Miley Cyrus was slowly inching away from her Disney Channel persona when she posed topless for Vanity Fair in 2008.
The magazine photoshoot by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz occurred when the “Hannah Montana” star was just 15, which shocked the world.
Cyrus, now 30, looked back on the backlash she received from the fashion spread in her “Used To Be Young” miniseries on TikTok recently.
“Everybody knows the controversy of the photo but they don’t really know the behind-the-scenes, which is always much more meaningful,” she said.
The image featured the “Flowers” crooner wearing jeans and holding a white sheet over her chest.
Her dark hair seemed windblown and she only sported red lipstick. In another shot, her father Billy Ray Cyrus, was photographed alongside her.
Cyrus went on about the backstage work that was going on as she was being profiled for the pop culture publication.
“My little sister Noah was sitting on Annie’s lap and actually pushing the button of the camera taking the pictures,” Cyrus explained.
She added that her “family was on set” as she was filming and the photo shoot was “the first time I ever wore red lipstick, because Pati Dubroff, who did my makeup, thought that that would be another element that would divide me from ‘Hannah Montana.’”
The “Last Song” actress noted that the image of herself was “a complete opposite of the bubblegum pop star that I had been known for being, and that’s what was so upsetting.”
“But really, really brilliant choices looking back now from those people,” she pointed out.
Fury from parents of young children fired up America, with many fuming over Cyrus’ decision to appear underaged in all her semi-nude glory.
One of the New York Post’s covers at the time even blasted her, with the headline reading “MILEY’S SHAME.”
She then apologized for posing provocatively shortly after the photos were released.
“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,” Cyrus sighed. “I never intended for any of this to happen, and I apologize to my fans, who I care so deeply about.”
But in 2018, the “We Can’t Stop” singer retracted her regret, tweeting next to a photo of The Post’s cover, “IM NOT SORRY F–k YOU #10yearsago.”
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