Jamie Lee Curtis: I Wish Miley’s Parents Protected Her
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who recently herself got into some controversy for posing “topless” for AARP magazine, weighs in on Miley Cyrus’s semi-topless scandal with Vanity Fair. Here’s an excerpt from her opinion piece:
When these young people get all dressed up for award show red-carpet events don’t we all comment how beautiful, stunning and grown-up they look in their strapless/backless dresses and heels and tousled hair? None of this is new. None of this should be news. But it is news because it is a business. It is all Business. It is called Show Business. Show Abyss-ness! I call it Show-OFF Business. You throw a child onto the jaws of a business and they will get eaten.
I know how Miley feels. I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless “scandal” and the subsequent parodies, but I am an adult woman. I protected myself during the shoot and I can take the heat. I only wish that her guardians had protected her.
To read the Jamie Lee Curtis full post about Miley, visit HuffingtonPost.com.

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Miley Cyrus is a freak! I already knew that before she took the pictures… now shes just proving my point even more… for people who say she was young and didnt know what she was doing…. PUH-LEEZ!!! she knew EXACTLY what she was doing…. shes not kid friendly what soever….. parents should not let there kids watch her….
Yahoo just posted this today and allowed comments at first then pulled them. Interesting. So, I’ll say the same thing here. Vanity Fair should be ashamed. They’ve taken advantage of a young girl and her family and are still running the photos just trying to put a different spin on it. They have no care for Miley and will do whatever they can get away with to make a buck. Disgusting.
Mileyy is crazyy I agree with Jamie Lee Curtis Her parents are crazy to agree with this shes only 15!
OK, all 15 yr old girls want to look sexy. That’s not the point. And of course she is going to lack good judgement about this. Surely any woman out there remembers being 15.
What I see here is a lot of adults who were either supposed to be looking out for her and failed.
15 is a difficult time for a teenage girl. She is still a child, no matter how sexy she can or wants to be/look. That is why she needs an adult with a level head looking out for her true best interests. These type photos and this type hype can cause her future emotional problems.
The photos would have been fine if she was 18 but not at 15.
good words of advice Jamie!! Miley, your awesome.. just stay stong.. and i ask for you to use your head… please. love you miley!! =]
Those of you saying she’s not showing too much skin so it’s not a big deal, are really ignorant. It’s not a matter of how much skin she’s showing, it’s how suggestive the pictures are. You can take nude photos and not be suggestive. Yes, Miley could’ve said no, but the parents are just despicable for allowing pictures like this to be taken of their 15 year old child.
What is the big deal? We are going through extremely high gas prices, over priced groceries, a war, etc… are you kiddin me? Why are we even giving this attention? Why are we worried about another person’s child? And is it really a big deal? Parents need to stop letting the TV raise their children and take care of your own child. Teach your child about the importance of voting, savings, credit, etc.. and not what hannah montana is doing and where her concert is. Come on people get real.
If we start worrying about ourselves and not everyone else, this world would be a little bit better.
Miley dont listen to this you said you were sorry i am 11 and i no alot of people say this but i am your biggest fan i dont watch Wizz of wave place i like your show i go on demand to watch new shows before they come on and i know all the words to all the songs I LOVE u miley dont listen to the crazy people it was a simple mistake anyone can make when there young just dont make the same mistake paris hilton biggest fan g mail me I LOVE U MILES
ITA WITH JLC….RIGHT ON!!
Those Miley Pica are out of order, and more than inappropriate. She is a Disney star, and a minor child….even i know that.
before this photo shoot there were many racy photos of her on the internet. she made more than one mistake, and you would think that she learned from it the first time…she’s not very bright for a 15 year old who can’t learn from her mistakes
I totally agree with JLC. Miley’s parents are to blame for this as she is a minor and should have protected her. MIley is to blame too as she should have said NO.
EROTIC
OMG THATS A CHILD
she dosent look erotic she looks vulnerable and ghostly the photo was meant to show that vulnerable innocent ghostly girl that she is
THANKS JAMIE LEE CURTIS
Sophie: i guess i sort of agree with her.
Mileys parents were there for most of the shot.. unfortunately.. as said they had to leave before the last shot was taken.. which was the one that has started this whole scandal thing. I think.. that it was planned !
They obviously tricked miley into believing that it would be ‘artistic’ + ‘beautiful’ but really they’re trying to set a bad image. besides did you know this shoot was February 8th. get some new news jared, this is old stuff, we all know now. she made a mistake.. move on already.
me: i thinks shes right (#16) i think they planned it so they can start a scandal about miley. and they tricked miley into thinking it was gonna be “artistic” and “beautiful” just so she can get in trouble with the press and get embarrassed. why would they do such a thing. mileys suppose to be a good role model but in return they turn her into a trouble maker! plus personally me and my friends dont even think the pic is so bad whens shes done she can just keep holding the blanket agenst her chest and go in her dressing room its not like they can see her half naked. So why its on the news and everything! Its like a step up for her so when she gets older she can get use to posing for that kind of pics. SO POEPLE SHUT UP! of u dont like her fine i guess your too old for her her music and shows r for like 9-12 year olds so if u watch disney idk why its a pre-teen show not a adult show.
omg would u just leave miley alone..shes done alot for y’all and noo ur jsut gonna disresect her =\
nooo thats how u roll.
GIVE MILEY MORE REPSECT
Miley has a mind of her own, and if her parents okay it….well, that is just none of anyone else’s damn business! If you don’t like it, don’t look at it!!!
It seems like after thw Walt Disney this company didn’t find somebody whose can work very well.
What is the name of this incompetent man whose is dirty director of Disney Company….ah! Michael Eisner and the oder stupid Steves Jobs.
I will give some idea for you!
Michael Eisner can found another Disney company.
PORNODISNEY !
Then my daghter and my young relatives will be free of all this young prostitute like Vanessa Hudgens and Miley Cyrus etc…
Michael Eisner it must be worse when thes young prostitute sleep with you or the another monster of their studios like directorVictor Salva whose abuse with a 10 years old boy…to have good place in their films.
Michael Eisner ….Please thow away all these garbage in house of your mother . Perhaps she can give good ideas for your future Pornographic enterprise.
I don’t understand why this should be such a scandal?
Everyone is more naked, when wearing a bikini. Its just a naked back.
I think there are going on more problems. She is only 15, behaves like an adult, looks most of the time like 20 years old and there are pictures in the public which are more disturbing. And there are these parents who are also in the public and who seem to like it and who remind me a lot of the spears parents and we know how this ended.
There is nothing bad about nudity, about funny pictures of teens but there is a problem when no adult seems to really care.
Oh, Please. Miley wants scandals! Or else she wouldn’t send up all these pictures. It’s desperate, really. Get a life, wannabe!
shut up Jamie Lee Curtis!! U don’t know Miley and as well as her parents, so U don’t have the right to tell things like that.
Jamie is right, Miley ’s guardians or in this case her parents must have done something during the photoshoot to safeguard their daughter. They should have not allowed anything that might have put their daughter in a bad light.
I agree completely! Hilary Duff wasnt doing topless photos at 15 yrs old when she was on Disney. I dont think shes even done one now at almost 21.
I feel like her parents want her to be famous so bad. Especially her mom. Her mom reminds me of Lohans mom.
I never imagined I’d be discussing Miley Cyrus. I must admit I only recently realized that Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana were the same person after hearing about someone wanting to hijack an airplane and fly it into a Hannah Montana concert. But I digress. I do feel the need to weigh in on this “controversy”.
Hannah Montana is product of Disney. Miley Cyrus is 15 going 16. People have a problem differentiated these two facts. So when Hannah Montana exhibits sexuality, people feel like their brand loyalty has been compromised. When Miley Cyrus exhibits her sexuality a nation’s anxiety about teenage sexuality is exposed.
This brings back memories of Britney Spears’ vow of virginity because she (or her creators) knew it would ruin her image. Next thing you know she’s marrying every man she has sex with, exposing her crotch, shaving her head, being put in a mental institution, and having her children taken away from her. I’m not suggesting one equals the other, but when people don’t let someone grow up, they don’t.
Let Miley Cyrus grow up.
Peace out.
Eli from blurbberry.com
Just goes to show. Keep your kids out of the entertainment industry.
You all with daughters are SO naive. If you think she is acting ANY worse than ANY 15 year old you are just stupid. Your kids going to church every Sunday and pledging their virginity are lying. How many of them have a cell phone with a camera? I’ll bet 90% of you parents have NO idea about how many high-school boys have your daughter naked on their cell phone. And God forbid your ignorance lets you tell me I am wrong. I am 16.5 and go to a school considered VERY conservative. Wake up America! You have made all of your daughters whores!
I think that they made a mistake they’re not fallible they’re human. I don’t understand why this got so much attention it wasn’t a topless picture done by a sleaze bag, in a back room somewhere this is ANNIE LEIBOVITZ she’s widely famous, and know for her “artiste” photos. Miley is a good roll model for girls, but I personally don’t encourage my girls to make role models after celebrities, as a mother of young girls, I prefer strong women who have change the world, and who are dead, I know what they have accomplished and most of the time, the skeletons in their closets. My point, stop complaining about others parenting skills, or the lack of, focus on your parenting skills, know your kids, love your kids, be there for your kids, they’ll love you for it, and you’ll love you for it.
Question JLC ? Didn’t YOU do a nude photo shoot? Telling women that they should be proud of their bodies no matter what your age. I can tell you that at 15 I certainly did not feel good enough about my my body to a picture like that. It’s contradictory to say “love your body,” but don’t look beautiful, don’t show it off, they may as well wear a long dress and join the LDS church. You are being naive check out, you-tube videos, and photos, stop pointing fingers at celebrities, and look at the majority of teenagers parents who fail miserably. We need to look with-in and not with-out at the problems with society.
Hmmm… I agree with JLC- she was ‘born” to famous parents’ and has been in the business forever- she’s credible…
I am more agitated about the photo with Miley stretched over her daddy’s lap than I am about the so-called “controversial” one… that one with her “daddy” gives me the creeps- I understand her family being close and all, but that photo is creepy- more boyfriend/girlfriend than father/daughter…
wow. OKAY. first of all, HER PARENTS DO PROTECT HER. second of all, SHE ISNT a BAD PERSON. leave miley cyrus a lone, seriously.
she isnt doing anything bad. godd.
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