Miley Cyrus - banned by British moms
Do you have a Miley Cyrus fan in your house? I sure do. Mine loves her music, her style and her television show. She knows Cyrus' favorite color, the names of her pets and every word to all of her songs. What she doesn't know is that her idol has a very bad habit of behaving inappropriately in front of cameras, leading to embarrassing photos splashed across the Internet. She doesn't know this because I don't allow her to surf the Web on her own. She doesn't Google and she doesn't click anywhere without asking first.Because she is only seven and completely unaware of what Miley is getting up to in her spare time, I haven't found it necessary to address the situation. I am not sure how she would react if I were to suddenly ban any and all things Miley from our house, but that is exactly what some moms are doing. According to Fox News, some British parents have had enough of the pop star's provocative posing and are boycotting her merchandise. Moms interviewed at a London Disney store say they "feel she is now of an unsuitable nature for a 15-year-old megastar."
I agree. Her behavior is unsuitable for her younger fans. But Miley herself is a teenager and kind of doing what teenagers do - physically maturing and dealing with her burgeoning sexuality. She just happens to be doing it in a very inappropriate and public way.
If banning her from my house would somehow make Miley realize the error of her ways, I would do it. But we all know that isn't going to happen. So I guess I will have to do the next best thing. If and when the time comes that I have to explain what Miley Cyrus is doing posing for the camera wearing nothing but a wet t-shirt and a come-hither look, I will just tell the truth: she's making a fool of herself.
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EmmaJ 7-24-2008 @ 10:33AM
This picture of Miley is of her showering after swimming. Yes, Miley is a teenager and is going through some of the same things that my fifteen year old daughter is going through. I actually am impressed that she chose to wear a t-shirt over her white swim suit. Those who look at innocent photos like this and see something sexual need to get their head out of the gutter. If people didn't view this as provocative it wouldn't be.
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rebecca Biernesser 7-24-2008 @ 1:04PM
What do people expect? She is a 15 year old child.
Children are crazy about her and while she has been lucky in what she wants to do, she is still a child and growing up, and parents need to wake up. Stop hiding the articles and headlines. The child are going to see or hear about it and wouldn't you rather hear about it from you? Instead of another child who you don't know and don't know the parents of that child?
Miley is not a role model, she is a 15 year old child (who got lucky), and maybe if parents paid more attention and became that parent and not the "friend", they could be the role models.
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lily 7-24-2008 @ 3:23PM
My niece loves Hannah Montana. NOT Miley Cyrus. There is a big difference. It’s a TV show. She is NOT real. Why do parents let their kids think these TV show actors are their character? I said this same type of thing a week or so ago about Jamie Lynn Spears. She is NOT Zoey. If you don’t want her to be a role model, don’t allow it in your home. You are the boss after all.
That photo is like EmmaJ said, she’s showering after swimming with a T over her suit. What’s with people who are always looking at things sexually?? I did so much worse than this poor girl at 15 going on 16. Can anyone tell us how “pure” you were then?
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lily 7-24-2008 @ 3:25PM
My niece loves Hannah Montana. NOT Miley Cyrus. There is a big difference. It’s a TV show. She is NOT real. Why do parents let their kids think these TV show actors are their character? I said this same type of thing a week or so ago about Jamie Lynn Spears. She is NOT Zoey. If you don’t want her to be a role model, don’t allow it in your home. You are the boss after all.
That photo is like EmmaJ stated, she’s showering after swimming with a T over her suit. What’s with people who are always looking at things sexually?? I did so much worse than this poor girl at 15 going on 16. Can anyone tell us how “pure” you were then?
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Ashlyn Nutty 7-27-2008 @ 7:00PM
she is not pregnant and nothing can make me believe that she is till i see her baby who ever wrote this article is a jerk and dosent know what there talking about... see Im on Mileys side.
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tobey james 7-28-2008 @ 3:48PM
Lighten up. Didn't you ever want people to think you were older when you were a teenager? Miley Cyrus is a teenager. I bet I can go through your picture album and find you and other young girls striking similar poses. She shows NOTHING! Wait until she does, if she ever does. Look at Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney's little sister.
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JJCBE 7-28-2008 @ 6:10PM
I myself am getting rather sick of Miley Cyrus. Yes, she is a teenager. Yes, she is fifteen. But then, so am I. And I have never taken that sort of picture, because I'm a Christian and I know it's wrong. I'm not saying that I'm perfect, but I do try. And I know a lot of people my age who do nothing of the sort either. Miley, on the other hand, goes on and on one day about how she is a believer and how she treasures her religion, and then the next day there are more scandalous photos.
If I come off as harsh, it’s because I have an eleven-year-old sister who is very into Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus. And you people above can say that that picture isn't sexual, but what about the other photos? There are plenty to choose from. Do we just wave those away because they didn't happen this month?
She made the choice to do this and be a role model for preteens. Now she needs to quit fooling around and step up to the responsibility of it.
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booo 7-28-2008 @ 4:53PM
aww i kind of agree with u she shud not take pics like that knowing that they would probably would be published but teens will be teens when u get down to it a little sexual yes but not revealing LIGHTEN UP!
Toni Sprague 8-11-2008 @ 9:20AM
My 7 year old had been a huge fan since the show started. We did the concert, the 3-D movie, posters, and she knew all the details from Tiger Beat or whatever she could find. When the photos came out (not the Vanity Fair ones which I could have handled, although I think her parents need better judgment, but the ones with her and the boyfriend in provocative poses and the bazillions of her pouting and trying to be sexy), I had a talk with dd and told her that there were some not-so-great photos of Miley around and we discussed it. She was mature enough to think for herself that Miley and her parents had posed her as a role model for all these young girls and that she isn't just a normal 15 year old, she should be held to a higher standard because girls are looking up to her. That's the price for all the millions she's got rolling in and it shouldn't be such a tough one. My daughter doesn't like that Miley has her own wing of the house to herself ("she's just 15 Mom!"), she doesn't like that she refers to being "sexy" in interviews, saying Sex and the City is her favorite show, or that she talked about her relationship with Nick the way she did. I think this has taught her to be more careful about choosing role models and it also shows her what kind of teenager she wants to be which is a valuable lesson. Dd is very modest and thinks Miley's skirts are way too short and I think that's great! She made the decision to de-Miley her room, I just gave her the information. Billy Ray Cyrus basically promised parents that he would keep a tight reign on Miley on Oprah, and then all this happens. Yes, she's a teenager, but as I said, I think the price she and her family have to pay for all the money we've all put in their pockets is to have to use better judgment for the sake of the little girls who love her so much. I don't want to make a big deal over it, I just don't think we need to make a big deal of her anymore. She doesn't deserve it.
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