Biel…I don’t know. And then I think she came back to the show in the last year, or something. I don’t know. LoL. I never liked 7th Heaven. I mean, I think I thought it was kind of interesting when I was 17, but I wasn’t a big fan. And then I was just annoyed by it. They canceled it and brought it back – that just isn’t fair! Why does 7th Heaven get 76 years on the air and our poor Veronica Mars could only get 3?

And a lot of good it did for Biel… didn’t it take her another three years before she was out?

Dale – You make a good point. I think we should appreciate artistic photos of bodies. I think the main issue, for most, is that she’s only 15.

Ali – You are so right to point that out about Annie and the way she takes photos. Grah!

Gina – I see what you are coming from. Sometimes we do things and we think they won’t be a big deal – and then when it blows up we have regrets. Although, even if Hannah Montana fans wouldn’t read Vanity Fair normally – some might have sought it out to see their idol. So that would be the parents job to keep it away from them. But should a 15 year old girl be in the magazine taking those photos? I think she’s still a little too young to know if she really wanted those photos done. It might have seemed like a good idea then, but it didn’t even take a couple years before she was having those regrets.

The Jessica Biel thing is interesting – Biel did that purposefully so that she would get out of her contract and to get off the show. I think she was desperate.

It’s VANITY FAIR. If your kids are reading it, Miley in a blanket isn’t the worst thing they’ll be seeing.

In fact, because society is such a big pot of media whores, they posted the pics on places outside of Vanity Fair readers. I honestly don’t think many of the Hannah Montanna fans would’ve seen these pics if it wasn’t on your evening or morning news.

Besides, Jessica Biel did something way worse when she 17. She posed nude (tho the finished results were left to the imagination) for Maxim mag with her dad at the shoot. No, she’s not a Disney folk, but her show at the time would’ve fit right in. And funny thing about her is, we haven’t really seen anything racy since then… I don’t know, I’m not a big Biel fan so I could be wrong.

Anyhoo. Of freakin’ course this was carefully planned. This girl’s every act is meticulously crafted by Disney Imagineers.(tm)

But yes, I think you are spot on with the Evil Genius theory. I would never have known about this nor seen the photo if not for the hysterical attention it’s been given. Vanity Fair, Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Annie Liebowitz, AND Disney Corp. have all gotten tons of free advertising for this.

Otherwise it makes no sense. How can you be in a photo shoot and have everybody agree on photos to be in a PRINTED magazine, which takes time to set up and print, and then have everyone feign ignorance of the effects it was going to have?

I’d rather it weren’t such a big deal though. We need to be able to enjoy the beauty inherent in our bodies without people thinking we’re pervs.