Is anyone else seriously disturbed by the type of media attention Miley Cyrus receives? Not all of the media attention, but the content of it? Just today, on perezhilton.com, she was the face to the headline "STD's Rife Among American U.S. Teenage Girls," in which Perez goes on to refer to her as a skank. Seriously, an adult man writing an internet blog about the sex life of a fifteen-year-old -- usually this is the stuff we hear about on "To Catch a Predator," but because she's a star, it's okay? I love my celebrity gossip, Us Weekly is my guilty pleasure, and I have very little sympathy for stars who whine about the paparazzi chasing them -- most of them have their managers notify the papparazzi as to where they'll be, just so they can stay photographed and relevant -- but when it comes to the way female child stars are being written about and perceived, it creeps me out. Back when Ryan Gosling and Britney Spears were on the Disney channel, they dressed like kids, acted like kids, and were mostly watched by kids. We never saw them wearing Valentino to the Oscars -- they got to be child stars, for child viewers. What message are we sending to the little girls who worship her as Hannah Montana, but then see her befriending train-wreck Lindsay Lohan, wearing couture, and sporting loads of make-up and dyed hair? What is the hurry to thrust this young girl into the world of adults? Let her get her driver's license first, maybe even reach the old age of eighteen before speculating on her sex life, Pervy Perez.
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The thing that freaks me out about Miley is that she doesn't act like a 15 year old: she either tries to overdo it (as in her dress to the Oscars) or play down her age by talking about slumber parties and pillow fights and puppies. She's 15, not 10 and not 30, and I think she should be given a chance to act that age without having to play into her public persona (which obviously will never happen). Having said that, I think that what's happened to her pales in comparison to what happened with Ali Lohan, Lindsay's sister, because there are at least moments when Miley comes across as her age.
But if you've seen pictures of Ali Lohan, she's 14 going on 45 (she legitimately looks older than Lindsay) and has recently spoken to the press about how much she wants to become famous. Seeing what happened to Lindsay, I don't really understand why she would be so eager to bypass her youth and move straight into stardom but I guess that's the inevitable consequence of having Dina Lohan as your mother/exploiter.
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