In the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar, Miley Cyrus defends the 2008 Vanity Fair Magazine shoot, where she appeared loosely wrapped in a bed sheet.
Posed naked and wrapped in a sheet for legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz, the shots caused a stir two years ago when they were published in VF, with many adults wondering how Miley’s parents could have allowed the child star to appear in such a shoot. Miley, now 17, says her family still doesn’t understand what all the fuss was about.
“Here, my parents are thinking they’re seeing a beautiful picture by a major photographer, and the people of America want to see something dirty in that?” she says. “It doesn’t make sense to us because [my family] doesn’t look for negativity. But people don’t want to say, ‘What a great performance’ or, ‘What a great shot’. No-one wants to look at something like that and see the positive because it doesn’t sell a magazine.”