Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana, Destiny Hope - whatever you want to call her, this celebriteen is having a serious identity crisis and a serious problem with leaked photos.
Another batch of supposedly racy Miley pics have hit the Web. You may remember the 15-year-old star’s first photographic scandal, where she was caught in some so-called “suggestive” poses with another teenage girl. The star was quick to defend herself against speculation that she is a lesbian, saying of the pics, “They’re nothing bad!”
In truth, the pics actually were nothing more than a few teenage girls getting giggly at a sleepover and taking some awkward stabs at sex appeal, as all teenage girls do. No biggie, so we promptly forgot about Miley’s naughty ways.
But now, she’s back on film again, and this time the pics are a little more scandalous. Miley is seen in one pic exposing her bra suggestively, and in another draping her half-clad self across the lap of a teenage boy (who probably hasn’t been that excited since he found his first chest hair).
The press are poised to crucify Miley as a terrible role model, completely unlike her good girl Hannah Montana image. She’s being pegged as the next Britney – too young, too much pressure to be sexy, and all of it way too soon. Will it turn out to be another case of good girl gone bad?
In our opinion (and we have our former teenage girl status to back us up), Miley is pretty much just a normal girl trying to figure out what it means to be pretty /sexy /likeable, and well…liked. These latest pics are just another attempt at achieving those things, and are no worse than anything you’d find on a regular 15-year-old’s MySpace page. It just so happens that Miley’s page is the entire world.
We have to remember, Britneys aren’t born, they’re made. And we’re the ones who make them. In Miley’s case, the embarrassment of having the pictures turn up is enough; she certainly doesn’t need the extra pressure of defending herself for going through what every other teenager probably goes through. Hannah Montana is just an image, Miley Cyrus is a person, and even worse, she's a teenager.
So maybe while Miley works on growing up, the media should too. And it should stop looking for scandals where none exist, because we don’t need to push another young celebrity over the edge. One Britney is enough.