Miley Cyrus: a common sense approach

So the world is crazy for Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana. She is the new Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Brittany Spears, and Lindsey Lohan. Her persona is sought to be pure and young. How many times have we seen this though? Its the same old script that goes like this:

- Young girl star who sings
- Booming popularity
- put in movies
- actress turns 18
- controversial pictures or stories start coming out
- actress denies
- months pass
- more controversy OR the actress seeks to destroy her little girl image by putting out racy pictures
- actress life is trashed and scrutinized
- actress disappears

You'd think people would catch on, not to mention the actress themselves! Now comes the leak of Vanity Fair pictures of Miley Cyrus in semi-nude poses. She has apologized and says she is embarrassed over them. Embarrassed Miley? You sat in the picture studio with your parents and had numerous pictures taken of you in racy poses. Did you think they were only taking pictures of your face? Did your dad??? The whole "I didn't know" card rings hollow.

The sad part is that again, someone that middle school and tween-agers modeled their lives after, are again taught a lesson that they have to be seductive to be normal like Miley. Students in those ages are so impressionable. don't think an apology is going to somehow erase the images put in students heads.

On top of this, how does Vanity Fair get a pass on this? The girl is 15!!! How can you not hold them and their photographer accountable for near-child porn? We wonder why there is a growing problem with pedophilia? Could it be how we have been presenting child stars? How does Vanity Fair get a pass on this?

The one thing that sticks out in every case of this is the destruction of a good girl image. It seems the actresses need to attack the mold that they are put in. Many times they try to do it in private (and then photos or stories leak out), but since they are so public, they eventually are in the news. Also, when they turn 18 years old, they have this need to be in sleazy movies or go out partying. It is stunning again that this pattern isn't seen. What is wrong with being a good girl? What is wrong with innocence and purity? When you live in Hollywood, I guess you are a rarity.