Miley Cyrus is revealing beforehand unknown particulars a couple of controversial nude shoot she took half in again in 2008.
The Vainness Truthful shoot, shot by Annie Leibovitz, set off a firestorm of protection and backlash towards the then-15-year-old singer.
“Everyone knows the controversy of the photo, but they don’t really know the behind-the-scenes, which is always much more meaningful,” Cyrus, now 30, stated in a reflective video for a TikTok collection on behalf of her new tune, “Used To Be Young.”
“My little sister, Noah, was sitting on Annie’s [Leibovitz] lap and actually pushing the button of the camera, taking the pictures,” the singer stated of the shoot day. My household was on set.”
“And this was actually the first time I ever wore red lipstick,” she stated, earlier than explaining the importance of the second. “Because Pati Dubroff, who did my makeup, thought that would be another element that would divide me from Hannah Montana.”
“This image of me is a complete opposite of the bubblegum pop star that I had been known for being,” Cyrus added within the video clip. “And that was what was so upsetting. But really, really brilliant choices ― looking back now ― from those people.”
Shortly after the images have been launched, Cyrus apologized for participating within the photograph shoot and stated she felt “embarrassed.”
“My goal in my music and my acting is always to make people happy,” the “Hannah Montana” star stated in a press release to Folks journal on the time. “For Vanity Fair, I was so honored and thrilled to work with Annie [Leibovitz]. I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed.”
The Disney Channel additionally launched a press release on the time, telling Those that “a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines.”
A rep for Vainness Truthful and Leibovitz issued a launch in response to Disney’s account, telling The New York Occasions that “Miley’s parents and/or minders were on the set all day.”
“Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley,” the spokeswoman added.
Ten years after the shoot, Cyrus had modified her tune on apologizing for the images in query.
“IM NOT SORRY,” the “Last Song” actor tweeted in 2018, alongside a canopy of the New York Publish, which learn “MILEY’S SHAME.”
“Fuck YOU,” Cyrus added, with the hashtag #10yearsago.
