Miley Shyly, Not Smiley, Over Wily Topless Shots

You'd think that after coming face-to-cervix with Britney's and Lohan's ham tunnels, we'd maybe be a little jaded about a vaguely "sexy" picture of a teen starlet. You'd think that, but you'd think wrong, because apparently a brou-ha-ha is brou-ing over some topless shots of Hannah Montana that appear in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. In the accompanying article, Miley Cyrus says,

ìI think itís really artsy. It wasnít in a skanky way.Ö And you canít say no to Annie. Sheís so cute. She gets this puppy-dog look and youíre like, O.K.î

However, now that the mag is out, Miley isn't singing a happy song (lookit that clever play on words. We learned that from Star!):

ìI was so honored and thrilled to work with Annie [Leibovitz]. I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ëartisticí and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed.î

Disney's statement:

ìUnfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines.î

Oh, kind of like how a fifteen-year-old is manipulated into selling lunch boxes and Trapper Keepers and $1000 concert tickets? Yeah, kind of like that. Anyway, we don't really see the big deal about the pictures. She's showing 1/3 of her back. The last time the public got this worked up over so little skin, it was in 1906, when Gibson Girl model Hattie Mae Brunfield went to the nickelodeon sans swan-bill corset and with a sleeve rolled up to bare one delicate, ivory elbow. And lo, how we swooned with outrage!