'My mum and dad are reeeeely supportive of me and my career'

Supportive in this sense presumably means money grasping idiots.

Well it's misguided and illegal in some states but not 'sick'. 15 is sexy for a lot of girls - and boys. We are not talking pre-pubeseant here and the pics are not explict.

And Natassica Kinski was up to much worse when she was 15..where's that predatory female thread....? That's a story and a half!

Vanity Fair is a great magazine.

Why is is sad MP?

well, hey, he could only live off 'achey breakey heart' for so long.

i think the pics are nice, but fgs she is 15! a child! this was seriously a mistake, a mistake for the photographer to take the pics, a mistake for her to pose and a mistake for her parents to allow it.

if she had been 18 or 21 or any age inbetween those twop then there wouldnt be this uproar.

btw i have no idea who she is, dd1 doesnt like hannah montana

BUt isn't it kind of normal for girls of 15 to pull sexy poses?

I'm not saying this was well advised, but I certainly don't think it's wrong.

There just seems to be a bit of a confusion about how we allow young girls to embrace andf enjoy their sexuality. We cannot protect women from men's thoughts can we?

Should we?

and she looks awful in the photos - semi-nudity or not

What is artistic about exploitation? The photographer, vanity fair and her parents should be ashamed.

disturbing.
if she were 15 and having fun with other 15 yr olds I wouldn't raise a brow but the thought of a 15 yr old being posed to look alluring is distasteful.

I don't know about her regretting it. She was notorious for stripping off beside public pools and swinging even then.

Why does it have to be one extreme or the other? She was either misguided or exploited? How is a 15 year old to explore their sexuality on their own terms without being judged by older women who think they know better?

By using a modicum of discretion so that we don't know about it?

I think that is how most people do it. I know it was how I did it.

Where are the other pics? I can only see the naked back one which is v v dubious imo.